Category: configmgr

How to migrate standalone MBAM to SCCM for bitlocker

Posted on November 10, 2022 by | 5 Comments | 3,992 Views
We all know that Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) is an administrative tool for managing BitLocker Drive Encryption for windows devices that are on-prem domain joined. MBAM mainstream support ended on July 2019 and is currently in extended support until April 2026. To know more about mainstream support and extended support, please read the…
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Investigating SCCM Client Policy Request and Communication Status with a Collection Specific Report

Posted on October 15, 2022 by | 15 Comments | 13,257 Views
Introduction: As a SCCM Configmgr administrator, one of your key responsibilities is to ensure the health of SCCM clients for tasks like application deployment, software updates, and inventory management. Oftentimes, you may encounter situations where you need to identify computers that haven't contacted the server in a specific number of days or determine the clients…
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Update scan failed due to Group policy settings were overwritten by a higher authority

Posted on May 24, 2022 by | 0 Comments | 5,768 Views
Few years ago, I have blogged about the client update scan failure due to GPO’s. https://eskonr.com/2014/10/sccm-configmgr-2012-software-update-scan-error-group-policy-settings-were-overwritten-by-a-higher-authority-error-code-0x87d00692/ Introduction: When the software update point is configured for a site, client computers receive a machine policy that provides the active software update point server name (WSUS) and configures the Specify intranet Microsoft update service location local policy on…
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SCCM Software Update installation failed with error code 0x87D00664

Posted on March 22, 2022 by | 0 Comments | 37,238 Views
I was approached by a customer who had issues deploying the March 2022 windows 10 cumulative updates. The error code and the screenshot is provided below. The software updates are failed with error code 0x87D00664 (-2016410012). The error code 0x87D00664 translates to ‘Updates handler job was cancelled’. There could be several reasons why the updates…
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