Author: martin

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – In place Upgrade of Site Server OS

    I’m not a big fan of Installing things over and over again, specially not for my LAB with Intune connected and other systems. So there wasn’t a Problem, to Upgrade my System Center Configuration 2012 Manager SP1 Site to R2 Version. But the underlying Server was still a Windows Server 2012 RTM, and not an R2.

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – Wipe/Retire a Mobile Device in less than a minute

    One annoying Point when you are using Windows Intune for Mobile Device Management (MDM) in combination with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is, that it can take a whole day (24 hours) to remotely wipe a Mobile Device, depending on the device. But luckily for us, this has now changed!

  • SCCM 2012 – Reporting Service Role on SQL Cluster?

    Hey, here’s Martin again, it’s been quite while since my last blog post. This one is just to help someone, which is looking for this Information, as I was and nowhere could find. Imagine that you have a customer who has decided to run the SCCM Database on a SQL Cluster. This is a good…

  • SCCM 2012 – Query to determine Outlook Version

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    This is a short one: If you would like to know, if there exists machine, with a specific missing Service pack for Office, just use this query:

  • SCCM 2012 R2 MDM – Deploy an Apple ipa file to an iOS Device – The complete Guide

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    Hey, here’s Martin again. Today I would like to write down what is needed to deploy an Application to a iOS Device. First, get on the Hard Facts: -SCCM 2012 R2 with Intune Subscription and activated Apple Mobile Device Management (http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/9586-how-can-i-manage-modern-devices-using-system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager-part-2/ ) -An .ipa file build as Enterprise or Ad-Hoc -The iPhone Configuration Utility to…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – Include Client Hotfix or Cumulative Update while on OSD

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    Refer to this Blog post, I decided to create a new one about including Hotfixes in OSD. Specially the new Release of SCCM 2012 R2 brings an annoying issue with extremly slow Downloads while on OSD (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2910552 ; this Hotfix superseding the KB2905002 which was first used in this blog). There are two nice ways,…

  • SCCM 2012 – Get from Content ID to the Name of an Application with Powershell

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    Hey there, here’s Martin again. Today I needed to get the Name of an application based on a Content Id from the ContentTransferManager.log: CTM job {6B767521-D8A8-410B-A572-AF4F6AFD4457} (corresponding DTS job {1EFC1FD9-C3B1-4B25-B879-18EC8F5CD152}) started download from ‘http://$FQDN_DP/SMS_DP_SMSPKG$/Content_b6256e4e-0278-4264-8e7c-b8fea60684d5.1’ for full content download.

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – Windows Phone 8.1 Compliance Rules

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    Today I looked for the new security settings for iOS 7, which are available through the new Windows Intune Extension “iOS 7 Security Settings”, so a searched for Screen, to see, what Options are available: But because I don’t know what was available before, and I don’t want to compare the compliance Settings before and…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – OSD Error 0x87d00267

    Hi, here’s Martin again. Well, as written in a recent Blog Post (http://blog.hosebei.ch/2013/11/21/sccm-2012-install-windows-7-on-ssd-fails-with-error-0x87d00267/), I was thinking of, that the Problem should be resolved, but we had still the same issues. Cause of we had nailed down the Problem to the Network, someone came up with the idea to set the Network Speed of the NIC…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 / BYOD – Deploy Exchange Active Sync Profile with Windows Intune

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    It was announced, and I was strongly waiting for it: The availability to deploy EAS profiles to Mobile Devices like iOS and Windows Phone 8 with Intune and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2. Microsoft brought us this Feature last week like a wave, you will be noticed that your Intune Instance is updated, if…