MEMCM 2203 has been released with some great features that I need to write about. Must be one of the releases that includes most the top request features like Escrow BitLocker Recovery Key to MEMCM in a Task Sequence, Dark Mode! and Icons for Task Sequences and packages. Escrow BitLocker Recovery Key to MEMCM in…
Category: Configuration Manager
MEMCM SQL Query Poor Performance
A few days ago, we experienced performance issues when querying a ConfigMgr DB view. A very simple query: “SELECT Name, MachineID, IsActive, AADDeviceID FROM v_CombinedDeviceResources WHERE CoManaged = ‘1’” could take up to a minute to complete. Since we already knew that “v_CombinedDeviceResources” is the source from where the Device view in the ConfigMgr console…
MEMCM Cloud Management Gateway migration options
Now that Cloud Management Gateway (Classic Service classic) is deprecated and will be removed in the future releases of Configuration Manager after 1 March 2022 we can now longer deploy a CMG using the cloud service (classic). This is most likely due the fact that Classic VMs is being removed in Azure as the link…
Great stuff in MEMCM Tech Preview 2201
It was a while ago since I wrote a post on what’s new in MEMCM Tech Previews but I could not help myself this time, some great stuff in this one! It it amazing that the Product Group ships at least 12 Technical previews each year with new features both small and large. In this…
Configure Windows 11 Start Menu folders using PowerShell
One of my favorite features in Windows 11 is the folders we can enable on the Start Menu. They are discrete and easy to access. Unfortunately, the Start Menu folders are not enabled by default which I would very much approve if they were! These are the folders we are talking about. They can manually…
Customizing Windows 11 default Start Menu during OSD using LayoutModification.json
In Windows 11 we can no longer deploy a custom Start Menu layout as we could in Windows 10. We don’t have any “Partial” managed option either as we had in Windows 10. The Group Policy “Start Layout” can still be used to deploy a custom Taskbar layout, HOWEVER the end user can no longer…
Modify Windows 11 Taskbar during OSD, Intune and GPO
When it comes to modifying the TaskBar in Windows 11 nothing has changed since Windows 10. The only change is that the Start Menu part of the XML file is no longer used, it has been replaced by a .json file. More on that in the next post. More information can be found here on…