I wrote a blog post over at 4Sysops.com about how to use event forwarding to capture events from clients and then write it to SQL. I have been using this for years now and there are so many ways this can be used, Applocker – Which apps are blocked, Windows 10 projects – how do…
Category: Windows 10
Launching a task Sequence using an Application link in ConfigMgr 1706
With the new feature in Configuration Manager 1706 that makes it possible to launch Software center and show the correct application from a direct link in Software Center which is great! We can copy the link and email it to the user for instance. I have a customer that wanted to send out a mail…
ConfigMgr Windows 10 Baseline, Laps, Applocker, Credential guard
I have written a couple of posts now on Configuration Items and Baselines in Configuration Manager so I thought it was time to collect them all here with a call for action! Create your own CI’s and Baseline to make sure that you don’t have any configuration drift out there. Many settings are configured using…
Restricting Settings in Windows 10 1703
In Windows 10 1703 – Creators Update there is a new Group Policy setting that actually allows us to control what is visible in “Settings” for our users. This is useful for computers with a specific purpose for instance or other business requirements. The policy is called “Settings Page Visibility” it can be used to…
Remove Mixed Reality portal in Windows 10 1703 and ”stuborn” apps
In previous versions of Windows 10, before 1703 built-in apps that couldn’t be uninstalled could still be blocked with Applocker so that they never got installed and it has worked great! With Windows 10 1703 there are two apps that I have identified as not being able to uninstall, it is not a Windows Capability…
Setting Google as the default search engine in MS Edge in 1703 using GPO
In Windows 10 1703 we have some new really great new Group Policy settings for Microsoft Edge, the most important making it possible to sync favorites between Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. We can also set the default search enginge to something else than Bing with group policies. To do this we first need to…
New Windows 10 Group Policies in Windows 10 1703
Windows 10 1703 is here! And is has some great new features as always, we are still waiting for the official .ADMX files and the documentation on what GPO’s are new and have changed. Some are changed like the Credential Guard setting where we have more options. I did a quick comparision so there are…
UE-V Windows 10 1607 Powershell and UE-V Template share
To follow up on my post earlier this week about how to enable UE-V during OSD and get it to sync Internet Explorer favorites I will cover UE-V templates Powershell and a template share. In UE-V we can define a central template share where we can drop a UE-V template and the clients will automatically…