Application groups in Configuration Manager is a pre-release feature which has evolved greatly from release to release. Configuration Manager 2002 is no different. Two of my three most wanted features are in the latest release, required uninstall and reverse uninstall order of applications. Let’s have a look at how it looks. Let’s start with the
Orchestration Groups is a new feature in Configuration Manager 2002 and replaces Server Groups which never made it out of pre-release.. Orchestration Groups is a pre-release feature that you need to enable if you intend to use it. NOTE: Orchestration Groups will replace Server Groups if you are using that today and convert your Server
This post started as a poll I did on twitter on how many has enabled Strong Authentication in Configuration Manager as a requirement to access the Configuration Manager Admin Console(SMS Provider). The result was interesting.. 96,2 percent use Windows authentication… that is a way to high number. Configuration Manager basically owns all devices in your
A big ask and dream has been a Webbased admin portal for Configuration Manager for a long time. The new feature in Configuration Manager 2002.2 Technical Preview “Device sync and actions” is the first look at the feature promised and presented at Ignite in 2019. This new features is hopefully the start with more features
I wrote a blog post on App groups in MEMCM 1910 which is a really great feature. In that blog post I covered uninstall and the fact that the uninstall was made in the same order as the install, which I for one never uses. https://ccmexec.com/2019/12/application-groups-in-configuration-manager-1910/ I also added a link to a user voice
With a new version of Edge Chromium there is of course new setting we can do = new ADMX/AMDL files. It is important for admin to keep up so even if we allow auto-update of Edge Chromium there is still work that needs to be done for every new release. This is the new Group
I got this question many times “what does the Mobile Apps Co-Management workload actually do”. So here is a short post on the topic. It is fairly simple it controls where applications (PowerShell scripts) can be installed from, Intune & MEMCM or only Configuration Manager. We start by enabling the Mobile apps feature which is
Windows Autopilot is a great feature and together with the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) it becomes even more powerful as we can make sure for example configuration, applications, certificates and much more is applied before the end-user logs on for the first time so we can optimize their experience. During our latest projects we have run into
