Microsoft released first ConfigMgr Technical preview version for this year 2018 with some exciting features. To use the technical preview, you must first install a baseline version of the technical preview build i.e Technical Preview 1711. After installing a baseline version, you then use in-console updates to bring your installation up-to-date with the most recent preview version. Typically, new versions of the Technical Preview are available each month. If you plan to build new lab ,download the preview baseline version 1711 is available from the TechNet Evaluation Center. The following are new features you can try out with this…
Author: Eswar Koneti
After the release of Configmgr Current branch version 1710 ,one of the primary issue was that ‘clients are not upgraded on systems that are running Windows Server 2008 SP2’ ,installation terminates with error code ‘Faulting application ccmsetup.exe, version 5.0.8577.1000, time stamp 0x5a03cc4c, faulting module KERNEL32.dll!K32EnumProcessModules’ So Microsoft released hotfix rollup update for Configmgr 1710 that resolves above issue along with many other issues listed in the support document https://support.microsoft.com/help/4057517. This update is available for installation in the Updates and Servicing node of the Configuration Manager console. It also applies to customers that are running Configuration Manager version 1710, first wave.…
Note:If you are running Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager 2002 and later, this post is not applicable. In 2002 and later builds, the boundary group information is available as default value for client devices and you dont need to extend the custom MOF file. For more information about boundary groups in build 2002 and later, please read here. Introduction: Boundaries for SCCM define network locations on your intranet that can contain devices that you want to manage. Boundary groups are logical groups of boundaries that you configure. For more information click here Few days ago ,Jason Sandy’s has blogged about…
I was looking at the console other day and found that, there were many collections created in the root folder (device collection) with 0 count. So i looked at the collection properties ,i found empty there (No direct or query based rule). So i decided to write SQL query to identify the list of collections that have empty results with no query rules (Direct or query based) defined in it. For this query ,i have used 2 SQL views (v_Collection and v_CollectionRuleQuery ) . For full list of SQL views that exist in SCCM Configmgr ,please refer https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCCM-Configmgr-2012-R2-SQL-5fefdd3b .…
If you are using o365 services ,you might hit requirement to block unsupported OS (Ubuntu,CentOS etc) accessing o365 resources . There are couple of ways that you can restrict unsupported using Azure Active Directory Conditional Access. The only devices that are supported at the moment are iOS,Android,Mac and Windows. You can control these supported devices to protect the data without being leaked with combination of conditional access and intune ,however these unsupported OS cannot be managed hence you must block them to access o365 resources. For more information about conditional access ,have provided the links in reference section at…
If you are using Microsoft intune as MDM solution to manage mobile devices ,you will certainly hit the requirement of managing Internet access using Managed Browser policies with Microsoft Intune to allow or block,bookmark and set home page with certain URL’s. Intune Managed Browser is a web browsing application that you can download from public app stores (apple store or Google play store) for use in your organization. Since this app has integration with the Intune SDK, you can also apply app protection policies like controlling cut ,copy,paste that comes with intune app protection policies. If you are allowing end…
Deploying Onedrive for Business is straight forward .The command line switches are very simple :"OneDriveSetup.exe" /silent ,but when you create application in Configmgr, there are couple of things that you need to focus on like detection method and install behaviour. If you search online ,how to deploy onedrive for business using Configmgr, you will get various post however the following method is what i have been using and it works fine . I would like to share the solution in simple steps. Create application that you do normally but use use the following information to fill detection method ,User…
Microsoft released December month ConfigMgr Technical Preview version (1712). It has been while since I look at my SCCM Tech preview lab. So I had chance to look at the new features that are released with this preview version and play around it in my lab. Following are the new features released with this preview version (This is only for lab purpose,not for production release). Do not automatically upgrade superseded applications Install multiple applications in Software Center Client-based PXE responder service Change in the Configuration Manager client install Change to the Surface device dashboard Improvements to Office 365 Client Management…