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How to migrate standalone MBAM to SCCM for bitlocker

Posted on November 10, 2022 by | 5 Comments | 2,729 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 | 4,222 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 | 30,161 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 | 6,686 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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SCCM Collections for devices with pending reboot

Posted on February 23, 2022 by | 0 Comments | 3,600 Views
Long ago, I wrote a blog post on a report for finding the devices with pending reboot, more information is available on https://eskonr.com/2019/01/sccm-report-get-list-of-devices-with-pending-reboot-in-a-collection-with-different-states/ I was recently working on checking the compliance of the devices in SCCM for windows patching and I could see that the software update compliance is not that great due to various…
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