Recently we (Kenny & myself) engaged with a bigger customer to migrate multiple MEMCM environments into a new standard platform, the goal of this project is to unify the multiple companies. One of our challenges was the Application delivery strategy. It was a heavy discussed topic as we faced the typical topic of “Application – …
Read moreAlong my years as a consultant. I have made several attempts at tracking changes in ConfigMgr Task Sequences. The obvious one being a note block and pen. Then, OneNote came along… Yes, I was taking notes before OneNote was born, Yes I’m aging. Thank you for that thought. In the end, there is one method …
Read moreHave you ever had the need to delete a Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) deployment from ConfigMgr? If so, did it work as intended? ? I’ve personally come across a few issues on the Azure side of things, where resources wouldn’t get deleted. Most times that was due to granular permissions on Resource Groups and was …
Read moreRecently, I overheard a conversation between IT staff members at one of my customers… One colleague to another: “… maybe we should reboot those servers first, because there might still be processes running as the badmin account that we renamed.” Me, with sparked interest since I heard the badmin account referenced: “Oh, good to know …
Read moreThis is an extensive explanation on how CMPivot can help you pull information from clients in Configuration Manager. Specifically, we’ll lookup an MSI Product Code for use with the Detection Method for an Application Deployment Type. But it covers some technical background and hints I hope you’ll find useful. TL;DR If you already know about …
Read moreIn September 2018, one of our customers was targeted by a phishing attack in attempts to infiltrate malicious code on their systems. These attempts were successful and a widespread Emotet-related malware attack followed. This is the story on how we countered and contained it with the use of Configuration Manager CB 1806 and CMPivot. One …
Read moreFor those who don’t know the MVP summit. This is the annual gathering of all MVP’s at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. For those who KNOW the MVP summit they know that you are under strict NDA not to tell anyone outside of the MVP program where we are heading with different aspects of Microsoft …
Read moreThis post is a follow-up on how to SCCM custom data into your log analytics environment. As soon as you have your SCCM custom logs, or any other logs, in log analytics they get indexed under the type you have specified. In this particular case I used SCCMLOG_CL (note that the CL is mandatory). So …
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