GPO – All about Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Update scan failed due to Group policy settings were overwritten by a higher authority

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 4,169 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…

How to disable or enable auto start of Teams application using GPO

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Eswar Koneti | 17 Comments | 129,557 Views

When we started of with office 365 project ,one of the key application to be delivered to users is Teams application. Teams is the primary client for intelligent communications in Office 365, replacing Skype for Business Online over time. When we started deploying the teams clients to windows computers using SCCM Configmgr ,teams will auto…

How to Install MBAM 2.5 SP1 and integrate with SCCM Configmgr 2012 R2 SP1 – Part 5

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 17,406 Views

In part 4 here ,we have installed the MBAM components on our MBAM server (MBAM01) . In this part 5 of this MBAM 2.5 SP1 series guide,we will configure the prerequisites required for windows clients using Group Policy objects before we deploy MBAM Agent and drive encryption. Before we Configure and deploy MBAM 2.5…

SCCM VBScript to add shortcut files to users desktop profile OR favorites

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 2,398 Views

How to add link URL or shortcut file to users desktop profile ? Easiest way to accomplish this task is with GPO(Group policy Object). If you want to accomplish this task using Configuration manager(SCCM),you can create simple VB script that does this job. Option Explicit dim path path=CreateObject("WScript.Shell").ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%UserProfile%\desktop") dim objFSO set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If objFSO.FileExists(path &…