Hey siri, write a blog post for me. Deploying the Configuration manager client is usually pretty simple. the procedure is well documented. However there are issues if you plan on installing the CM client during Autopilot using the officially suggested methods Mixing LOB and win32 applications will result in autopilot breaking, so you should use win32 apps exclusively, which somewhat … Read More
Use Azure Policy to configure Boot Diagnostics Settings
I found several posts about configuring Diagnostic Settings on VMs, but none that specified or included boot diagnostics. With this Azure Policy you can automatically enable Boot Diagnostics and apply a storage account to it. This is also a great base if you want to start testing out your own policies.
Creating an Ubuntu 20.04 cloud template & cloud-init configuration in Xen Orchestra
I had a need in my home lab to quickly deploy a bunch of thin clones of Ubuntu’s cloud image. I chose to use the cloud images Ubuntu provides instead of building a custom template. Xen Orchestra has had support for cloud-init since 2015. Quick Walkthrough Here is the short version of how this works: Download the current 20.04 ubuntu … Read More
Setting Environmental Variables with Intune and proactive remediations
As you may have noticed by now, there doesn’t seem to be any nice built in way to set environmental variables in intune 🙁 The Problem Setting a user environmental variable using powershell is an easy task to accomplish, you basically just run the following: This works just fine, but won’t take effect until the user either reboots or signs … Read More
Setting A Default Outlook Signature in Outlook using Intune Proactive Remediations
So you have already figured out how to dynamically generated outlook signatures, but now you want to make sure that people actually use them. but without preventing the use of other signatures your users might have. Well it just so happens that I have a solution for you! To do all this, we create a new Proactive Remediation in Intune. … Read More
Where is the report’s data??
Have you ever looked at a report on a Portal Page and wanted to know just WHERE the data just came from? Well you can – and finding the information can be so easy. Read on below to see how.
Working around NPS limitations for AADJ Windows devices
Introduction In this post, I’ll show you a workaround to get device based wireless authentication working for AADJ Windows devices via NPS. Keep in mind this is a workaround and your mileage may vary. Background NPS does not play nice when it comes to AADJ device authentication. There is a fantastic writeup on this issue here. The tl;dr of the … Read More
Updated Modern Driver/BIOS Management with CMG Support
Hello, This is a long and overdue update on a solution I started working on last year to allow my organization to use the modern driver management solution without the need of the custom webservice. I also wanted the solution to use the built-in task sequence steps as much as possible to allow other administrators to customize the solution to … Read More
Create a new WinPE boot image
Introduction In this post I’ll show you how you can create a new boot image in ConfigMgr. There’s plenty of good content out there already on this, but I was interested to write this because I didn’t see many PowerShell examples out there until I came across Michael Niehaus’ post on Build your own Windows PE image. A fantastic post, … Read More
Keeping Up with Distribution Points
Distribution Points are great, but they can often be a huge annoyance. Getting content distributed is one thing, but then making sure it STAYS distributed, and old things are getting cleaned up, and making sure all the content hashes are correct, etc. It’s easy to feel like you’re constantly drowning in a sea of DP warnings and errors. Luckily, there’s … Read More