Configuration Manager site database contains a large collection of information about the network, computers, users, user groups, and many other components of the computing environment. Being SCCM Admin, you need to understand the different categories of the SQL views, what information is stored in each view, and how the SQL views can be joined to one another to create reports that return the required information. For more information about SQL views please refer https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCCM-Configmgr-2012-R2-SQL-5fefdd3b Hardware inventory views contain information about the computer hardware .Many hardware inventory views are created in ConfigMgr by default, and many can be enabled or created…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Introduction: We can use app configuration policies in Microsoft Intune to provide configuration settings for an iOS or Android app. These configuration settings allow an app to be customized by using an industry standard approach to app configuration and management. The configuration policy settings are used when the app checks for them, typically the first time it is run. App configuration policies can be applied to managed devices (intune enrolled iOS and Android ) or managed apps (MAM-WE) . To know more about App configuration policies in Intune ,please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/app-configuration-policies-overview With the recent changes that Microsoft introduced to Edge…
Problem:Recently ,i was looking at customer intune related issue (POC) . Customer had setup conditional access policies (device to be compliant or hybrid Azure AD join) ,intune device compliance policies and also configured Mobility (MDM and MAM).Customer is purely using on-prem domain join and no hybrid azure AD join and no SCCM. They want to try intune features to manage windows 10 devices for now .as part of testing , they have enrolled windows 10 device which was on-prem domain joined to intune using work /school account and device enrollment was successful. Under the work/school account, i can see the…
I had setup SCCM Cloud Management gateway and Co-management for small customer who would like to extend the SCCM operations to windows 10 devices which are connected to internet. The cloud management gateway (CMG) provides a simple way to manage Configuration Manager clients on the internet. By deploying the CMG as a cloud service in Microsoft Azure, you can manage traditional clients that roam on the internet without additional infrastructure. You also don't need to expose your on-premises infrastructure to the internet. Co-management enables you to concurrently manage Windows 10 devices by using both Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune. It…
I am super excited and honored to receive an email from Microsoft about my MVP award renewal for the year 2019-2020 in Enterprise Mobility . I have received the following email on 1st July 2019. This is my 3rd consecutive year MVP award (First year 2017) and glad that, i am still part of great MVP community. Dear Eswar Koneti, We’re once again pleased to present you with the 2019-2020 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in recognition of your exceptional technical community leadership. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in the following technical communities during the past year: With this…
Introduction:With the recent Current Branch updates starting from 1806 , Microsoft is making good improvement on Software updates maintenance but there is lot to come in the near future. Read the Software updates maintenance tasks available in SCCM https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/sum/deploy-use/software-updates-maintenanceMany SCCM Admins think that ,installing WSUS ,doing initial configuration and configuring SUP role is enough for software update patching but that's not true. When you finish initial WSUS configuration ,you go SUP properties and start selecting classification and products. Based on this selection criteria , updates get synced with Microsoft . These synced updates include itanium and many other junk updates.…
WIP (windows information protection) is the mobile application management (MAM) mechanism on Windows 10. WIP gives you a new way to manage data policy enforcement for apps and documents on Windows 10 desktop operating systems, along with the ability to remove access to enterprise data from both enterprise and personal devices (after enrollment in an enterprise management solution, like Intune). WIP provides: Obvious separation between personal and corporate data, without requiring employees to switch environments or apps. Additional data protection for existing line-of-business apps without a need to update the apps. Ability to wipe corporate data from Intune MDM enrolled…
I was working on SCCM report for client health dashboard. During this report creation ,found that ,device appear twice with different GUID ID and resource ID but with same hostname. So i started looking at this issue to see how identify the records with duplicate hostnames. SCCM clients are uniquely identified by a GUID. A GUID is a combination of the client's media access control (MAC) address and the time when the GUID is assigned. This combination produces a number that is virtually always unique. The GUID assignment occurs during the client discovery and installation processes. The GUID is stored…