Eswar Koneti

Efficiently Identify Co-Managed Devices: Techniques and Tools

Posted on January 17, 2023 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 1,452 Views

Co-management is a feature that allows organizations to manage their devices using both Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr). This enables organizations to take advantage of the latest security features and cloud capabilities, such as conditional access and device compliance policies, while also being able to manage certain client actions without the need…

Troubleshooting Azure MFA call to phone option missing (TwoWayVoiceMobile)

Posted on January 14, 2023 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 667 Views

Recently, while working on an office 365 hardening project, I came across an issue that was causing problems for many users in verifying the 2nd factor authentication (Azure MFA). During the 2nd factor authentication process, users were presented with the following screen. As you can see, the user has the option to verify their identity…

SCCM report list collections with no deployments

Posted on December 5, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 6 Comments | 2,678 Views

The following SQL query can be used to query the list of collections that doesn't have any deployments. you can review the number of collections with no deployments and you can further extend the query to exclude certain folders where you use these exception collections for troubleshooting or other purpose. select Col.Name, col.CollectionID, case when…

SCCM Client HTTP Error sending DAV request HTTP code 503 content download issue

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 2,087 Views

This is a quick blog post on an issue that I recently looked at regarding the client issue with content download from the distribution point. Clients in one specific boundary could not able to download the content from its assigned distribution point. Though the client was healthy, the inventory cycle is up to date but…

Intune manage write access to mobile storage and removable data drives

Posted on November 11, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 954 Views

I was recently working on an assignment to manage windows 10 devices using Microsoft Intune. One of the ask is to Block the write access to the mobile storage devices when the user plugs into the windows device and Allow write access to the removal data drives (thumb drives) if they are bitlocker protected. I…

How to migrate standalone MBAM to SCCM for bitlocker

Posted on November 10, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 5 Comments | 4,066 Views

We all know that Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) is an administrative tool for managing BitLocker Drive Encryption for windows devices that are on-prem domain joined. MBAM mainstream support ended on July 2019 and is currently in extended support until April 2026. To know more about mainstream support and extended support, please read the…

Tool for managing the import and export of SSRS report – ReportSync Tool

Posted on October 27, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 4 Comments | 7,850 Views

Did you ever had difficulties importing, exporting or migrating the SSRS reports from one Configuration infra to other ConfigMgr infra? If so, how do you migrate reports ? When i work with my customers on the hardware migration of the SCCM and especially the SSRS reports, i always use the tool rather powershell scripts. To…

Using Powershell to update Azure authentication method – phone number

Posted on October 16, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 2 Comments | 3,826 Views

Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) works by requiring two or more authentication methods for a user to gain access to applications. Multi-factor authenticator in Azure AD can be set using different methods such as Microsoft Authenticator, Phone number, Email etc. One of the easiest MFA methods that doesn't require any user configuration and can be…