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 option as what I have considered. This blog tries to catch the available options we currently have with Intune and Autopilot.
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ConfigMgr – My Guide for a SCCM driven Windows 10 Installation
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 is based on Windows 10 1703:
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ConfigMgr – NDES Certificate Deployment fails due to Network Device Enrollment Service failure
I was struggling a little bit within my LAB trying to get the Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES) up and running again for the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP), which is I believe not that simple, but anyway. I was really unsure what I did have changed (because I changed a lot in the last month within my LAB), that would have stopped the functionality of the Certificates to my devices, but I had a start point, the event log of the NDES Server told me the following:
The Network Device Enrollment Service cannot retrieve one of its required certificates (0x80070057). The parameter is incorrect.
The Network Device Enrollment Service cannot be started (0x80070057). The parameter is incorrect.
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ConfigrMgr – The complete Backup (currently)
Motivated from my attend at IT/Dev Connection in Las Vegas, I wanted to create my complete Backup from ConfigMgr so far.
Because I was required to copy a lot of work from other people together, I decided to create a blog with each detailed step to achieve a fine Backup at the end, and I will start from the beginning, until we have reached our goal:
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ConfigMgr – In-Place Upgrade of SQL from 2012 to 2016
Hi,
today I did an In-Place Upgrade of my SQL Installation from SQL 2012 to the 2016 Release which is also supported by System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (1606).
Everything went fine except the Report Service, I received the following errors within the upgrade:
Action required:
The upgrade process for SQL Server failed. Use the following information to resolve the error, and then repair your installation by using this command line: setup /action=repair /instancename=MSSQLSERVER
Feature failure reason:
An error occurred during the setup process of the feature.
Error details:
§ Error installing SQL Server Reporting Services
A HTTPS sertificate is not configured on the Web site.
Error code: 0x80131500
Visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkId=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=13.0.1601.5&EvtType=0x589E8944%400x8285294C&EvtType=0x589E8944%400x8285294C to get help on troubleshooting.
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Setup
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The following error has occurred:
The Report Server WMI provider cannot create the virtual directory. This error occurs when you call SetVirtualDirectory and the UrlString is already reserved. To continue, clear all URL reservations by calling RemoveURL and then try again.
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=13.0.1601.5&EvtType=0x589E8944%25400x9A8ECB73
And within ConfigMgr, the srsrp.log showed up with the following errors:
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SCCM 2012 R2 – Console on Windows 8.1 can’t connect to SMS Provider
Quickpost:
Today I installed the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 Console on another Windows 8.1 machine. I already deployed my package on my Workstation, so I didn’t expect to get any issues. But after the Installation, I wasn’t able to connect to my SCCM hierarchy, the well-known error “Configuration Manager cannot connect to the site (….”:
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SCCM 2012 – Extend Value List in Query
Did you ever had the Problem, that when you created a query, let’s say you wanted to know, if the Software inventory has found a executable named zune.exe. So you go to your System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Console and create a new query by navigate to “MonitoringQueriesCreate Query”: Continue reading
SCCM 2012 – Include CU in OSD
Please refer to our new Blog Post about including Cumulative Updates:
https://blog.hosebei.ch/2014/03/14/sccm-2012-r2-include-client-hotfix-or-cumulative-update-while-on-osd/
Hey, here’s Martin again.
This is an often discussed Topic, but now, I found a nice solution to get rid of the Problems when you want to include a cumulative update to your Task Sequence. Also since we got a 32-bit and 64-bit Client for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, the issues are getting bigger. Continue reading
SCCM 2012 SP1 – Cumulative Update 3 released
Last friday, Microsoft released CU3 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1. Most important Point for me with this CU is the Support of the following Features for Windows 8.1:
•Software distribution
•Software update management
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SCCM 2012 SP1 – Cumulative Update 2 released
Microsoft has released the second cumulative update for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1.
The Installation process from the CU2 was changed a Little bit, and more Linux distributions are now supported by SCCM:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2013/06/21/now-available-cumulative-update-2-for-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-service-pack-1.aspx
See the blog post from Ronni Pedersen about installing CU2:
http://www.ronnipedersen.com/2013/06/installing-sccm-2012-sp1-cu2-quick-start-guide/
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