Techdays 2015 in Sweden 21-22 October is THE event of the year in Sweden! It always have great content, great speakers, and a great time meeting the IT community. This year I have the great honor to be presenting a session, “Windows 10 + EMS =TRUE” together with my collegue Anders Olsson (http://itsakerhetsguiden.se/) (in Swedish)…
Driver issues when deploying Windows 7 x64 using x86 boot image SCCM 2012
I have many customers who have experienced the same issue deploying 64-bit Windows 7 using a 32-bit boot image. The error has not been consistent either the Apply Driver Package step fails and the DISM log file indicates that it cannot read the Software Hive from the registry or the machine blue-screen on first boot….
Intune and SCCM 2012 Hybrid and Alternate Login ID in Azure AD =True
I am writing this post as I had two customers that wanted to use alternate Login ID in Azure AD together with Intune and SCCM 2012 in a Hybrid deployment using SCCM as the MDM Authority. I found several blogs and a Wiki that described that this wasn’t supported and that unsupported scripting directly to…
Displaying OSDComputername in MDT WinPE background picture
One very appreciated feature in Configuration Manager 2012 when you integrate it with MDT is the background pictures showing OS deployment step, IP Address, MAC Address and so on to the end user och technician deploying the computer. The first two steps are shown in WinPE only and under Computer Name in the background the…
SCCM 2012 R2 client fails to install Windows 10 Build 10049 or newer
When testing the latest Build of Windows 10 I got an error installing the Configuration Manager 2012 R2 client, it fails installing the Windows Update agent with the following error in the CCMSetup.log file. “File ‘C:\WINDOWS\ccmsetup\WindowsUpdateAgent30-x64.exe’ returned failure exit code 775. Fail the installation.” I assume a solution to this error will presented soon, but…
Changing startup to Automatic on the SCCM Remote Control Service
One thing that many of my customers both Servicedesk staff, Support staff and administrators complain about with Configuration Manager 2012 Remote Tools is that the client service is set to Automatic (Delayed Start) when installed per default. When remote controlling a user’s machine and a reboot is necessary, the service doesn’t start immediately and it…
Standalone Intune and Safari on iOS in Kiosk mode
I had a scenario at a customer where I needed to set and iOS device in Kiosk Mode with the only allowed app, the Safari browser. Currently in Microsoft Intune Standalone when you select Kiosk Mode you have to select either a Managed App or a Store App when you select the Kiosk Mode option….
Creating and deploying a custom iOS policy using Intune
I have a new favorite feature in standalone Intune, custom iOS Policy. This lets you basically deploy a XML file with the supported configuration information you want to set on an iOS device even if it isn’t available in the Intune console, like deploying a Wi-Fi network with WPA2 and a Password. The easiest way…