Author: Eswar Koneti

Edge browser for iOS and Andriod has been out since year (First released on Dec 2017) to give you continuous browsing experience from your mobile device to windows device. Microsoft previously had intune managed browser as a secure browser to open Microsoft office and other apps managed by Microsoft Intune. Since Apr 2018 ,there are no updates to Intune managed browser that shows the investment made on intune browser and Microsoft is moving towards Edge browser for mobile devices as a replacement of Intune Managed browser (aka ManBro) Edge browser is secure ,manageable and provides rich browsing experience. Using…

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When you assign office 365 proplus license to users in your Microsoft 365 tenant ,users will have option to download the proplus setup manually by visiting https://office.com or https://portal.office.com/ and click on install office. Even though you manage these proplus updates using SCCM and channel using GPO ,there will be users in organisation ,who will go to office portal and download the setup files manually to install for users. When they download the setup file (it can be 32bit or 64 bit) ,by default they get monthly channel which is not what most organisation will be looking to…

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Microsoft released first Technical preview for Configuration Manager in this year 2019 with some exciting features Client health dashboard, management insights rules for collections,DP maintenance mode,search device using MAC address and many others. If you want to get this preview install in your lab ,get the baseline version of Technical preview version 1810.2 from TechNet evaluation center . For more information about Technical previews ,please read here Once you install baseline version, you will see 1901 in the console . Installation of Technical previews from the console is simple and very straight forward . List of features that are…

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Beginning with the release of SCCM ConfigMgr Build 1710 or later , you can use the SCCM Console to identify client devices that require a restart, and then use a client notification action to restart them. If you want get this feature enabled on the client side ,you must also upgrade clients to version 1710 or later for this capability to function This become so much easier for SCCM engineers to restart the device with just one click . To identify devices that are pending a restart, you can go to the Assets and Compliance workspace and select the…

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After long-time ,i am back with quick SCCM Configmgr software update compliance report .A friend of mine asked me today morning that ,he wants to check the compliance report for specific computer (could be VIP ) against one or multiple software update groups that they have created/deployed. How do you check the compliance status of computer for specific software update groups ONLY and not for all updates that are available in SCCM ? You have several software update compliance reports for software update groups and for computers but there is none to check if the particular computer is compliant…

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This blog post is continuation to my previous post ‘Monitor collection evaluation's and remove incremental membership schedule for non-priority collections’ .More information can be found at http://eskonr.com/2019/01/sccm-configmgr-monitoring-collection-evaluations-and-change-update-membership-schedule-using-powershell/ . In this post ,we will see how to improve the collection evaluation performance further by identifying list of collections with direct rule created that have membership (incremental and/or full update) enabled and use powershell to remove the membership schedule. we will use the powershell script to identify 1)Direct based collections with Scheduled updates 2) Direct based collections with incremental updates + schedule updates 3) Direct based collections with incremental updates and…

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Introduction: It has been very long since i did post on Configmgr as i am spending more time on office 365 projects but i got something on SCCM this week that i would like to share . I have many other posts in TO-DO list especially on custom reporting but will get release them when i find time. Recently , I was looking into automation of azure servers through SCCM . for newly build azure servers, We use SCCM to install apps ,configurations ,software updates and others using task sequence as part of operation readiness. When a new server…

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Introduction: The Microsoft Surface Hub is an all in one multi-touch screen solution that empowers people, groups and organizations to connect and collaborate effortlessly. The Surface Hub is a wall-mounted or roller-stand-mounted device with either a 55-inch (140 cm) 1080p or an 84-inch (210 cm) 4K 120 Hz touchscreen with multi-touch and multi-pen capabilities, running the Windows 10 operating system.[3] The devices are targeted for businesses to use while collaborating and videoconferencing. More information about surface hub https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/surface-hub/manage-surface-hub Managing surface hub (allowing office 365 applications )using intune is very straight forward. All you need is enroll the surface hub either…

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