During my session at Techdays Sweden I demoed the new Run Script feature both in Configuration Manager 1706 and the enhancements made in the Technical preview after and showed how a variable can be used. In the first demo I used the below Powershell script sample that will collect all SCCM Client log files in…
What’s new in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1709
After Ignite where Co-Management was announced, where we can manage a Windows 10 client both using SCCM on premise and using Intune and AzureAD, we can now test out this feature in Configuration Manager 1709 Technical Preview! While Co-Management is the biggest new feature in 1709TP, the VPN Profile creation wizard has gotten a whole…
Test application installers in System context using a Schedule Task
When deploying an Application using SCCM or Intune for that matter, the installation is run in System Context if you don’t select to run it as the user. I have answered this question I think once a day this week on Technet forum where the application fails when deployed using SCCM but works when tested…
Event forwarding and writing it to a SQL Database
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…
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…
SCCM remote control and the ”Access this computer from the network” setting
When chasing high-privileged accounts as they are a risk, this is a question I have seen many times. In the Security Compliance templates from Microsoft (even the latest for RS2) the setting “Access this computer from the network” is recommended to be set to “Administrators” and “Remote Desktop Users” which is a good recommendation! It…
Apply native Driver packages dynamically using Driver Manager
Another great tool and post by my colleague Johan Schrewelius! A while ago we had a customer whose Task Sequence suddenly exceeded the maximum allowed size, mainly because of a vast number of “Apply Driver Package” steps. To remediate the issue, we looked at several different solutions to apply driver packages dynamically. It turned out…
What’s new in Configuration Manager 1708 Technical Preview
Today Technical Preview 1708 was released! Great new stuff as always. The Configuration Manager team release 15 releases of Configuration Manager in a year, 3 Current branch releases and 12 Technical Preview releases! That is simply amazing!! The Configuration Manager product team is doing an amazing job and the products capabilities goes beyond my wildest…