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Enhancing Troubleshooting with Verbose Logging in SCCM

Posted on October 29, 2023 by | 0 Comments | 253 Views
Verbose logging is a powerful tool that provides a detailed record of events, actions, and errors, making it invaluable for troubleshooting, diagnosing issues, and monitoring activities. When enabled, verbose logging offers an enhanced view of what's happening within client, offering deeper insights that can prove essential for IT administrators and support person. By default, SCCM…
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SCCM Right Click Tool Managed workloads of co-managed device

Posted on September 25, 2023 by | 0 Comments | 2,877 Views
Co-management (cloud attach) enables you to manage Windows 10 or later devices simultaneously by using both Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune. For more information about co-management, please refer here. For a device to be co-managed, one of the pre-requisite is Windows devices must be connected to Azure AD using Hybrid Azure AD joined or Azure…
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How to migrate standalone MBAM to SCCM for bitlocker

Posted on November 10, 2022 by | 5 Comments | 4,568 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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Update scan failed due to Group policy settings were overwritten by a higher authority

Posted on May 24, 2022 by | 0 Comments | 6,700 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 | 41,670 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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How to deploy Microsoft Store apps (offline) using Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Posted on March 3, 2022 by | 0 Comments | 8,382 Views
Microsoft Endpoint Manager (ConfigMgr & Intune) allows us to configure and deploy the Microsoft Store apps. For more information, please read through ConfigMgr  and Intune . In my recent engagement with customer, there is need to deploy Microsoft store app (offline) using Configuration Manager as there is no integration with store for business. Online: This…
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