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…
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…
December 8, 2019 Moving large amounts of content across a diverse network environment happens to be one of my specialties that I have focused a better part of my career on over the last 12+ years. Basically it boils down to how to get the least amount of data from point A to point Z,…
July 4, 2019 In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment. There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote…
July 4, 2019 Lately, I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business (about 40 PCs across 3 locations). The goal was to get them switched over from an old Windows 2008 R2 domain to a domain-less Azure AD environment running on Windows 10 and utilizing Microsoft 365 Business. Every now and…
Over the years I have gotten in the habit of dropping CMTrace.exe into the System32 directory so that it is in the path and easy to launch. I had also been adding it to WinPE since before it was called CMTrace. In Configuration Manager Current Branch 1802, the ConfigMgr Team granted one of my UserVoice…
Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2 In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the…
This page is intended to be a table of contents for blogs that myself, my colleagues, or members of the IT community have published that we use in our Windows as a Service in the Enterprise process. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview…
Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1 Windows 10 brings several new challenges to the Enterprise – one of the major challenges is deploying Windows 10 and then…
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