Now that Cloud Management Gateway (Classic Service classic) is deprecated and will be removed in the future releases of Configuration Manager after 1 March 2022 we can now longer deploy a CMG using the cloud service (classic). This is most likely due the fact that Classic VMs is being removed in Azure as the link…
Great stuff in MEMCM Tech Preview 2201
It was a while ago since I wrote a post on what’s new in MEMCM Tech Previews but I could not help myself this time, some great stuff in this one! It it amazing that the Product Group ships at least 12 Technical previews each year with new features both small and large. In this…
Remote help for Intune/MEM
I wrote a post on 4Sysops.com on the new Remote Help feature in Intune/MEM. A great and long awaited feature as we today need to buy a separate product or use Quick Assist which is built in and free but has many limitations (and should be removed from all corporate managed devices). In Configuration Manager…
IPUInstaller update with Windows 11 and MUI Support
IPUInstaller is a community tool from my Co-Worker Johan Schrewelius that gives us another option to do Windows Upgrades with control and less user-down time. A new version has been released that includes Windows 11 support which is great!I have blogged about IPUInstaller before https://ccmexec.com/2021/02/windows-servicing-in-the-work-from-anywhere-era-using-ipuinstaller/ and here is a short video how it could look…
Troubleshooting Windows 10/11 Enterprise subscription is not valid
Wrote a blog post on how to Troubleshoot Windows 10/11 Subscription based activation over at 4Sysops. The issue we saw show up as Windows 10 Enterprise subscription is not valid as shown below. It turns out the If there is more than one Azure AD account added under “Access work or School”, they will fail…
Configure Windows 11 Start Menu folders using PowerShell
One of my favorite features in Windows 11 is the folders we can enable on the Start Menu. They are discrete and easy to access. Unfortunately, the Start Menu folders are not enabled by default which I would very much approve if they were! These are the folders we are talking about. They can manually…
Customizing Windows 11 default Start Menu during OSD using LayoutModification.json
In Windows 11 we can no longer deploy a custom Start Menu layout as we could in Windows 10. We don’t have any “Partial” managed option either as we had in Windows 10. The Group Policy “Start Layout” can still be used to deploy a custom Taskbar layout, HOWEVER the end user can no longer…
Customize default Windows 11 Start Menu using Intune
Now the time has come to look at customizing the default Windows 11 Start Menu. Customizing the Start Menu using Intune is simple and works great by using the new CSP “ConfigureStartPins”. More information can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/customize-start-menu-layout-windows-11For on-premise there is no support for using the same feature either with PowerShell or Group Policy, however…