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ConfigMgr 1906 was released today, it wont show up immediately in you ConfigMgr consoles, and I'd suggest to wait a week (or so) before applying to your production environments, but there are some really cool features. The pick of features for me at the moment are: Application groups Create a group of applications that you…
Continue readingThis is a follow up to this post : https://blog.adexis.com.au/2019/06/14/sccm-powershell-errors-after-moving-primary-site-server-via-site-failover/ Another issue i ran into this upgrade - which was far more interesting, was that all packages and task sequences which had windows 10 ticked within their "supported platforms" - the tick was now gone after upgrade. Now, before we go any further, i should…
Continue readingRecently i completed a somewhat challenging SCCM upgrade from: SCCM 2012 R2 Server 2008 SQL 2008 R2 2 SMS providers, 2 MP's, 130-odd DP's, SMP's 33,000 odd clients to: SCCM CB (1902 at time of upgrade) Server 2016 (latest the outsourcer would support) SQL 2016 (latest the outsourcer would support) Site server failover i know…
Continue readingfrom http://www.scconfigmgr.com/2018/09/24/deploy-win32-applications-with-microsoft-intune/ The ability to “package” applications for deployment in Microsoft Intune is something that has been highly requested by many organisations making the move to management of devices through Intune. Although there is a fundamental difference in deploying applications through Configuration Manager and Intune, Microsoft is developing tools to provide similar functionality across the…
Continue readingI came across an interesting issue today where I couldn't get applications to install on a specific piece of hardware during a task sequence. All task sequence steps would run fine, other than 'Application' installs - and they would work fine on other hardware. Looking in the smsts.log file, I could see the following error…
Continue readingConfigMgr 1806 was released yesterday morning https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/07/31/update-1806-for-configuration-manager-current-branch-is-now-available/ Couple of nice usability features: CMPivot , building off our real-time script capability. CMPivot is a new in-console utility that provides access to real-time state of devices in your environment. With CMPivot, you can get instant insights into your environment. Need to know your current compliance state in…
Continue readingWe often create one task sequence for all workstation builds and another for all server builds, utilising task sequence variables to perform the decision making within the task sequence. One of the downsides of this is that the task sequence binaries can get quite large, especially for server builds where we have current and legacy…
Continue readingCurrently i am creating some server builds for a place which will be deploying large numbers of servers over the coming months. One of things that is/was taking up a great deal of time was offline servicing for the base OS, primarily because the SCCM server is currently sitting on a virtual environment with disk…
Continue readingIn the distant past, we would generally say to clients "Leave WSUS admin alone - the SCCM settings will take precedence, so there is no point in using it" As the years have passed, and the number of updates available has grown considerably, this is no longer the case. The SCCM settings still take precedence…
Continue readingSo you've just picked up your shiny new Microsoft Surface Laptop and want to put your current Windows 10 Enterprise SOE on it. Of course you have it all set up in SCCM (right?), so you figure you'll kick off a build and be up and running in a half hour or so. Granted, the…
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