Back in January 2019 I wrote a series on setting up and customising MBAM (), a product that was part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack, and a product that at the time was earmarked for retirement. At the time...
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Maurice Daly
Enable Tenant Attach in ConfigMgr with Microsoft Endpoint Manager for device upload and remote actions
Lately there’s been a lot of talk about the newly introduced Microsoft Endpoint Manager solution, that’s aiming for bringing together the best from both worlds, where devices in both ConfigMgr and Intune can...
Nickolaj Andersen
The case of the expired Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) server authentication certificate
The call We got a call from a customer stating that they where having issues with their cloud management gateway not working. I did spend some time on figuring out what the issue was so I though I should share it with...
Jan Ketil Skanke
Notes from the field – Do I really need MDT integration?
For many years, in fact, since I started my own career with Configuration Manager, the tried and tested method of building task sequences was to integrate MDT. MDT integration was seen to offer the best of both worlds...
21 Days of MEM Tips
Last March, our own Sandy Yinghua challenged David James to a friendly competition of sharing the best tips and tricks for ConfigMgr. What resulted was a month’s worth of tweets from ConfigMgr team members and the...
Donna Ryan
Deploying Autopilot with MDT on USB – A WIM Witch Use Case
I was recently pulled into a project with a client that is enrolling their estate into Autopilot. This would normally be unexceptional, but this client had a several challenges that made this process difficult. We...
Office 365 client deployment: notes from the field
Recently I took on an new task assignment to migrate all users from the Office 2016 client to Office 365 Pro Plus. I thought I could finish this task in an hour, and I was totally wrong about that! Sure it was very easy...
Sandy Zeng
WIM Witch v1.4.0 – Language Packs, Features on Demand, and Local Experience Packs
Starting with version 1.4.0, WIM Witch can now import and apply Language Packs, Features on Demand, and Local Experience Packs. This feature set has been a constant request from the original release of WIM Witch, and I...
Cloud Management Gateway deployment failed due to missing Resource Provider in Azure Subscription
Deploying a Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) with ConfigMgr requires access to an Azure Subscription. Additionally, the CMG is deployed using a resource provider named Microsoft.ClassicCompute. Newly registered Azure...
Integrate DaRT in a ConfigMgr boot image using PowerShell
Over the years it’s been relatively common to include Microsoft DaRT into your boot image used for OSD in ConfigMgr and several blog posts have explained the process with a step-by-step approach. Some time back I...