You want to use the closest Domain Controller (DC) in you powershell script, then you can simply use this one-liner:
Get-ADDomainController -Discover -NextClosestSite
The parameter -NextClosestSite does deliver you the closest Domain Controller, either in your Site, or in the best Site based on the Site link costs, based on the Microsoft Article about the cmdlet:
Source: Get-ADDomainController
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 this is done, you may want to change the subscription, in my case it was necessary. To do so, simply show all of your subscriptions with “Get-AzureSubscription” and select the appropriate subscription with “Select-AzureSubscirtion” afterwards:
When you have selected the correct subscription, you can list the Azure Services with “Get-AzureService”.
With the following command, you can set the Pointer record for your CMG:
Set-AzureService -ServiceName "YOURSERVICENAME" -ReverseDnsFqdn "HOSEBECMG01.hosebei.ch."
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 (WinHttp: 12175 ERROR_WINHTTP_SECURE_FAILURE)
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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:
The blog is based on Windows 10 1703:
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According to a recent Post from mine (Part 1), here are my issues with the System Center Configuration Manager addition. As you can see on the following print screen, ConfigMgr detects the Language of the keyboard:
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Today I would like to show you, how you can easily create and deploy an Office 365 Application within Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Console.
Within the ConfigMgr Console navigate to the “Office 365 Client Management” Dashboard, and click on “Office 365 Installer”:
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Today I wanted to sequence a new package with the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Sequencer Tool, but I had no success. I always got the following error when the installation should start:
“Cannot start service AppVMon on computer ‘.’.”
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Let me say: This is an unsupported scenario
Today I decided to do an in place upgrade of my LAB Installation, which means to switch from Microsoft Server 2012 R2 to Server 2016 as operating System. Before I started that upgrade, I made sure to have a proper backup of the database and the cd.latest Folder, because this is a single box installation.
Then I mounted the Server 2016 ISO and started with the installation. The installation itself took quite a while, but it ran through without an error. When I saw that the virtual machine was ready to logon, I actually tried to use RDP, without success. I then logged on through the Hyper-V Console and checked the System Center Configuration Manager Console, and for my surprise, the console started up and had also no error.
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Today I would like to show you, how you can implement an Upgrade of a Windows 10 Installation through the Servicing Option.
I always think of two things, when I have to decide to use an Upgrade Task Sequence or the Servicing Model, and those are:
But for this blog post, I would like to show my setup for the servicing model.
First of all, I have already written a post about the Update process in a slightly overview manner, you will find this post here: My old post
The first step would be to determine which packages you would like to implement for the upgrade. Based on the fact, that I use English as base language, I will add the Feature on Demand (FoD) packages, and I will also add the feature package NetFx3. My Setup does also contain the German Langauge, which requires me to add the corresponding Language Pack and FoD Packages. The following picture shows the folder of my Packages which I want to include within the Windows 10 Installation:
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Today I would like to talk about the upcoming update cycles you have to do, when you are using Windows 10 Current Branch or Current Branch for Business. This means, if you have started to install Windows 10 1507 (which represents the first Windows 10 Release, some may call it also RTM) in spring of last year, you will be soon required to upgrade to a newer version of Windows 10. Also if you are using Windows 10 1511, with the upcoming creators update, the 1511 version of Windows 10 will be soon unsupported, following the official guidelines.
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