A highlight of every month is when a new Configuration Manager Technical Preview is out! Always extremely fun to see and test out new features that is coming, some can be directly from a Uservoice suggestions. There are some amazing gems in MEMCM 2104 Technical Preview release! Cloud attach improvements, console improvements and last but…
Category: Configuration Manager
Top 5 new features in Configuration Manager 2103
With each release of a new Configuration Manager Current Branch we get new and awesome features. Amazing work by the Configuration Manager team at Microsoft to be able to switch focus to what is important like when Covid-19 hit. Delivering new features three times a year that will make all our lives a little bit…
MEMCM TS HP Image Assistant offline repository installation
This solution is provided to the Community by Daniel Gråhns and Nicklas Eriksson, Twitter(Sigge_gooner), thank you for sharing it! Great work! As the title says it is a solution for deploying drivers and software during a Task Sequence using HP Image Assistant. The benefit of using this is that you can automate the whole process…
Update Edge source files in MEMCM using PowerShell
Edge is updated often and if we use AutoUpdate which I think we should use for Edge it is automatically updated after OS deployment. But in some cases, we need policies to be applied to Edge that are only supported in newer versions then we need to make sure it is updated when the user…
Windows Servicing in the work from anywhere era using IPUInstaller
During the Nordic Virtual Summit me and Ronni Pedersen did a session on “Windows Servicing in the work from anywhere era”, great event, great fun! Nordic Virtual Summit – A virtual IT Pro Community Event! During that session we demoed a new community tool or actually two community tools from my colleague Johan Schrewelius. DeploymentScheduler…
BitLocker Administration Service in MEMCM
Starting in ConfigMgr Current branch 1910 integrated BitLocker management (MBAM) is supported. This is all well and fine except one detail; it does not include the Administration Service Endpoint available in MBAM standalone. This endpoint is, most cases, crucial if you are using any kind of automation, management system, custom helpdesk tool or such. This…
Map drives when connecting to corporate network
In every modern management project where we use Azure AD Join instead of traditional domain join, there are always some network drives that needs to be mapped for the end users. Not very modern I know but there is a real world out there as well.When we use a modern client using sleep or hibernate…
Deploy Adobe Flash Removal update KB4577586 using MEMCM
Support for Adobe Flash is going away on the 31st of December 2020 as announced by Adobe back in 2017, https://www.adobe.com/se/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html In October 27th Microsoft released an update that will remove Adobe Flash Player, which is a good thing, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4577586/update-for-removal-of-adobe-flash-playerWe need to make sure it is removed as it is no longer supported = big…