Author: Eswar Koneti

Introduction: We are in midst of completing office 365 project .As part of this project ,one of the primary activity is migration of Microsoft office to office 365 proplus. For office 365 proplus deployment ,we are using Powershell App deployment toolkit that provide GUI ,customize what to remove and other benefits compared with standard proplus that you download in ConfigMgr/configuration tool. As you know ,office 365 proplus activation is not usual method (KMS) instead, it use o365 license and user must activate the product using the license that they get it. After installing the proplus ,devices will perform auto…

Had request to uninstall teams as they had deployed the teams to users who not supposed to get it on their windows devices. Microsoft Teams brings together the full breadth and depth of Office 365, to provide a true chat-based hub for teamwork and give customers the opportunity to create a more open, fluid, and digital environment. Microsoft Teams is built on existing Microsoft technologies woven together by Office 365 Groups. In this post ,we will see how to uninstall teams client using ConfigMgr by creating application or package and deploy to either users or computers . we can download…

In part 1 of this series on setup hybrid Azure AD Join without ADFS , we talked about Hybrid Azure AD ,prerequisites on how to configure device options. In part 2 of this series in post ,we will see how to configure 2nd prerequisite i.e enable Seamless Single Sign ON through Azure AD Connect that would complete the steps required devices to be Hybrid Azure AD join. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Seamless Single Sign-On (Seamless SSO) will automatically signs in users when they are on their corporate desktops that are connected to your corporate network. Seamless SSO provides…

Introduction: About a week ago ,I was exploring Co-Management and Office 365 in my lab .To test Co-Management for any domain joined devices ,we need to have Hybrid Azure AD Join else we cannot manage domain joined devices using intune and Configmgr. We would also like to explore Conditional access policy that will help block non-domain joined windows 7 devices connecting to the test o365 environment. So to test Co-Management or Conditional access policy ,we would need hybrid Azure AD join working. Hybrid Azure AD (AAD+) join means, computer must be joined to on-prem domain and Azure AD domain…

Introduction/Problem: Colleague mine has asked me , why is he getting applications /updates on his computer that he hasn't requested for. When i heard of this ,i  verified in SCCM , based on the computer  name provided and found ,the PC has no SCCM agent . If the PC has no SCCM agent ,there is no way to receive the deployments. From the console,atleast i can see that, the client=No .So i asked him to check if these deployments are coming through SCCM/Configmgr or other methods .He confirms that, they are coming from SCCM and his PC has SCCM agent…

Introduction/Problem: We are in process of completing office 365 project to all users which bring teams and other products as part of office 365. We are using Lync/Skype for business as collaboration tool prior to office 365 project but once the project started ,every one is on teams hence we can decom lync servers and also disable lync for users. Before we proceed to sunset Lync/Skype for business, we need to look at the features feature comparison. Although teams cannot be compared with Skype in terms of feature that it carry on,there is one major thing that is not as…

Problem: If you are using qualys or Nessus tool or other tool to detect vulnerabilities on windows machines ,this post might be helpful to you. Recently ,our security team has reported that ,lot of servers are vulnerable for adobe flash player and claiming that, these servers are running lower version of Flash player. When i look at one of the server ,i could not find adobe flash player installed. If there are no application installed, there is no way for SCCM to detect the flash player components are running lower version (we do 3rd party patching as well) and you…

Introduction: In this blog post,i will discuss about some of the troubleshooting methods that i have used to identify the active/inactive computers on the network (Active is not based on SCCM agent ) . Last week ,i was working on office 365 proplus deployment & training for customer in Vietnam. As part this ,one of the activity that i need to identify was,what are the actual number of computers that are talking to domain controller in last X days. When i look at SCCM ,there are hundreds of computers without SCCM agent .So for me to start with the deployment/reports…