Driver Automation Tool – Upgraded
With its roots back in 2016, the Driver Automation Tool has been one of those projects that started off as an internal tool, and quickly became something that people relied on to serve the need to...
View ArticleDeep Dive: Troubleshooting Windows Update Scan Source
Scan source behavior has always been a gray area, i’ve been down the rabbit hole several times, and in co-managed environments it has become genuinely difficult to get clarity. Between ConfigMgr,...
View ArticleRight Click Tools Community Edition: Co-Managed Device Actions in Intune
Co-managed environments force admins to bounce between ConfigMgr and the Intune admin center for everyday maintenance. The Right Click Tools Community Edition browser extension places a set of...
View ArticleSimplifying App Deployment, Security, and Self‑Service
Managing enterprise applications is no small feat. IT admins often face the daily grind of deploying software across diverse environments, patching vulnerabilities, and handling an avalanche of...
View ArticleDevice Refreshes Simplified with Endpoint Insights
Finding Devices in need of Replacement To start the device refresh process, endpoint managers first need to identify endpoints for replacement this year. Many organizations go about this in their own...
View ArticleMoving to the Cloud. Co-management workloads and capabilities (revisited)
In this post I will revisit Co-management workloads, capabilities and take a walk down memory lane. BackgroundConfiguration Manager “The steady ship”Intune “The Cloud”Co-management “The...
View ArticleHow to Streamline BitLocker Management in ConfigMgr
Importance of BitLocker While we often speak of cyber security in terms of access to privileged accounts and our organization’s systems, there is another piece of the security puzzle that is just as...
View ArticleTask Sequence Basics – Intel Optane Drives
In this blog post we cover the unusual characteristics of the Intel Optane drive, and how we need to approach task sequence builds to ensure we do not hit an unforeseen issue when it comes to in-place...
View ArticleWindows Update Settings Compliance
In this post I will show you how to use Proactive Remediations and Log Analytics, together, to ensure Windows Update Settings are Optimal and Compliant on your devices. This post comes on the back of...
View ArticleWIM Witch v3.3.0 – Remote Configuration Manager Integration
Version 3.3.0 of WIM Witch brings independence from the Primary Site Server for those leveraging Configuration Manager integration. This means that WIM Witch isn’t subject to DISM limitations of older...
View ArticleUpdate Compliance – Checking client prerequisites
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View ArticleWIM Witch v3.2.0 – Windows 11 and Server 2022 Support
This release of WIM Witch brings support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 image servicing. While building in the support, decisions were made to bring package handling for Windows Server in-line...
View Article5 Ways to Get Ahead with ConfigMgr and Endpoint Insights
Is your organization transitioning from working at home to going back to the office? We want to help make this as seamless as possible. How? Endpoint Insights gives you the most comprehensive view of...
View ArticleWIM Witch v3.1 – 21H1 Support, Some Fixes, Some Bugs
This release of WIM Witch brings support for Windows 10 21H1! Adding support for this operating system presented unique challenges as Microsoft didn’t correctly update a key image property that is...
View ArticleRunning custom actions during a Windows 10 Feature Update with Configuration...
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...
View ArticleAutomatically Migrate Applications from ConfigMgr to Intune with the Win32App...
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...
View ArticleRepair a broken trust relationship between a workstation and the domain
I was attending the SCUG Sweden meeting at Microsoft offices in Stockholm on the 8-9 of October. During the second day, one of the session was a copy of the Community Session from MMS 2018. This...
View ArticleWhen Co-Management Goes Bad: The case of Windows 10 IPU and the missing MDM...
Windows 10 in-place upgrades are something that many organisations have refined over the years, moving from build to build as to align their machines with support from Microsoft and get the latest...
View ArticleWIM Witch v2.3.0 – ISO Creation, Upgrade Packages, Optional and Dynamic...
This release of WIM Witch adds a feature that has been requested since the initial release of WIM Witch – creating an ISO. While creating an ISO only requires a single executable and a single command...
View ArticleDeploy Microsoft 365 Apps with “no content”
You most likely know how to deploy applications from ConfigMgr. Usually, you would package all the source files in a single folder to build our deployment. But when it comes to configuring and...
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