At MMS 2017 in Minneapolis me and Ryan Ephgrave @EphingPosh had the great honor of doing a session on some of the great Community tools out there for Configuration Manager. We did it last year as well with the help of Kent Agerlund and it is always great fun, just preparing it, researching looking for…
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…
ConfigMgr CI to check that Credential Guard is running
I posted a Configuration Manager Configuration Item and Baseline a while back that checks to see if Applocker is configured and running. Another important thing to check on Windows 10 is that Credential Guard is configured and running. Credential Guard is an extremely important security feature in Windows 10 and should be used and of…
News in Configuration Manager 1704 TP
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…