Configuration Manager 1704 Technical Preview was released yesterday, some really awesome stuff in there this time for all OSD fans for sure! If you aren’t running Technical Preview in a test environment you really should! It is a great way of getting to know the new features and a great way of providing feedback to…
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…
Data Warehouse feature in Configuration Manager 1702
In Configuration Manager 1702 there is a new feature /site system role(pre-release) called Data Warehouse. This is a great addition as I cannot count the time I have setup and configured another database and then on a schedule moved data to that Database instead to be used both for historical data and by other systems…
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…
ConfigMgr CI to check Applocker is configured and running
Applocker is used more and more so I wrote this little Powershell script that can be run as a Configuration Item which checks that the Application Identity service is running and an Applocker policy is applied. We could also do a remediation script to start the AppIDSvc again if stopped but I normally use a…
New features in ConfigMgr 1703 Technical Preview
Updated!! With the new features in OSD that Aaron Czechowski shared on Twitter! Thanks Aaron, great stuff! Every time a new Technical Preview of Configuration Manager is released is a late night upgrading and playing around with the new cool features! Last night it was time again TP 1703 was released. One of my favorite…
Automatically distribute packages to DP in ConfigMgr
I wrote a blog post a while ago where I used a vbscript that will distribute the content of newly added package and check the “copy content in this package to a package share on Distribution Points”. i still use it and it works great… My college Johan Schrewelius re-wrote it to use Powershell instead…
Copy and Zip OSD log files in a Task Sequence using Powershell
My college Johan Schrewelius wrote a script to copy log files from OSD to a network share like the functionality we have in MDT so I thought I would post it here as it is brilliant. It can be downloaded here: Onevinn – Scripts (schrewelius.it) The script “CopyOSDLogs.ps1” can be run anywhere in an OSD…