Recently, I was assisting a colleague of mine on the iOS app deployment that was purchased through the apple volume purchase program with Microsoft Intune. The app was purchased through VPP and synced to intune successfully and assigned this app to a security group (user-based) as required. The devices that were used by users are corporate-owned and supervised with some lockdown features. When the app was deployed to a user-based security group, users were prompted to key in the credentials. Since the Apple store is restricted by the DEP profile, users cannot sign into the store. Following is the error…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the situation is constantly changing around the world, the organization's started moving the workforce either from remote or work from home. Considering the number of users working remotely, it is very important to make sure that the devices are protected in all possible ways starting from windows security patching, antivirus, and other security tools available on the device. For windows security patching (manage the devices remotely) using SCCM/configuration manager, you have different options in configuration manager such as cloud management gateway, co-management. If your organization has installed a VPN on the endpoint, you…
Desktop Analytics is a cloud-based service that integrates with Configuration Manager (#MEMCM). Desktop Analytics provides insights and intelligence for you to make more informed decisions about the update readiness of your Windows clients. It combines data from your organization with data aggregated from millions of devices connected to Microsoft cloud services. For more information and how to setup desktop analytics, please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/desktop-analytics/set-up. After setting up the desktop analytics, I went through some troubleshooting issues as the devices are not successful in the enrollment in the first place. The issues related to the proxy, network, services, etc. In this blog…
In the last 2 blog posts, I talked about the SCCM report for missing boundaries and How to find client boundary and boundary group information. These 2 blog post has a dependency on extending the MOF for client boundary group cache.In this blog post, we will see how to check if the client is missing in the boundary group. This method doesn't need the MOF extension and we query the wmi on the client directly and report the compliance or non-compliant status.we will use compliance settings (configuration item and configuration baseline) to detect if the client is in the configured…
The new edge chromium-browser (stable release) from Microsoft was already out on Jan 15th, 2020 and is amazing with many unique features amongst the other browsers out there.If you wanted to manage the deployment of this new edge browser using configuration manager, please read http://eskonr.com/2020/01/how-to-deploy-microsoft-edge-chromium-stable-version-using-configuration-manager/If you wanted to manage the deployment of this new edge browser using Microsoft intune, please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/apps/apps-windows-edgeMicrosoft intune provide great features to protect your enterprise data using Windows Information Protection for windows 10 devices. For more information about windows WIP, please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/windows-information-protection/protect-enterprise-data-using-wipIn this blog post, I am going to discuss the case of this…
Here is a simple PowerShell script that helps you to export a list of all task sequences in your configuration manager server to a folder. These exported task sequences can be then imported to another environment (Dev to PROD) and get things moving instead of creating them from scratch. Exporting the task sequence can be done using GUI or scripting (Powershell). Powershell would be nicer to export multiple task sequence’s in an automated schedule. we can make use of Configuration Manager cmdlets and scripts by using the Configuration Manager console or by using a Windows PowerShell session. When you run…
With the release of Microsoft Endpoint Manager configuration manager technical preview 2001 released in Jan 2020, we can now integrate Power BI Report Server with Configuration Manager reporting. Integrating configuration manager with Power BI Report Servers gives you modern visualization and better performance. It adds console support for Power BI reports similar to what already exists with SQL Server Reporting Services. Read more information about configuration manager technical preview 2001 here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/core/get-started/2020/technical-preview-2001#bkmk_powerbi In this blog post, we will see how to integrate Power BI Report Server with Configuration Manager reporting in Technical preview 2001. Note: This is not applicable to…
Microsoft recently released notes for customers who are running on current branch 1910 , Client automatic upgrade happens immediately for all clients after you update the site to 1910.For more information about the release notes, please refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/core/servers/deploy/install/release-notes#client-automatic-upgrade-happens-immediately-for-all-clientsToday ,Microsoft has released an update to fix for this issue and is now available in the console.This update is applicable only to early update and globally available installations of Configuration Manager, version 1910 that are installed by using one of the following package GUIDs: 0BB82139-0DC3-4B18-B219-97FB2EFD9E56E2F7B2F9-4828-4650-9144-5DC7956781B7It is also applicable to the following package GUID's with the private TAP rollup, or update KB 4535819…