Author: Eswar Koneti

This is a quick post on an issue that I come across recently at a customer who was unable to install the IIS role for setting up a distribution point. As we all know, IIS is a prerequisite for setting up a distribution point in Configuration Manager. During the installation of the IIS feature, you need to provide the path to source files, this will be usually the SXS folder from the OS media file as shown below. I have specified the SxS folder during the installation of IIS and made sure that, the OS version matches the ISO file that…

I am super excited and honored to receive an email from Microsoft about my MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) award renewal for the year 2020-2021 in Enterprise Mobility area . This is my 4th consecutive year MVP award (First year 2017) and glad that, I am still part of great MVP community for another year. Following is the email received on the MVP Award from Microsoft. Dear Eswar Koneti, We’re once again pleased to present you with the 2020-2021 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in recognition of your exceptional technical community leadership. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in the following technical…

Microsoft has released Configuration Manager Technical Preview version 2006 with a lot of cloud features. For more information about the features of this preview release, please refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/get-started/2020/technical-preview-2006 This Technical preview version is not a baseline version and can be installed only from the in-console update. If you are building a new site, please install the baseline version (tech preview) 2002 and update it to 2006 using in-console. This technical preview version focused more on cloud-related feature.One of the most waiting features of CMG is, to allow intranet clients to scan against CMG software update point when you configure the…

Here is another interesting issue that I come across recently with the Configuration Manager build version 2002. I was reviewing the client health dashboard in the monitoring workspace and saw the following status.. As you can see above, the bar chart for the client's overall health, the client policy request is at a very low percentage compared to other scenarios such as client health, software inventory, hardware inventory, etc.. The client policy is something that you can configure in device the client settings (default 60 min) and help the client to download the policies from the Management point. By clicking…

I was recently troubleshooting the sccm client installation issue on a server that was configured as a distribution point.Installation of client The client installation setup and process is very simple and straight forward unless you hit issues like this.When I started looking at the client installation log( ccmsetup.log), I saw the below information in the log.The client version 5.00.8913.1000 (build 2002) does not match the MP version 5.00.8790.1000 (Build 1910). The client cannot be installed.ccmsetup failed with error code 0x80004005The above error code says, there is a management point installed on the server which is not matching the client version…

App protection policies in intune help you to ensure the organization data is secure on managed apps. If you want to use MAM protection policies for securing the org data on iOS and Android, you don't have to enroll the device into intune however you can create the MAM policies for both enrolled and without enrolled devices.For the creation and protecting the organization data using MAM, pls read hereIn this post, we will see how to monitor the MAM protection policy settings such as app PIN, contact sync, managed locations, etc on iOS, and Android devices for troubleshooting purposes.Before the…

With Configuration Manager technical preview build, a bunch of Tenant attach features were released which will help you to take actions from the devices blade in the Admin center. One of the coolest feature in this preview release is, we can now initiate an application install in real time for a tenant attached device from the Microsoft Endpoint Management admin center. What do we need to do to install the application in Realtime from the admin center? Prerequisites: You'll need to meet all of the prerequisites for Tenant attach: ConfigMgr client details: An environment that's tenant attached with uploaded devices.…

Microsoft released Technical preview 2005 for May 2020. This preview release contain lots of tenant attached features along with some cloud management gateway as well. This preview version is available only via in-console update. If you want to build a new lab, you need to download the baseline version of tech preview 2002 and then update to 2005. For more information about Technical preview, please read here I just updated my lab to technical preview 2005 to explore the new tenant attach features. Technical preview 2005: Top features: A task sequence launched from boot media or PXE can retrieve content…