Not the longest post in the world but “Groups” are going to be quite pivotal in how you manage users and devices in Azure AD. In this post we will cover the basic Azure AD group and membership types. We will also look at how we can create Groups in both the Azure AD Portal […]
Azure AD Groups – in a nutshell Read More »
I am putting together a Co-management deep dive series in the coming weeks (**UPDATE** Here it is). One of the things that has intrigued me is the “Capabilities” value when looking at Co-management workloads. The values have changed in 1906 and can be found below Capability Workload 1 No Workloads – Co-management Configured 2 Compliance
SCCM 1906 Co-management Capabilities Matrix Read More »
One of the more common prerequisite warnings I see when updating SCCM in my lab is:- [Completed with warning]:The site database has a backlog of SQL change tracking data. For more information, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2027576 SCCM Update Pack Installation Status We can see the same warning in ConfigMgrPreReq.log What does this warning mean? Starting in SCCM
“The site database has a backlog of SQL change tracking data” Read More »
Background One of the things I have been trying to improve is the users “first logon” experience in Windows 10. Waiting for the OneDrive sync client to “do its thing” reminded me of that one kid in the class that could be awesome if they tried harder. After the user profile is created (another post
The Challenge One of the challenges when managing an Azure AD Hybrid Join implementation is monitoring the number of devices registered to each Azure AD user. The default “limit” in Azure AD is 20 devices for each user. This number can quickly be reached in a shared computer environment, especially for your power user accounts
Get Users from Azure AD with a large number of Registered Devices Read More »
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
Deploy RSAT for Windows 10 1809 using SCCM Read More »
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
Generate Office 365 PAC Files with PowerShell Read More »
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
Using PowerShell with Microsoft Graph to query Intune Devices Read More »
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
Identifying and Updating SCCM Collection Evaluations with PowerShell Read More »
So you are on-boarding user mailboxes to Exchange Online and your user does not have a <domain>.mail.onmicrosoft.com smtp address. STOP. Your mailbox migration will fail without it. (Maybe you know this and this is why you are here 🙂 ) If you used the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard, by default, <domain>.mail.onmicrosoft.com) is added as a
O365 – How to add a mail.onmicrosoft.com smtp address using PowerShell Read More »
