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Running custom actions during a Windows 10 Feature Update with Configuration Manager

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Deploying Windows 10 Feature Updates in your organisation can be approached in multiple ways. As we merge the perimeter with the Cloud some of us are trying to understand the best way to deliver Feature Updates to our devices. Should we deploy an in-place upgrade using a ConfigMgr task sequence? Perhaps we should push the Feature Update directly from ConfigMgr to our devices. Have we considered leveraging our CMG and using Microsoft as a source for the update binaries to save our VPNs? Maybe some of us are on a co-management journey and are looking at using WUfB. Which ever technology we are leveraging one of the questions that normally gets asked is “Can we control the update process in a way that lets us ‘Run Stuff’ after the Feature Update has completed”.

Automatically Migrate Applications from ConfigMgr to Intune with the Win32App Migration Tool

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Win32App Migration Tool is a free community tool that has been developed to do the scoping and heavy lifting for you as you consider building Win32apps in Intune while using your ConfigMgr apps as a reference. The tool is designed to inventory ConfigMgr Applications and Deployment Types, build .intunewin files and create Win32apps directly in the MEM admin center.

User-Driven Home Drive Migrations to OneDrive using MEMCM

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This script wont necessarily fit your environment, it may do with tweaking, but my hope is that it will give you an idea of how you can approach different challenges using the different tools in you arsenal.

How to Uninstall Adobe Flash Player from Windows 10 with ConfigMgr

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Update 22/01/21

I have now modified the script to include support for Windows Servers. In this tutorial, when prompted to download the updates from the Microsoft Update Catalog for “Windows 10”, also include updates for the server versions you plan to deploy the update to.

Reports missing in the Configuration Manager Console

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

You may have seen No Items Found when looking at the Monitoring > Reporting > Reports node in the Configuration Manager console

Microsoft Edge stops receiving updates after the Windows Update workload is moved to Intune

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Many organisation are moving workloads to Intune from Configuration manger using Co-management. One of the more popular workloads to move is Windows Updates. After you move this workload to Intune, you may observe that your clients stop receiving updates for Microsoft Edge.

Office 365 updates stop working when workloads are switched to Intune

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The following post will highlight a scenario where Office 365 Updates stop working for clients that have the Office C2R Apps workload moved to Intune. This was a “Think and write it down blog” so my apologies for the structure (or lack of it) - I hope you can still follow my train of thought.

Deploy Service Announcement Toast Notifications in Windows 10 with MEMCM

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

You may have seen that many apps these days use “Toast Notifications” to inform the user of an event or to ask them to do something. If you have moved your workload to Intune for Windows Update Policies you would have encountered them for sure. UWP and Desktop Apps can leverage the ToastNotification and ToastNotificationManager Class from the Windows.UI.Notifications Namespace to create ToastNotifier objects to send a Toast Notification similar to below

Using MEMCM to fix legacy GPO settings that prevent co-managed clients getting updates from Intune

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Background

Co-management has really opened the playing field as we consider moving workloads to the cloud. I did a blog series on co-management before, check it out! https://byteben.com/bb/co-management-series-merging-the-perimeter-part-1-what-is-co-management/

How to Deploy Fonts with MEMCM

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I have been releasing a lot of “Quick Tips” on Twitter recently. This post falls into that category. It isn’t necessarily a deep dive but something that has been requested a few times. In this post I will show you how to deploy SYSTEM Fonts using MEMCM (ConfigMgr)