March 27, 2024 Update: Add {0000111F-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB} for certain Polycom Bluetooth devices. After figuring out how to Disable Bluetooth File Transfer with ConfigMgr, I figured it would be worth while to do this for all of the Intune admins out there. This is easy since all the hard work was already done (figuring out what services…
March 27, 2024 Update: Add {0000111F-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB} for certain Polycom Bluetooth devices. I recently got a request to see if it was possible to disable Bluetooth file transfer without disabling Bluetooth (because that would be bad) using Configuration Manager. Challenge accepted! First things first, read up on the Bluetooth Policy CSP to see if it is…
The Microsoft Intune Team has been busy at work releasing new features. One of those features that was released in the Service release 2301 was the ability to create filters based on the device’s Azure AD Join Type (aka deviceTrustType). This is really handy when there is the need to target devices based on this…
ConfigMgr / MEMCM / OSD / PowerShell / Windows 10
August 25, 2022 Windows KB5012170 is turning out to be one of those patches that is causing a ton of headaches. The biggest one is for those user’s that got the lovely BitLocker Recovery screen but had no idea what their BitLocker recovery key is or where to find it. This happened to my father-in-law’s…
ConfigMgr / MEMCM / PowerShell / Windows 10
If you are familiar with the work that Gary Blok and I have done on BIOS and Drivers, you will already know that we like to use extra fields on the Package properties to store meta date that we use for reporting and automation. Four of the fields that we like to use are on…
If you have worked with Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager (MEMCM, CM for short and previously known as SCCM) for more than a day, you are probably aware of its immense power that it can yield on any and all of the clients it manages. It has an extremely mature Role Based Administration model that…
The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (aka DaRT) is a powerful toolset that is available to Software Assurance customers. Johan Arwidmark recently wrote a post called Back to Basics – Reset the Windows 10 Admin Password using DaRT that covers the steps for creating the recovery media. The DaRT Recovery Image Wizard will generate a…
If you have been involved with any kind of Windows deployments or Windows Update deployments in the last five or so years, you probably heard of the concept of deployment rings. Microsoft has been pushing this concept ever since they have moved to an ‘as a Service’ model for Windows 10 and other Microsoft products…
Boundaries are used in Boundary Groups in Configuration Manager, which in turn are used for site assignment and site system/content location. There are multiple ways to configure Boundaries, this can be done with IP Subnets, AD Sites, IPv6 prefix, IP range and lastly VPN. I work in a 419K seat global environment, which means we…
January 24, 2021 Now that 2020 is done and over (thankfully), those of you that have been following along on My Tesla Journey are probably wondering how my first full year ROI turned out for my solar decision. At the end of My Tesla Journey Part 2, I listed out the following variables that ultimately…
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May 24, 2020 My Tesla journey started off back in March of 2019. Having been a car guy growing up, I started determining how long I was going to keep a car (mainly my daily drivers) based on number of years and/or number of miles. Before getting married and having kids, these numbers were around…
4/26/2020 [Download exported Configuration Baseline and Configuration Items here. This includes the CIs from Part 2 and Part 3.] In Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I covered the settings that are required to enable Wake-On-LAN that are not hardware manufacturer specific. In Part 2 I cover the BIOS (UEFI) specific settings for current…
4/12/2020 [Download exported Configuration Baseline and Configuration Items here. This includes the CIs from Part 2 and Part 3.] In Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I covered the settings that are required to enable Wake-On-LAN that are not hardware manufacturer specific. In Part 2, I am going to go over the BIOS…
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