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…
Intune Win32 App deployment – A gamechanger
One of the biggest limitations in Microsoft Intune has been that we can only deploy single-file .MSI’s and not .EXE installers. With the release of Win32app install support (in Preview) that limitation is now gone! Not only does it support legacy setups like .exe files for instance we can also use it for advanced .MSI…
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…
Using Google Chrome Roaming Profile settings with UE-V
In my work to get Google Chrome being a good citizen in an enterprise environment it is not time to look at roaming the Chrome settings. Chrome has support for roaming profile data and it can be enabled using a Group Policy which is great. Is it perfect, no it doesn’t roam Extensions for example….
How to show OOBE for AzureAD Join after OSD with SCCM
Updated 2021-06-09 – Added some additional cleanup in the script to make sure it removes the CM client, otherwise the computer will be “co-managed” in Intune even if it isn’t. Also added info about the SkipOOBE in unattend.xml I am writing this post because I am lazy and already have Configuration Manager in my lab….
Managing Google Chrome version 69 and later using Intune
Google Chrome has a great set of Group Policy settings we can configure which makes it possible for us to even use Chrome in environments with high-security requirements, and we can also do this with Intune as it supports ADMX ingestion and ADMX backed policies! Starting with Google Chrome version 69 and later it supports…
Onevinn Windows 10 Upgrade tools – UPGBackground
My dear colleague Johan Schrewelius has created some awesome tools for making it easier to upgrade/service Windows 10 to Windows 10 releases using a Task Sequence. We will start this blog series with a post on one of the tools UPGBackground. For those of you who use OSDBackground we can call it OSDBackgrounds little sister…
CMpivot = Configuration Manager goes real-time!
I have worked with SMS/SCCM for many years now and the last 20 years a common question has been “we need to know which computers have a specific file present now!” or “we need to know which computers that have this software installed and we need to know it now”. We have never been able…