Author: martin

  • Create your own Software Deployment Repository with Azure and Intune

    As you might know, within Intune you can only install applications on devices, if they are coming as an MSI. If you want to deploy anything else, this blog might be helpful for you. Let me talk about the requirements: Azure Subscription for Storage Intune Subscription (obviously) This blog will provide the information how you…

  • Azure Active Directory – Alert if a specific user is logged on

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    If you want to get an email Alert, if a specific Account is used for Login within Azure Active Directory, you will currently be required to use Cloud App Security. The feature Cloud App Security is included within the Enterprise Mobility & Security Suite E5 (EMS E5; source).

  • Office 365 – Content Search and eDiscovery

    Today I would shed some light on the two options “Content Search” and “eDiscovery” from the Security and Compliance center of Office 365. You can reach the security and compliance center through the following URL: Office 365 – Security & Compliance Center The first questions that may raise up, what is content search and eDiscovery,…

  • SCCM – Configure a pointer record for your Cloud Management Gateway

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    Lets assume you want to set a pointer record (PTR) for your System Center Configuration Manager Cloud Management Gateway (CMG). First of all, you will need to install the “Azure PowerShell Service Management module”, and Login to your Tenant. This process is documented on the Microsoft Website: Installing the Azure PowerShell Service Management module When…

  • Intune – NDES Enrollment

    I recently changed my Intune Subscription from SCCM Hybrid to Intune Standalone. Within this change, I face an issue with the NDES, respectively the SCEP, enrollment for the certificates. After I have configured the SCEP profile within Intune, my Windows 10 Clients show th following error Message within the eventlog: A security error occurred 0x80072f8f…

  • Azure AD Connect – Configure the “Enable-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold” wisely

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    Today would shed some light on the cmdlet “Enable-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold” which comes with the Azure AD Connect. If you are using Azure AD Connect to synchronize your On-Premise Active Directory to Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Connect will never execute a batch of more than 500 objects to delete. You can check the current value by…

  • Azure AD – Change from ADFS to pass-through Authentication

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    Since pass-through Authentication is GA and the major limitations are gone, I decided to change my Azure AD authentication against my local AD from ADFS to pass-through provided with Azure AD Connect. For those who are not that familiar with the concept of pass-through authentication, on this Microsoft Article “How it works”, you will find…

  • Windows 10 – Remove Windows.old Folder

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    Long time no see, huh? Now I’m back with a new post about removing the Windows.old folder after a feature Upgrade. Recently I seen this on twitter, a commented it with: Why don’t you let the automation from Windows 10 let it do. But since then, I was in a project, where the removal of…

  • Windows 10 1703 – Remove Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps

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    DON’T Do THIS! Use AppLocker instead! Do not remove any apps from the image Hi reader, I would like to share my script to remove windows universal apps, which I have tried to make it simple as possible. First let me explain, that there seems to exist two different types of Apps which reside within…

  • ConfigMgr – My Guide for a SCCM driven Windows 10 Installation

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    In this blog I would like to give an overview of my Windows 10 Installation, since this has changed a lot to previous versions of Windows. This blog will cover the following topics: Windows 10 Image Customization Windows 10 Unattended File Windows 10 Language Pack (MUI) Integration Optional: Windows 10 with .Net feature The blog…