Category: EMM

  • Office 365 – Data Location

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    This blog post covers some information about the data location of your Office 365 tenant. First I show you where you can get the information, where your Office 365 data is currently stored. Open https://admin.microsoft.com and navigate to “Settings”:

  • Intune – Deploy required user settings to Windows 10 with powershell

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    In this blog I would like to describe, how I managed to set required user settings to Windows 10. Since I still do have an On-Premises environment, in which also File Servers reside and a DFS Namespace is still up and running, I wanted to make sure to get the advantages of using the local…

  • Intune Autopilot – Prepopulate the Startmenu

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    It might be not that popular with Windows 10, but every company wants a well curated startmenu, rather than the default delivered from Microsoft: We have multiple Options to configure the startmenu, I’m sure I don’t know them all. But when it comes to Windows 10 and Intune autopilot, we do not really have an…

  • I have configured “Network Security: Restrict NTLM: NTLM authentication in this domain” months ago, here is why it catched me

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    Today I would like to share my experience with troubleshooting a overcommitted security admin with less knowledge than it would be required (In fact, I’m talking about me here). Some month ago, I read about NTLM (v2 as well), and I decided to restrict NTLM in my LAB, to check what is working afterwards, and…

  • 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…

  • ADFS – Install Web Application Proxy fails with 401: Unauthorized

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    Hi, today I faced the issue, that when I tried to install my Web Application Proxy for ADFS, it permanently fails with the Event ID 422: With Text: ‎Unable to retrieve proxy configuration data from the Federation Service. Additional Data Trust Certificate Thumbprint: 3CD8F7C4697ED510546F74C25B4FD4F8C183CE34 Status Code: Unauthorized Exception details: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an…

  • Azure AD Connect 1.1.105.0 – Missing Scheduled Task

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    Hi, today I have upgraded my Azure AD Connect to the newest Version available (Download here). Everything seemed to be fine, except that I was missing the Scheduled Task:

  • ConfigrMgr 1511 – Service connection point issues

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    Hi reader, I was running ConfigMgr 1511 from an upgraded System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 SP1 Infrastructure with configured Intune Subscription without a problem for more than a month. But due to my Azure Tenant Name selection more than two years ago, I wanted to change the Tenant name from uncoolname.onmicrosoft.com to hosebei.onmicrosoft.com, because…

  • Implement Microsoft Windows Store for Business and Windows 10 Mobile

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    Today I would like to show you how the newly available Microsoft Windows Store for Business works, and how you implement it for your Windows 10 Mobile users. The most interesting part for Businesses with the new Store is the fact, that end users do not longer need a Microsoft Account (which is the former…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 – Windows 10 Mobile Management

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    Hey Reader, yesterday I received my brand new Microsoft Lumia 950, and here is my unboxing video: (hahaha…. ;)) No, not really, but, here are my experiences when it comes to manage a Windows 10 Mobile Device with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 SP1, and I have also installed the latest cumulative Update (at…