I was asked by a customer to find the devices with excluded apps in C2R products such as Office 365 Proplus or Microsoft 365 Apps or Office 2019 etc.When you create a configuration file for C2R products such as office 365 proplus/Microsoft 365 Apps, you can define which app in Microsoft 365 Apps product not to be installed such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, or Skype. If you don't want Publisher installed with those applications, use the ExcludeApp element to remove itFollowing are the allowed values to be used in the configuration for Exclude App element.ID="Access" ID="Excel" ID="Groove" ID="Lync"…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Over the last couple of years, I have been using this method to extract the status messages for various components in Configuration Manager such as SMS provider, Site server and client. These status messages critical and useful when it comes to troubleshooting the components, clients etc. Status messages are similar to Windows NT Events and they have a severity, ID, description, etc. These status messages ID appear in lot of places like logs, event viewer,configuration manager console. During the troubleshooting, it is hard to find out the description for the status message ID that you looking for and not everything…
There are times where you need to troubleshoot the Microsoft Teams client issues such as app crashing, poor call quality, new features not working as expected, etc. When you get any of such issues, you will need to collect the team’s client logs to investigate further and if possible, you likely need to share the logs with the Microsoft support engineer for further help. There are different logs in Teams client that help you to troubleshoot the issue. The following are the important set of logs. Debug logs Media logs Desktop logs Event viewer As the teams client installed in…
Google has already announced the depreciation of the android enrollment using device administrator, for more information, please refer to https://developers.google.com/android/work/device-admin-deprecation and is highly encouraged to use Android enterprise for devices where GMS available. There is still a need to fallback to device admin in countries where there are no GMS available such as mainland China. If you don't have GMS services available, the device cannot be managed by Microsoft Endpoint Manager using the work profile. I recently did a blog post on this, for more information, please refer to https://systemcenterdudes.com/endpoint-manager-android-china/ In this blog post, we will see how to move…
Microsoft released Configuration Manager technical preview version 2010.2 which is 2nd release for Oct 2020. These Technical previews released every month for testing, explore new and improved features and provide feedback in case of any issues. This Technical previews brings the following new and improved features. Tenant attach: Troubleshooting portal lists a user’s devices based on usage Tenant attach: Create and deploy firewall policies Enhancements to applications in Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin Center Manage BitLocker policies and escrow recovery keys over a cloud management gateway (CMG) Improvements to deploy an OS over CMG using boot media Desktop Analytics support for…
I was recently assisting a customer on the Configuration Manager upgrade and after the upgrade is done, we need to upgrade the console on endpoint devices to the latest version. When you install/update your configuration manager site, there will be a change in the console version which needs to be updated on all your endpoints that have the console installed. If your site is running a new version of Configuration Manager build but your users are at lower version, users will be prompted to install the new console version, next time when they launch the console but it has the…
we had a requirement to hide the notification previews for teams and also outlook when there is any mail or conversation that happens on mobile devices due to security reasons. Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) app protection policies has setting for admins to be able to block organizational data from appearing in Teams mobile notifications (e.g. message preview, channel, or sender name) on both iOS and Android end-user lock screens using the Intune Application Protection Policy (APP). This will allow you to specify how org data is shared via OS notifications for org accounts. In your intune app protection policies, edit…
Another month pass by and Microsoft released Technical preview for Configuration Manager 2010. These technical previews will be released every month and is for lab purpose ONLY.For more information about the technical preview and how to use it, please refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/get-started/technical-previewThe active baseline version as of today for technical preview is 2007 and this can be downloaded from Evaluation Center.Following are the new features in Technical preview 2010.Deploy a task sequence to a user as an app model deployment typeStarting in the release, you can now deploy a non-OS deployment task sequence to a user-based collection when you add a…