Author: Eswar Koneti

Microsoft Edge browser is secure ,manageable and provides rich browsing experience. Using a protected browser with Intune policy (Microsoft Edge), you can ensure company resources are always accessed with corporate safeguards in place. This ties back to your O365 Identity.You can use Microsoft Edge for enterprise scenarios on iOS and Android devices. Microsoft Edge supports all of the same management scenarios as the Intune Managed Browser with the addition of improvements to end-user experience. The following Microsoft Edge enterprise features enabled by Intune policies are available. These enterprise features include:Dual-Identity - Users can add both a work account, as well…

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We recently hit into an issue that, user has configure to store PST files  (outlook files) into the user’s Onedrive (office 365) . Though we did not think of blocking the pst ,nsf files in onedrive sync configuration until it report to us. Storing of PST into onedrive do create multiple versions and that eat all your space .We have instructed user to delete some files from onedrive but cannot access the OneDrive due to storage FULL. The only option left is ,get SharePoint admin increase the onedrive quota (if you are eligible as there are different office 365 plans…

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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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