A highlight of every month is when a new Configuration Manager Technical Preview is out! Always extremely fun to see and test out new features that is coming, some can be directly from a Uservoice suggestions. There are some amazing gems in MEMCM 2104 Technical Preview release! Cloud attach improvements, console improvements and last but…
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BitLocker Administration Service in MEMCM
Starting in ConfigMgr Current branch 1910 integrated BitLocker management (MBAM) is supported. This is all well and fine except one detail; it does not include the Administration Service Endpoint available in MBAM standalone. This endpoint is, most cases, crucial if you are using any kind of automation, management system, custom helpdesk tool or such. This…
New features in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1803
Close after Configuration Manager 1802 CB we got a new technical preview, 1803!! Some really great stuff in this one some is a result of the Hackathon we did at the MVP Summit in March. What is new then? PXE boot without the need for WDS and IPV6 support. This has been around for a…
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…
ConfigMgr Windows 10 Baseline, Laps, Applocker, Credential guard
I have written a couple of posts now on Configuration Items and Baselines in Configuration Manager so I thought it was time to collect them all here with a call for action! Create your own CI’s and Baseline to make sure that you don’t have any configuration drift out there. Many settings are configured using…
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 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…