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Deploy RSAT for Windows 10 1809 using SCCM

Ben Whitmore / March 22, 2019 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft, Scripts

Starting Windows 10 1809 Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) is now included as a set of “Features on Demand”. In the following post we will show you how to deploy individual features with SCCM. The RSAT tools are added using the “Add-WindowsCapability” cmdlet https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dism/add-windowscapability?view=win10-psBecause we are deploying each feature with an appliction, we are going […]

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SCCM Lab Pre-Req Checklist for Server 2019 and SQL 2017

Ben Whitmore / February 10, 2019 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft

I decided to rebuild one of my LABs for SCCM 1902 Technical Preview. During the build, someone posed a question on Twitter for examples of scripts/material to get a LAB up and running. @ncbrady has a great post that goes into great detail for building out SCCM servers at:- https://www.windows-noob.com/forums/topic/16114-how-can-i-install-system-center-configuration-manager-current-branch-version-1802-on-windows-server-2016-with-sql-server-2017-part-1/ My post doesn’t go into

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Converting legacy packages into applications with SCCM 1810 Package Conversion Manager

Ben Whitmore / January 30, 2019 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft

Background Since SCCM 2012 Microsoft have been steering us towards using “applications” to install apps over the traditional “packages” method. Applications give us additional benefits over packages like detection methods, dependencies and requirement rules . An example might be:- Install APP-B if the folder “C:\Program Files\APP-B_FOLDER” doesn’t exist (detection), only if APP-A is already installed

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Generate Office 365 PAC Files with PowerShell

Ben Whitmore / January 25, 2019 / Microsoft, Office 365, Scripts

If you have a proxy server in your environment and are using (or thinking about using) Office 365 then you will hit some pain barriers. As awesome as Office 365 is, she just isn’t a fan of proxies. We used to be left to our own initiative, creating complex proxy bypass rules and guessing which

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Create an Intune App Protection Policy to force an app “Pin Reset” after x days

Ben Whitmore / January 11, 2019 / Intune, Microsoft

The Intune Team announced a nifty app protection policy addition for the “Week of January 7, 2019” edition > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/whats-new You can now change the number of days before the app PIN must be changed. This new policy works for both IOS and Android devices. Create an Intune App Protection Policy 1 . Navigate to

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Using PowerShell with Microsoft Graph to query Intune Devices

Ben Whitmore / January 8, 2019 / Intune, Microsoft, Scripts

What is Microsoft Graph? Microsoft Graph connects resources across Office 365 services. Using https://graph.microsoft.com you can connect to these services and access a wealth of resources, relationships and intelligence. You can read more on Microsoft Graph at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/overview How do I use Microsoft Graph? If you have a requirement to return a wealth of information

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Identifying and Installing SCCM Client Software Updates Remotely with PowerShell and trigger a VMware Snapshot before Remediation – Part 1 of 3

Ben Whitmore / December 28, 2018 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft

Try saying that title again without taking a breath, phew. We have been playing with ADRs (Automatic Deployment Rules) for a while now. The teams are slowly coming around to the idea that we are now delivering server updates in a more controlled fashion than WSUS could ever provide with useful reports icing the top

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Identifying and Updating SCCM Collection Evaluations with PowerShell

Ben Whitmore / December 17, 2018 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft, Scripts

I’ve seen this subject discussed and explained very well in other blogs. The following post is my approach and understanding on managing Collection Evaluations using a bit of PowerShell (ok so there is some SQL stuff in here too). Collection Evaluations A Collection Evaluation occurs on a defined schedule, event trigger or user initiation and

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SCCM Software Compliance Report Filtered by Update Classification and Update Age

Ben Whitmore / December 15, 2018 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft

This SSRS Report has been sitting in the side lines for a while now. After spending a bit more time on it over the weekend I feel it is now at a point where it is serving me rather than the other way around. Our teams wanted to know how many updates were outstanding for

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Windows 10 1809 – Basic WIM Optimization and Offline Servicing with SCCM

Ben Whitmore / December 11, 2018 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft

My good friend Leon over at http://leonashtonleatherland.blogspot.com/ posed a topic over chat re: Offline Servicing a WIM with SCCM. Not having looked at this before, I thought I would take the time to consider it for the new Windows 10 1809 WIM used in our OSD Task Sequences. This post covered the basics for modifying

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