Author: martin

  • Quickpost: ADFS 3.0 – Customize Login Page

    This is a quick one: If you want to customize your sign in site for ADFS, to show your excellent web designer skills, it is that easy and well described on this TechNet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn280950.aspx

  • Windows Azure Directory – Single Sign-On at its best

    Hey there, here’s Martin again. Inspired from the SCU Show (http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com/) in Houston, I liked to write a blogpost about the Single Sign-On Feature of Windows Azure Directory. Assuming that you already using Directory Synchronization and ADFS or Password sync, this Blog goes further, by showing, how to use SSO for Facebook or Twitter.

  • Windows Azure Directory – Remove no longer synced objects

    In one of my last blog-post I described how to configure the initial synchronization of an Active Directory Service with Windows Azure Directory (http://blog.hosebei.ch/2014/01/23/azure-directory-sync-initial-configuration/). But what if you have already synced your Domain, and you made your configuration afterwards? Yes, unfortunately, the Accounts in the Azure Directory will not be deleted. This is caused of…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – BYOD with Windows To Go and Bitlocker in Enterprise

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    Hi there, here’s Martin again. My last Blog Post was about to create a Windows 8.1 To Go deployment with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2, and which configurations are required or are nice to set. In this Blog post, I tell you about how I expand the Task Sequence with enabling Bitlocker for the…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – Speed up and slow down reboot in one step!

    What do I want to say with this sentence, because for the first sight, it makes not a lot sense, but if we looking deeper… With System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 the Task Sequences got a new step called “Set Dynamic Variables”. With this, you can set variables a lot easier than before, and…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – Remove Client from Collection after OSD 1.1

    Hey, here is Martin again. One of the most viewed article on this blog is about this Topic. I will give a small update for the new System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 release. Thus this release now supports to run most of the cmdlets for SCCM also in x64 mode (exceptions see: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn236347.aspx).

  • Azure Directory Sync Initial Configuration

    When you are implementing Windows Intune with SCCM, you always come to the Point, where you got to install Azure Directory Synchronization, otherwise you will need to create your user account manually, and the users have also to manage two Passwords for their user account, one for on-premise and one for the cloud. Two big…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – Windows 8.1 To Go deployment

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    Today I would like to tell about my struggles when I tried to implement Windows 8.1 Togo with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2. First, I would highly recommend to use this TechNet article as starting Point: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj651035.aspx Let me Point out two hints to this “How to”: 1. Do not forget to set the…

  • SCCM 2012 – Task Sequence Fails – It’s the Updates, dude!

    Hi, here’s Martin again. It’s the Updates, dude! Today a fine TS for installing a Windows Server 2012 isn’t running through anymore. After some investigations, it was caused of a Patch/Update, that needs to reboot the System twice. This double reboot can’t be recognized from the SCCM Task Sequence, and after the second boot, the…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – Delete Client Operations Status

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    I often hear from customers, that they need a solution to delete expired Client Operations, the console Looks like this, but with more than hundreds of Operations: