Configuration Manager 1801 Technical preview contains some really cool features. The biggest one is defiantly the Phased Deployment option that we see the first version of. It basically adds a new deployment option to Task Sequences (I just assume it will be for applications in the future as well) called Phased deployment. It is similar…
Manage SCCM configuration items and baselines with community tools – 4Sysops
I wrote a post on a couple of tools to manage Configuration Items and Baselines in Configuration Manager over at 4SysOps. I covered four tools in that blog post. Registry to PowerShell converter (Reg2CI) by Roger Zander PowerShell Policy Editor by Roger Zander Configuration Manager Remote Compliance by Trevor Jones Create ConfigMgr Configuration Items from…
Troubleshoot boot issues and drivers by enabling Boot log during OSD
Troubleshooting driver issues when the computer stops during OSD when booting with the infamous circle showing or nothing at all showing is a big challenge. With all the modern 2-in-1 devices and devices using USB-C docking stations I have seen this a couple of times the last month. One option that at least gives us…
What’s new in Configuration Manager 1712 Technical preview AKA “MVP Edition”
Back in November during the Configuration Manager MVP Summit 2017 we did a hackathon that week which was amazing fun! Some of the features that was being worked on during that week is now in the Configuration Manager 2712 Technical Preview that was just released. The official documentation is here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/get-started/capabilities-in-technical-preview-1712 There are some really great…
Installing applications and packages dynamically during OSD
I wrote a post way back where I used a Powershell script to query AD group description for Applications to install dynamically during OS deployment in Configuration Manager. There was a couple of comments and recently a request to extend that script to also install packages dynamically during OS Deployment. The old post can be…
Configuration Manager 1711 Technical Preview is now released..
..and it was shipped by the MVP’s attending the Configuration Manager MVP Summit 2017! It was me and Kim Oppalfens(@TheWMIguy) who got to ship it as a reward for our competition on Twitter the last year on who’s is the fastest to test the new features in each Technical Preview! A great honor! As we…
Creating a dynamic Azure AD Group for Corporate owned devices
One of the most common requests I get when deploying Intune is that they want to deploy for instance a Certificate, VPN, WiFi or a specific app only to corporate owned devices and not personal(BYOD) devices. We have Dynamic groups in AzureAD that can solve this for us, however when I looked at the documentation…
News in Configuration Manager 1710 Technical Preview
Technical preview 1710 of Configuration Manager is packed with new great improvements. Every time a new Technical Preview is released it is always a great time playing around with the new features that are available and testing them out. This time around there are many great new features long asked for like support for 512×512…