Had to test out this feature as well in Configuration Manager(MEMCM) 2009 Technical Preview, remote control over Cloud Management Gateway(CMG). A long awaited feature that was first introduced in Technical preview 1906, Technical Preview Docs and then removed again for a year or more. Being able to remote control a computer over Internet using CMG…
MEMCM 2009 TP CMG – Virtual Machine sets
Configuration Manager 2009 Technical Preview is out with some great new features for us to test. One of them is Cloud Management Gateway(CMG) support for Virtual Machine Sets. This a great feature as it solves the CSP issue we had with CMG as it is using a classic service that is not available in a…
MS Edge v85 roaming profile + UE-V
One of the new features in MS Edge v85 is support for roaming profile settings to a local file, profile.pb. This is great news for many organizations that cannot synchronize the user settings to Azure AD account due to for example laws, compliance or lack of Azure AD Premium. More information about the new feature…
Windows 10 Secure AutoLogon – PowerShell
I wrote a blog post in June on how to use AutoLogon.exe in a Task Sequence to configure AutoLogon in Windows 10. https://ccmexec.com/2020/06/configuring-autologon-during-osd-using-autologon-exe/ After writing that post my colleague Johan Schrewelius wrote a nice little C# part for us which we use in Powershell so we can create and configure a LSA secret using PowerShell…
Cool features in MEMCM 2008 Technical Preview
Configuration Manager 2008 Technical preview is out! So many Cool features in MEMCM 2008 Technical Preview. Always great new features in there that will make our lives easier. I have a hard time decide which is the most useful feature, my top two favorites are Collection Query Preview and Integrated collection evaluator. Collection query preview…
Configuring Autologon during OSD using Autologon.exe
There are many blogposts on how to configure Autologon for use when deploying kiosk devices for example. I needed to solve that in a kiosk scenario, more kiosk blogposts will be posted later.What are the challenges with Autologon then? To start with the OOBE phase clears out all Autologon registry values so they need to…
Roam Microsoft Teams custom backgrounds with UE-V
Custom backgrounds in Microsoft Teams is a really great feature, I love it! Use it all the time! I got a question if users can roam their custom backgrounds somehow between machines and of course User Experience Virtualization(UE-V) comes to the rescue. If UE-V is already used and configured on the computers it is really…
MEMCM Technical Preview 2005 = Epic!
I always love testing out the new Technical Previews and I must say that this one is extremely impressive and all the features are in line with the times we live in now with Covid-19. The product team has once again outdone themselves in features that we need in this scenario. The features included in…