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I Wrote An App – Azure Status Alerts
While studying for the 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam (of which I...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 05/17/2015
The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide – Stage 5: Enrol Your Devices (Windows 8.1)
Now that we’ve got our ConfigMgr and Intune environments speaking nicely to each other, we can start...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 04/12/2015
The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide – Stage 5: Enrol Your Devices (Android)
Now that we’ve got our ConfigMgr and Intune environments speaking nicely to each other, we can start...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 04/09/2015
The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide – Stage 5: Enrol Your Devices (iOS 7)
Now that we’ve got our ConfigMgr and Intune environments speaking nicely to each other, we can start...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 04/07/2015
The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide – Stage 5: Enrol Your Devices (Windows Phone 8.1)
Now that we’ve got our ConfigMgr and Intune environments speaking nicely to each other, we can start...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 04/07/2015
Enable Windows Phone management via Intune without Symantec Certificate
As part of my mega-post The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide, we enable the Mobile Device Management...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 04/02/2015
The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide – Stage 4: Enable ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Management
Now that we’ve setup our Intune cloud services, it’s time to integrate the service with our on-prem...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2015
The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide – Stage 3: Sync accounts from on-prem
So far in this series, we’ve signed up to the Intune service and configured our public domain. In...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2015
The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide – Stage 1: Sign-up
My Configuration Manager labs have taking a massive hiding over the last 12 months, with lots of...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2015
Associating your Intune DirSync Directory with your Azure tenant
Cloud identity is one of the core features and benefits of using the Azure platform. Fortunately,...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 03/19/2015
The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide – Stage 2: Configure Your Public Domain
We started The Ultimate Intune Setup Guide by signing up to the Intune service in the previous post....
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 03/10/2015
Different scenarios for using Prestaged content
Hi All, Late last year I had a request from one of my customers to look into the different...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 03/10/2015
ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Certificate Requirements and HTTPS configuration
We have had a number of recent requests from our customers on the certificate requirements and...
Author: Ian Bartlett Date: 01/21/2015
PowerShell Script to Create and Link Schedules in Azure Automation
Hi All, Lately I've been playing with Azure automation and needed to create schedules to kick...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 01/19/2015
DPUpgradeThreadLimit Modification
I’ve recently spent some time with a customer deploying a large amount of Distribution Points...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2014
Script to remind Office 365 users to enrol their device to InTune
When I have a little downtime (which isn’t often!), I like to sit around and think of cool things I...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2014
PowerShell Script to check active package distributions
Hi All,I had a need at a customer to write a script that would identify any active package...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 12/02/2014
20 Years Of SMS/Configuration Manager
On the 7th of November 1994, a little product called Systems Management Server (SMS) 1.0 was...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 11/05/2014
Managing APP-V Deployments in ConfigMgr 2012
Many customers are still configuring collection structures similar to 2007 and using collections to...
Author: Ian Bartlett Date: 11/02/2014
Monitoring ConfigMgr Clients Using System Center Operations Manager
Microsoft MVP and my Premier customer from last week, Tao Yang was telling me about his custom SCOM...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 10/12/2014
R2 CU3 Management point communications update
Hi All, with the release of R2 CU3 we now have the ability to restrict which Management points a...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 09/30/2014
First 100 at TechEd Melbourne
Morning Gang, Well, TechEd Australia 2014 is less than two weeks away, and Ian, George and I are...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 09/22/2014
TechEd 2014 Australia: ConfigMgrDogs Troubleshoot ConfigMgr 2012 (Melbourne)
Hey ConfigMgrDogers! The TechEd 2014 Australia schedule has been announced, and confirmed...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2014
WMI / Powershell and the Configuration Manager Client
A bit about me first :- my name is Anthony Watherston and I’m a Premier Field Engineer in Melbourne....
Author: Anthony Watherston Date: 09/03/2014
BREAKING: ConfigMgrDogs Together for Teched 2014!
The ConfigMgrDogs boys will be getting together to deliver at TechEd Australia 2014! George, Ian and...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 08/26/2014
Modern Style ConfigMgr Visio Stencil
I went searching for some nice looking ConfigMgr Visio Stencils this morning and found the most...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2014
Test your Collection WQL queries using WBEMTEST and PowerShell
Hi All, one of the most useful tips I've learnt on the job is to use WBEMTEST on your Primary...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 08/20/2014
PowerShell Script to list Software Updates in a Software Update Group
Hi everybody, In a recent Workshop that I was teaching I got asked how to list all of the security...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 08/08/2014
ConfigMgrDogs on Twitter
We’ve finally got an official ConfigMgrDogs Twitter...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 08/07/2014
Creating Custom RBAC Enabled Reports in ConfigMgr 2012 R2
This post will step you through the process of creating custom reports in ConfigMgr 2012 R2 that...
Author: Ian Bartlett Date: 07/13/2014
Application Catalog Failed – “Application installation not started”
The application could not be installed. The most common reason is that software does not support the...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 06/30/2014
ConfigMgr 2012 Windows Update Client Process
Hi Gang! So I provided this information to one of my customers recently, and Georgy said it would be...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2014
Orchestrator 2012 Logging and Debug Logging
Hi All, If you’ve started playing with Orchestrator I have detailed the areas where you can look for...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 03/02/2014
ConfigMgr 2012+ Version Numbers
UPDATED 11th of November 2017 Hi all, as requested I’ve just listed all the ConfigMgr 2012 Released...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 02/07/2014
I Wrote An App
Hi Gang. Over the long weekend last week, I thought I’d have a crack at writing, submitting and...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 02/02/2014
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Toolkit
Hi Everyone,just a very quick note to let you know that the Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Toolkit is...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 12/22/2013
Understanding ConfigMgr 2012 APP-V Virtual Environments
ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 introduced APP-V Virtual Environments (VE). APP-V VE’s work differently to APP-V...
Author: Ian Bartlett Date: 12/22/2013
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 New Group Policy Settings
Windows 8 RTM For full details, download the following file Policy Setting Name ...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2013
Software Update Compliance Reports – Detection State Unknown
I have been working with a number of customers recently that have had issues running their monthly...
Author: Ian Bartlett Date: 11/06/2013
Migrating App-V Packages– "OSD file defines incompatible OS requirements”
Ran into an interesting issue while trying to migrate some App-V Applications from ConfigMgr 2007 to...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2013
Supported AV clients for SCEP to automatically remove
I’ve just spent a frustrating 10 minutes searching bing/google for the list of the supported...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2013
Redistribute Package in Configuration Manager 2012
One pain point with Configuration Manager 2007, was that when a package failed to distribute content...
Author: George Smpyrakis Date: 09/30/2013
TechEd Australia 2013 - PowerShell for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 - Demo 2
Demo 2: Connecting via PowerShellImporting the ConfigMgr moduleImport-Module 'C:Program Files...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2013
TechEd Australia 2013 - PowerShell for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 - Demo 4
Demo 4: PackagesAutomatically create Package from source directory, create Deployment Type, create...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2013
TechEd Australia 2013 - PowerShell for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 - Demo 3
Demo 3: Collections Creating a single Collection New-CMDeviceCollection -LimitingCollectionName "All...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2013
TechEd Australia 2013 - PowerShell for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Content
Update: here is the video of my session (link below for full resolution video)...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2013
TechEd Australia 2013 - PowerShell for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 - Demo 5
Demo 5: App Approvals Script for System Tray notification, pop-up form and Approve/Deny an...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2013
TechEd Australia 2013 - PowerShell for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 - Demo 6
Demo 6: Five Demos in Five MinutesList the drivers in a given Boot Image$BootImage =...
Author: Matt Shadbolt [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2013