On this Valentine day (Feb 14,2018 ), Microsoft released Feb 2018 Technical preview version 1802 for Configuration Manager with large number of features (21) that ever released before. These monthly Tech previews generally will be released on Friday's but this time ,shipped few days earlier. You can install this version to update and add new capabilities to your SCCM technical preview site. To use the technical preview version, 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…
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Month ago, user reported issue that , user could not able to access Microsoft Planner application (MAM) from their mobile device. Users are able to access applications like outlook ,onedrive,Microsoft Teams,word,excel etc but not Microsoft Planner. Below is the error user get ,when they try to access planner from mobile device. You can’t get there from here . It looks like you are trying to open this resource with app that hasn't been approved y your IT department.ask them for a list of approved applications. The above clearly says ,microsoft planner is not approved app and this message is coming…
Yammer is enterprise social networking service used for private communication within organizations. Access to a Yammer network is determined by a user's Internet domain so that only individuals with approved email addresses may join their respective networks. Yammer can be used to discuss ideas, share updates, and crowd source answers from co-workers around the globe. Yammer gives you a faster, smarter way to connect and collaborate across your company. If your organisation moved to O365 ,you will hit requirement to deploy O365 applications like Microsoft Teams,Onedrive,Yammer ,AIP etc. All of these applications (except AIP) are user specific and they will…
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…
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…