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…
Category: Configuration Manager
Enabling strong authentication in ConfigMgr Admin Console
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…
MEMCM Tenant attach: Device sync and device actions TP 2002.2 a first look
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…
Distribute Drivers at Mach speed
This is a report from the “Onevinn utility research kitchen” where we have spent a few days contemplating and testing driver distribution during OSD. Driver distribution appears to be the talk of the town and new solutions keep popping up at a high rate. Most of these solutions target bandwidth utilization and involves distributing compressed…
MEMCM App Groups – reverse uninstall order TP 2001.2
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…
MEM Co-Management workload Mobile Apps
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…
Deploy Edge Chromium using MEMCM and PowerShell executionpolicy
Been testing Edge Chromium deployment a lot the last couple of days as the we are getting really close to release when I write this.. Configuration Manager 1910 has a builtin feature to deploy and update Edge Chromium which looks great, hard to test the update part as the Stable release and updates are not…
Application Groups in Configuration Manager 1910
Application groups have been around for some Technical Preview releases and it was introduced in Current branch 1906. In MEMCM 1910 we got to new features: Deploy to User collections Allow end user to uninstall an available app group. It is the latest of the two we will look into in this post, Uninstall. Being…