“Application approval in the latest version of Configuration Manager 1806/1810 has gotten a lot of love! It’s one of the biggest changes to application deployment in many years. It still needs some finishing touches, but it’s well worth it to try it out and perhaps start using it.” I wrote a blog post over at…
Category: Configuration Manager
Wake up single Computer or collection of Computers in ConfigMgr 1810 using PowerShell
In Configuration Manager a new way of waking up computers exists. We can Wake Up a single computer or all computers in a collection using the Client Notification channel, no need to configure Wake-On-LAN in Configuration Manager site settings and no need to ask the network team to turn on Subnet-Directed Broadcast. We tested it…
Updated script to Remove Builtin apps in Windows 10 1809
I while back I wrote a script and published it on Github that allows us to run one step in our Task Sequence to remove the builtin apps and it reads two text files for each version of Windows 10 so we have total control of what we uninstall. It is really simple to update…
Make CMTrace the default log viewer using PowerShell
Now that CMTrace is a part of the Configuration Manager client which is really great!, I still miss the fact that it is not made the default .log reader. It will save me at least 3 clicks 😉 on each machine I troubleshoot. Here is a simple PowerShell script that will associate .Log and .Lo_…
Windows 10 1809 kiosk mode with an AD domain account
One of the great new features in Windows 10 1809 is that Microsoft Edge now supports kiosk mode. It is extremely easy to configure and long awaited, so we don’t have to use Internet Explorer or Google Chrome for our kiosk computers anymore. Setting up Windows 10 1809 in kiosk mode using Intune is really easy…
Bitlocker Compliance using SCCM including Hardware encryption check
A quick post on how to check Bitlocker compliance where all computers with “Hardware” encryption is used will also be marked as non compliant which can be useful after the recent security advisory for SSD’s with Hardware encryption: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2018/11/06/microsoft-ssd-security-advisory.aspx?fbclid=IwAR21wX_6S32eyqdRXDeoNqdjb6DZw8UPNXT_d2FQ8pdH52Jop9lvx7g6Tko And the Security advisory from Microsoft on the topic. https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/ADV180028 This started with a discussion with…
Remote tools service gets “Automatic” start in Configuration Manager TP 1810.2
The great feeling when you get an email from Uservoice that your uservoice item has been implemented in the latest Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1810.2!! This is one thing I always change, the Startup of the SCCM Remote Tools service on the clients to Automatic instead of Automatic(delayed). That is one of the biggest complaints…
Windows 10 upgrade assessment using Onevinn TSLaunch
Today version 2 of the “Onevinn Windows 10 Upgrade tools” was released and there are many new great features in there created by my colleague Johan Schrewelius. It can be downloaded here: Onevinn – Applications (schrewelius.it) More information on what TSlaunch is can be found here: https://ccmexec.com/2018/05/windows-10-upgradeservicing-tools-demoed-at-mms-2018/ I will try to cover at least some of…