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Windows Phone 8.1 devices keep prompting for sign in to the Company Portal

I have been working on another mobility project the last couple of months. this project started as a hybrid SCCM/Intune project using “old” SCC 2012 R2 platform, a couple of weeks ago we migrated the platform to the latest service pack in order to get all of the new hybrid mobile features in place. The project have support for Android, iOS and Windows phones 8.1 devices. In the beginning the company portal was deployed to the Windows Phones using the Windows Phone trial certificate (not supported, but it works). That part worked as expected for many months, but using the [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2015-07-01T10:47:13+01:00juli 1st, 2015|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), General info|Kommentarer lukket

Move An Outlook Data file To A New Computer / (.pst) / Emails

Problem: How to Export your Outlook Data file (.pst) from one computer to another Short link to the blog: https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/?p=8923 First I want you to notice that I am using Outlook 2013. There are other versions of outlook and it is possible to do the exact same thing. You are able to transfer the data files from one Outlook version to another. Follow this guide if you want to use another computer and want to keep your old data such as emails, folders and more. Through these steps, you are able to get all your emails and data with you into [...]

By Alexander Gundelack Jensen|2015-06-29T10:47:09+01:00juni 29th, 2015|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info, Personal|3 Comments

Azure Automation DSC: How to register and use Azure Automation DSC

One of the new features of Azure Automation is still somewhat hidden. It needs to be enabled before you see it in the GUI This blog post gives a quick overview of what is needed to use it. Step 1: Enable the extension in your Azure Account #Add & Select Account Add-AzureAccount Switch-AzureMode -Name AzureResourceManager #Register DSC extension on account Register-AzureProvider –ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Automation Register-AzureProviderFeature -FeatureName dsc -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Automation The command registers the azure automation dsv extension on your account. This shows the DSC Nodes tile in your automation account: Step 2: Select subscription and default values Before [...]

By Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen|2015-06-22T15:48:19+01:00juni 22nd, 2015|Powershell, Scripting & Development|2 Comments

PowerShell: LEAP Motion PowerShell Lottery Script @ Danish PowerShell User Group

In our geek club aka The Danish PowerShell user group, we always do a lottery in the end, for books or similar. To draw the correct winner we have been using a script that I have developed. I have for a long time, promised to release the script so that other user groups or other interested people can use it for fun! It has amazing ascii graphics and colors!!! It will take you straight back to your C64 loading screen! The script is a lottery script that takes a file from www.eventbrite.com containing all attendees. The script need a LEAP [...]

By Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen|2015-06-22T14:59:47+01:00juni 22nd, 2015|Powershell, Scripting & Development|Kommentarer lukket

Specify a Runas Account for a monitor

If you need to individualize a monitor to run with a specific Account in SCOM, you could do it like this Powershell sample. Before importing the Managementpack please download and install the SamplePowershellMonitorWizardMP.zip, this is a really good one which easily take care of implementing Powershell script directly in the console. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Sample-Management-Pack-17b76379 After this import feel free to download my demo MP from below, but first a short explanation: Goal: Run a powershell script monitor with a specific account. Solution: Create the Runas account In SCOM: In your SCOM Console and below Administration and Accounts create your Windows Accounts with [...]

By Kåre Rude Andersen|2015-06-19T00:23:23+01:00juni 19th, 2015|Operations Manager (SCOM), Powershell|1 Kommentar

Bluestripe acquired by Microsoft

It was with great excitement that I read that Microsoft has acquired Bluestripe . I have been working with their product Factfinder for a while now and is impressed with it’s features. The acquisition means even better integration and features for a solution that is already great and right now provide immense value to any SCOM and SCSM solution, which is why we always recommend our customers to consider Factfinder as part of their System Center implementation. Without Bluestripe’s product Factfinder, mapping services and creating distributed applications in SCOM, is typically a manual task and requires you to collect information [...]

By Lars Villaume Jørgensen|2015-06-11T10:18:08+01:00juni 11th, 2015|Operations Manager (SCOM)|1 Kommentar

Windows Azure Pack / SMA: How to fix when some VM Clouds Automation Triggers does not work

In WAP VM Clouds provider, we are able to set trigger on different actions. Yesterday, in a new test environment, I had a problem that some of them would not trigger. When I tested Subscription trigger, it worked fine, but none of the others worked. Luckily I asked my MVP network for help, and fellow CDM MVP Stan showed me the path to the fix! (Check his blog here: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/author/slavizh/) He said some actions are handled directly by WAP, and some are handled by SPF. The SMA Web service has to use a valid certificate that is [...]

By Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen|2017-08-22T09:23:19+01:00maj 22nd, 2015|Automation, Windows Azure Pack (WAP)|1 Kommentar

Working with managed applications within Configuration Manager 2012 R2 SP1

First, let’s define a managed application. In essence it’s a special policy that enable you to control settings in the application or browser like data encryption, can the user save the document as a new file etc. To successfully deploy a managed application you need to mix the application deployment with an application management policy. Configuration Manager will automatically discover if the application can be managed and will show an additional page in the wizard when you create the deployment. It’s worth noting that not all applications can be managed. They have to have the Intune App SDK built-in or [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2015-05-21T22:00:17+01:00maj 21st, 2015|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), General info, Security|2 Comments

Windows Mobile Phone 8.1 support gone after upgrading to Configuration Manager 2012 R2 SP1

One of the many changes in the newly released SP1 is support for Windows Phone 8.1 After the upgrade only there will only be support for Windows Phone 8.0. Navigate to the Administration workspace, select Cloud Services, right click your Intune connector, Configure Platforms, Windows Phone. Notice that Windows Phone 8.1 is not enabled. In our environment we only support Windows Phone 8.1 and we do not deploy any custom signed Windows Phone LOB applications. Enable Windows Phone 8.1 support and click OK. Wait until the next synchronization and you will have Windows Phone 8.1 support back. Another “setting” [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2015-05-21T17:43:13+01:00maj 21st, 2015|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS)|Kommentarer lukket

Azure Automation: Using Azure Scheduler to trigger a runbook via Runbook Webhooks

One of the great new features of Azure Automation is the Web hooks, which can be added to runbooks. A web hook is a way for an external system to trigger the runbook with specific input values. You can read more about how to trigger web hooks here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/automation-webhooks/ This article describes how easy it is to use the Azure Scheduler to actually trigger the runbook. There is already a scheduler built in, but there can be reasons that one would use Azure Scheduler instead Azure Automation scheduler is not very advanced so far, it can only trigger [...]

By Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen|2015-05-20T14:52:52+01:00maj 20th, 2015|Automation, Azure|Kommentarer lukket

Upgrade to System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1

Below is the guide that I normally use for a service pack upgrade in a single primary site environment. I will not go into the story about what files you should download as that is already explained by Jason Sandys here - http://blog.configmgrftw.com/service-pack-madness/ Planning and Testing Back up the SQL Server database and restore a copy of the database on an instance that is not hosting the production database. Perform a test upgrade of the database to SP1. The test upgrade must be performed on the database copy. Download the ConfigMgr SP1 prerequisite files. Disable management point replicas if they [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2015-05-19T21:14:20+01:00maj 19th, 2015|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|5 Comments

OMS – Bringing SCOM to the next level

Atlanta, Advisor, Operarational Insights, OpsInsights, OMS or Microsoft Operations Management Suite is the story of a product which have undergoing a stuble path to be the product as it is today. During Ignite at Chicago Microsoft released the newest preview of OMS which in the future will be the primarely interface to monitoring your infrastructure – no matter if your are doing on-prem or Azure monitoring of your IT Services. OMG OMS OMS is a Cloud Service that are able to recieve data from your individual servers or your System Center Operations Manager installation, where the SCOM MS server are [...]

By Kåre Rude Andersen|2017-08-22T10:11:21+01:00maj 19th, 2015|Operations Manager (SCOM)|Kommentarer lukket

Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 ADFS New PowerShell cmdlets

Quick comparison shows that we have 37 new PowerShell cmdlets :) cmdlet name Add-AdfsLocalClaimsProviderTrust Add-AdfsScopeDescription Add-AdfsTrustedFederationPartner Disable-AdfsCertificateAuthority Disable-AdfsLocalClaimsProviderTrust Enable-AdfsLocalClaimsProviderTrust Get-AdfsAccessControlPolicy Get-AdfsApplicationPermission Get-AdfsAzureMfaConfigured Get-AdfsCertificateAuthority Get-AdfsLocalClaimsProviderTrust Get-AdfsRelyingPartyWebTheme Get-AdfsScopeDescription Get-AdfsTrustedFederationPartner Grant-AdfsApplicationPermission Invoke-AdfsFarmBehaviorLevelRaise New-AdfsAccessControlPolicy New-AdfsAzureMfaTenantCertificate New-AdfsLdapAttributeToClaimMapping New-AdfsLdapServerConnection Remove-AdfsAccessControlPolicy Remove-AdfsLocalClaimsProviderTrust Remove-AdfsRelyingPartyWebTheme Remove-AdfsScopeDescription Remove-AdfsTrustedFederationPartner Restore-AdfsFarmBehaviorLevel Revoke-AdfsApplicationPermission Set-AdfsAccessControlPolicy Set-AdfsApplicationPermission Set-AdfsAzureMfaTenant Set-AdfsCertificateAuthority Set-AdfsLocalClaimsProviderTrust Set-AdfsRelyingPartyWebTheme Set-AdfsScopeDescription Set-AdfsTrustedFederationPartner Test-AdfsFarmBehaviorLevelRaise Test-AdfsFarmBehaviorLevelRestore Best

By Kaido Järvemets|2017-08-22T10:22:02+01:00maj 13th, 2015|Powershell, Windows Server|Kommentarer lukket

Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 ADFS idpinitiatedsignon error

I just installed and configured a new ADFS server. After the configuration I wanted to test out ADFS login using this address - https://sts.corp.viamonstra.com/adfs/ls/idpinitiatedsignon but it failed with this error: The resources you are trying to access is not available. Event log showed this error message Quick configuration check with Get-ADFSProperties cmdlet and I discovered that by default it is not enabled. Use the Set-AdfsProperties -EnableIdPInitiatedSignonPage $True command to enable the login. Best

By Kaido Järvemets|2017-08-22T10:19:17+01:00maj 13th, 2015|Windows Server|3 Comments

ADFS Device Registration Service on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2

If you want to configure ADFS Device Registration on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2, then this requires that you have also Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 Domain Controller Best

By Kaido Järvemets|2017-08-22T10:18:30+01:00maj 13th, 2015|Windows Server|Kommentarer lukket

Impacted Business Services – Free console task for SCSM

UPDATE: 24-11-2015: Version 2.0: Added support for localization. Open the new provided Coretech.ImpactedBusinessService.Configuration.xml Management Pack and edit/add language pack sections (instructions inside) Example of German translation (thanks to Florian Schwendtner): Added ability to choose own columns related to the System.Service class (instructions inside configuration management pack) The Listview is now a Service Manager listview Added new transparent task icon Often you want to quickly determine which Business Service(s) is affected/impacted from a Change Request when making a certain change to a Configuration Item, e.g. a database, computer, network component etc. There is no quick way to achieve this today [...]

By Morten Meisler|2015-05-12T12:46:53+01:00maj 12th, 2015|Service Manager (SCSM)|3 Comments

Links and tools from our Ignite Instructor lab – Upgrading to Windows 10 using ConfigMgr 2012 R2

Thanks all for attending the Instructor led lab @Ignite – All three Vikings had a great time on stage – thanks for turning the ILL into a very interactive breakout session :-) Download the labfiles, scripts and instructions from the lab - http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/10/29/how-to-upgrade-to-win-10-using-the-task-sequence-in-sc-2012-r2-configmgr.aspx Download ConfigMgr Technical preview - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-system-center-configuration-manager-and-endpoint-protection-technical-preview?i=1 Driver Import script - https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/kea/automate-importing-and-creating-drivers-packages-in-sccm-2012-r2/

By Kent Agerlund|2015-05-06T17:59:17+01:00maj 6th, 2015|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Events, General info, OS Deployment|Kommentarer lukket

Azure Automation: New features including graphical designer and Hybrid Workers goes live!

Today at Ignite, Microsoft announced the next version of the portal for Azure Automation. This portal is part of the new Azure Portal, and you can try it out right away!! It has some great features in the interface and It enables proper Hybrid Cloud Automation! Execute Azure Automation runbook on-premise and trigger them from on-prem solutions! Can I get a Woohoo!? In this article, I will explain each feature in details New Graphical Runbook Designer interface (similar to the classic Orchestrator runbook designer) Hybrid Worker Role!! Web Hooks New portal design with better overview over runbooks, Assets etc. [...]

By Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen|2015-05-04T17:30:01+01:00maj 4th, 2015|Automation, Azure|Kommentarer lukket

Notes and links from the #Ignite Pre-Day, Enterprise Management

Slides and links Here is the link to the slides: http://deploymentresearch.com/DRFiles/MSIgnite2015preday.zip Video to deploying Windows 10 IoT to Raspberry Pi 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5SfPTykM6A Hydration Kit for System Center 2012 R2 http://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/407/The-Hydration-Kit-for-System-Center-2012-R2-is-available-for-download The script that exported task sequences was gathered from the following post http://trevorsullivan.net/2010/05/13/exporting-configmgr-task-sequences (by Trevor Sullivan) The script that imported task sequences was gathered from the following post http://www.david-obrien.net/2012/09/29/how-to-backup-restore-your-tasksequenceconfiguration-manager-2012-and-powershell (by David O’Brien) TechNet Docs - Create a Windows 8.1 Reference Image http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn744290.aspx TechNet Docs - Deploy a Windows 8.1 Image Using MDT 2013 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn744279.aspx TechNet Virtual Labs - Creating a Windows 8.1 reference image http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9845755 Building reference images like a [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2015-05-04T11:54:49+01:00maj 4th, 2015|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Events|1 Kommentar

Create Windows 10 Enterprise ISO from Professional media

Microsoft has released build 10041 of Windows 10 Technical preview, but again there is only an ISO for the Professional edition.The workaroundwell lucky for us, there is a way around this. It is possible to utilize DISM to change editions of Windows, so by running a few commands we can upgrade the install.wim from Pro to Enterprise.To do this you need a computer with Windows 10 installed, as we need the latest version of DISM. Simply install Windows 10 Pro using the latest release on a physical or virtual computer.Mount the Windows 10 Pro ISO, and copy the content to [...]

By Henrik Rading|2015-04-21T10:14:14+01:00april 21st, 2015|General info, Windows Client|2 Comments

Azure RMS PowerShell cmdlets

Here are the Azure RMS PowerShell cmdlets excel sheet. There are totally 44 cmdlets in AADRM Module. You can download the Azure Rights Management Administration Tool from here You can download this excel sheet from here [download id="249"]

By Kaido Järvemets|2017-08-22T10:17:14+01:00april 9th, 2015|Azure, Powershell|Kommentarer lukket

Wsyncmgr.log: The request failed with HTTP status 503

Kent have blogged about WSUS maintenance before – its important so that we don’t hit problems like the one I’m about to share with you, so make sure you do something about it – Link. “The request failed with HTTP status 503: Status Unavailable” in this case the source is a stored procedure running (Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.ApiRemoting.ExecuteSPGetUpdatesThatSupersedeUpdate). The wsyncmgr.log snippet above is an example of the WSUS sync failing because the IIS Application Pool had stopped. The reason for it stopping is that the amount of private memory allowed to the application pool had hit the roof, and when that happens the [...]

By Henrik Hoe|2015-03-31T07:57:21+01:00marts 31st, 2015|Configuration Manager (SCCM)|Kommentarer lukket

Metadata Only Updates in SCCM 2012 R2 Console

Been a while since i blogged – but this i felt needed to come up. If you work with Software Updates in SCCM then you are used to see Normal, Expired & Superseeded Updates from Microsoft… Not Metadata Only Updates! (Unless you work with SCUP or other 3rd party patching) - https://technet.microsoft.com/da-dk/library/hh848254.aspx But i just had a case where the WSUS had totally broken down, the SUSDB was gone and the SUP was gone. So the only option left was to start over with building a new WSUS and setting a new SUP to connect to this new WSUS. Note: [...]

By Henrik Hoe|2015-03-27T11:45:41+01:00marts 27th, 2015|Configuration Manager (SCCM), SQL|3 Comments

Help shape the future of Microsoft Automation/Orchestrator!

The Microsoft engineering team that creates Azure Automation, Service Management Automation, and System Center Orchestrator is asking for us customers to help them shape the future of Automation. Today we run most automation on premise, but in the future this might be a cloud service like Office 365. It all depends on the inputs from us! You can give your input by filling this survey with questions about moving to a cloud service: https://microsoft.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b3pBfQD39MLGiHP

By Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen|2017-08-22T09:25:50+01:00marts 24th, 2015|Automation|Kommentarer lukket

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