Utilizing Identity Governance to delegate local admin permissions for Hybrid and Azure AD Joined devices Note: I am not a security expert. I do not know the security practices used in your environment. This...
Maintaining PKI functionality through the upgrade to CylancePROTECT 1580 We recently deployed Cylance 1584 across our environment. Cylance implemented version 2 of their Memory and Script Controls with version...
I’ve been doing more and more work with Intune lately and have been looking at different methods of Autopiloting devices. My go-to has been OSDCloud by David Segura. It is a great tool for quickly...
I’ve recently supported a customers environment where they had a split environment. This environment consisted of both physical and virtual assets managed by MemCM, or WS1. The virtual assets were Amazon Windows...
I’ve now consulted to about half a dozen environments where we have leveraged the feature update approach for windows servicing. I’m seriously considering every upgrade forward to be done this way instead of...
In this scenario the customer is trying to image systems from within WinPe. They are able to select a task sequence, but then once policy dependencies evaluate the customer receives the “An error occurred while...
As a consultant I’ve seen a fair number of environments, and the story is usually the same. Most environments are not leveraging ConfigMgr to it’s fullest capabilities. Today I’m not going to talk...
We recently completed an AOVPN deployment with SCCM and hit a few bumps along the way,so thought I’d document to help anyone else. One point to note is, I had nothing to do with the AOVPN solution configuration...
Just a quick “Learn from my Mistakes” post here. Let me first say that the Task Sequence Debugger is an excellent tool and can and will make troubleshooting task sequences so much easier. BUT, there is a...
We have passed scrutineering and are now ready for qualifying during this race weekend! In part 1 I talked about the overall design of my WaaS implementation and some background on how I got there. WaaS – Overview of...
In part 1 I talked about the overall design of my WaaS implementation and some background on how I got there. WaaS – Overview of WaaS the Wolverine Way Here I’ll go into details on the “Phase 0” portion of the process...
I remember the first attempt I made at upgrading a group of devices at work. It was the Autumn of 2017 and I was trying to upgrade a group of roughly 20 Build 1511 devices since support was running out on that build. ...
[Edit: I found a better analogy to explain what happened. See the bottom of this post] Over the last three weeks we’ve been hit by an intermittent outage that knocked our SCCM infrastructure essentially offline...
We’ve amassed a very large number of task sequences since migrating to Configuration Manager 2012 and it got me thinking about ways to archive off older sequences so that we can clean house. So I came up with...
I’ve been looking for a simple way to identify and map out the nested task sequences. This is the first part of a project that I’m working on. The goal of the overall project is to duplicate an entire task...
On 11 January 2019 I had the privilege to speak at the Michigan System Center Users Group meeting on the topic of using Power BI to report your OSD build stats. This is a companion post to that presentation. This is an...
Hello, My name is Charles, I went to the Midwest Management Summit back in May 2019. It was my second time attending the conference. You might remember me as “that guy who has no remote users” 🙂 I said I would blog...
As I write this post we are just days away from beginning the mass In-Place Upgrades (IPUs) of the entire enterprise (~35,000 devices). Of course everyone is going to want to know how the numbers are looking. To...
Welcome to Part 2 of the 2-part series about the SCCM Application Packager Script! If you have not yet read Part 1, I highly recommend doing so before continuing. The SCCM Packager Tool works by parsing and processing...
HinvChangeLog – The 600gb DB Backlog Recently I was doing some investigating on why a Configuration Manager database was consuming what appeared to be an excessive amount of space. This was a new environment to...
Don’t you love when Chrome, Firefox and Flash all release critical updates all at the same time? Packaging software that changes frequently was taking a lot of my time, I knew that there must be a better way. I...
