We’re proud to announce the release of ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd version 1.5.1. Download More information about ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd is available on the following page, including download link and release notes: ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd What’s new Fixed a bug when the ComputerNameFromCM application configuration setting was set to True, causing existing user relations in the […]
We’re proud to announce the release of ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd version 1.5.1. Download More information about ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd is available on the following page, including download link and release notes: ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd What’s new Fixed a bug when the ComputerNameFromCM application configuration setting was set to True, causing existing user relations in the […]
Update- APRIL FOOL!!! It is with a heavy heart that I write this, the final post from SCConfigMgr.com. Over the past 5 years the blog has gone from strength to strength, but unfortunately it has become a victim of its own success. Due to legal issues presented to us in the past […]
Late last year the Microsoft Configuration Manager team worked with the PowerBI team to release a business template for reporting on information in Configuration Manager. When this report first came out I chuckled a little bit at it because the amount of data they were working with was absolutely ginormous. However the report slowly picked […]
A long time ago I saw a really cool post on Johan Arwidmarks blog from a contributer Mattias Benninge about how to automate the creation of maintenacne windows with an offset from Patch Tuesday and when I saw it I thougth wow that’s really cool! https://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/662/Create-a-Maintenance-Window-in-ConfigMgr-with-an-offset-from-patch-Tuesday However then I experienced some sadness. If you’ve ever […]
With the release of the Invoke-CMApplyDriverPackage.ps1 script version 2.2.1 in our Modern Driver Management solution, we now support pre-caching (or pre-staging) driver packages matching the hardware vendor, model och operating system that it is targeted for an upgrade. Pre-caching driver package content on a device is only supported for the OSUpgrade deployment type using Modern […]
Since the release of Windows 10, it has been common for organization to try and reduce the footprint of built-in apps (or default apps) in their reference images, or even during bare-metal deployment. Over the years, the community has provided several solutions on how to accomplish this including myself. During this time, I’ve attempted to […]
Shortly before MMS this week I was starting to work on some PowerShell where I was constantly creating and adding parameters and I realized that the default parameters in VSCode weren’t quite what I wanted them to be so I decided to dig into how I could update them and customize them to really do […]
We’re proud to announce the release of ConfigMgr WebService 1.8.0. What’s new Below is a list of the added web methods and improvements in this release, divided by section: General improvements Improved a bug in the internal GetMDTComputerName method to only retrieve objects where the OSDComputerName property is not null. Fixed a bug for Modern […]
We’re proud to announce the release of ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd version 1.6.0. Download More information about ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd is available on the following page, including download link and release notes: ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd What’s new Below is a list of enhancements and new features made available in this release: New features and improvements New […]
Ever since the first public announcement of Desktop Analytics back at Microsoft Ignite in September 2018, companies have been asking for this cloud service for a while now and it’s finally here (although in Public Preview). In this blog post we’re going to have a look at how we can setup and connect ConfigMgr with […]
When I was in MMSMOA, I met Adam Gross. I have known him already in Twitter, but it’s was really nice to meeting him in person. Adam has wrote many excellent posts about AdminServcie, please read his posts for more information, I won’t go to the details here talk about what it is and how […]
In this latest build of the Driver Automation Tool, the focus has been on extending Microsoft Surface support. There has been high demand for improved Surface management from us, so in this update we are extending our Modern BIOS Management solution to work with the Surface models. Dynamic Surface Downloads The XML feed from SCConfigMgr […]
Groups in Azure AD have sometimes proven difficult to fully utilize when it comes to querying a set of devices based out of various specific data. These groups are limited to a defined set of properties available on the Azure AD device object. In a ConfigMgr world, we’ve always had the pleasure of extending hardware […]
I was recently working with a customer who, as a lot of customers do, have a lab that also happens to be production. One of the things we were working on was implementing the configuration items and baselines needed for configuring and enabling wake on lan in the environment. However, as we were working through […]
With multiple deployments for task sequences gaining in prominence as a process for In-Place Upgrades, this post will demonstrate a different way to leverage the Modern Driver Management solution in this scenario while not relying on the CCMCache. In the inadvisable event that an In-Place Upgrade is to be used in a Windows 7 to […]
Ever wondered how you can kick off a manual or automatic sync of your Intune policies from a PowerShell script? Not long ago I ran into the need to have policies applied to new devices, a lot quicker than what a normal enrollment does. Because I had multiple users on shared computers, and a lot […]
WIM Witch is a utility that can be used to update and modify WIM files for Windows deployment scenarios. It allows the WIM to be patched, drivers to be applied, in-box applications to be removed, and .Net 3.5 binaries to be injected. It also supports the ability to inject an Autopilot configuration file into the […]
When using ConfigMgr to create an Office 365 installer, essentially an application used to install, configure or even upgrade existing Office applications to e.g. Office 365 ProPlus, it’s a good idea to keep the content of the application updated on a regular basis. Today, there’s no built-in mechanism in ConfigMgr that gives you the option […]
I recently wrote a blog post at www.jordantheitguy.com on how to user PowerShell to create add a query rule to a collection for machines in an active directory security group. While a lot of things in Configuration Manager and intune have been shifted towards a user perspective we also still have to manage lots of […]
Version 6.4.0 of the Driver Automation Tool has taken a while to put together, so thanks for your patience. The fact is that creating community tools like this take time, lots of time, and recently I have been trying to balance work, conferences, and being a father. So this is the latest update to the […]