At the client I’m currently working for, we have FIVE different deployments of Office 365 Client within Microsoft Enterprise Configuration Manager. The business decided that they only wanted users to have exactly what was needed. Essentially, this is the legacy approach to Office deployment in the MSI days where you could fully customise which components were installed and was easy … Read More
To Trust Or Not To Trust (UNSIGNED DRIVERS): That Is The Question
This post is intended to help others who might want to better understand why their Operating System Deployment (OSD) task sequence (TS) is failing during the Setup Windows and Configuration Manager step with an error code of 0x80004005 and how to identify the unsigned drivers in your driver package that might be causing it. Maybe my google-fu was failing me, … Read More
Intune/Autopilot Setup Companion Guide Part 2 – Windows Store for Business
Purpose The following blog posts will be a companion guide to Steve and Adam’s Intune training videos found at Intune.Training (this covers Episode 3) and will help you get the Windows Store for Business (WSfB, also known as Microsoft Store for Business) setup in your environment. This guide assumes that you already have followed Part 1 of this series and already have … Read More
NET-102: Build your lab
Welcome back! We’re now going to move on to the actual effort it takes to build your lab. As you recall we got pretty far last time in documenting the beginnings of our network. For this lab I’ll be using VMWare Workstation, but you can accomplish this with Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, the free tier of VMWare’s ESX, or XCP-NG. … Read More
Windows Virtual Desktop: Creation and Management
THIS GUIDE IS NOW OUTDATED WITH THE RELEASE OF WVD 2.0 I will create a new blog with the updated info in the future! Some of the info below is still valid! Why Windows Virtual Desktop? Windows Virtual Desktop allows you to create virtual Windows 10 machines that can be accessed from virtually anywhere. This means you can give someone … Read More
Reprovision Windows 10 Apps… Wait, What?
Remember when we all complained that Microsoft “wasn’t respecting our app removals!” and they were all reinstalled during every feature update? Pepperidge farm remembers. Well, Microsoft was kind enough to hear our collective complaints, and take action on them. That is an awesome quality that we are seeing from the product teams at Microsoft. Starting in Windows 10 1803, deprovisioned … Read More
Intune/Autopilot Setup Companion Guide Part 1
Purpose The following blog posts will be a companion guide to Steve and Adam’s Intune training videos found at intune.training (this covers Episode 1 and 2) and will help you get Autopilot going in your environment. This guide assumes that you already have office 365 and azure configured. By the end of this guide you will have a working bare … Read More
How to use modules and package providers during OSD with MECM (SCCM/MEMCM)
For the past few days, I’ve been implementing SnipeIT into our environment to start actually tracking assets as opposed to the archaic spreadsheet we had going. I wanted to add any new machine that were imaged into the database right away without any input from me. That way, all I had to do was assign a user to the device … Read More