Troubleshooting unexpected reboots when using Windows Autopilot can be challenging for sure. This post is a quick tip around how the Event ID 2800 in the DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider should be used. During our session on troubleshooting the modern managed device at MMS in Minneapolis we got this question a couple of times, this post will explain...| CCMEXEC.COM - Enterprise Mobility
TL;DR: SCCM maintenance tasks for WSUS no longer work if you are using WSUS with the Windows Internal Database (WID). When looking at the SCCM wsyncmgr.log, I noticed some SQL exceptions that […]| Out of Office Hours
Microsoft enabled automatic updates for PowerShell with the release of PowerShell 7.2; that continues now with PowerShell 7.4. If you’re devices are updated from Windows Update directly and you’ve enabled updates when […]| Out of Office Hours
Administrator Protection in Windows 11 was announced at Ignite a couple of weeks ago which adds a well needed more secure option than UAC to protect our accounts with Local Administrator permissions. Administrator Protection reminds a bit on how Microsoft Endpoint Privilege Management works with a separate virtual account. Instead of the traditional UAC elevation...| CCMEXEC.COM - Enterprise Mobility
Since 1902 SCCM it is possible to set Distribution Point in Maintenance Mode https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/servers/deploy/configure/install-and-configure-distribution-points#bkmk_maint| Franck RICHARD's Blog
For direct solution go to the end of this article| Franck RICHARD's Blog
PART 2 : MODIFY/ UPDATE "Distribution Point Configuration Status" entries| Franck RICHARD's Blog
Below example of Distribution Point messages in \Monitoring\Overview\Distribution Status\Distribution Point Configuration Status| Franck RICHARD's Blog
If you are doing user-driven Windows Autopilot provisioning in combination with a ConfigMgr task sequence initiated via “Co-management settings” in Intune, you know that the task sequen…| Out of Office Hours
When you update to 1810 below Detailed status for Configuration Manager 1810 below:| Franck RICHARD's Blog
One on my PullDP not working since some days. Some content failed to update package| Franck RICHARD's Blog
As you can see 'Client certificate' value is set to 'None'. I verified all port connection to MP and delete previous certificate 19c5cf9* in C:\ProgramDate\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys but always same problem| Franck RICHARD's Blog
One more problem, 1 PullDP does not seems to work correctly| Franck RICHARD's Blog
[EDIT 2019-01-27 begin]| Franck RICHARD's Blog
Information about \Monitoring\Overview\Distribution Status\Distribution Point Group Status| Franck RICHARD's Blog
Today a client ask me why his SCCM client not working and has "client certificate" to none and not self-signed| Franck RICHARD's Blog
Sometimes, you need to know what is Package Type (Package ? Application ? Driver ?) in "\Monitoring\Overview\Distribution Status\Content Status"| Franck RICHARD's Blog
Information about \Monitoring\Overview\Distribution Status\Distribution Point Configuration Status| Franck RICHARD's Blog
I have a MSI installation problem with a Pull Distribution Point. When I read pulldp_install.log on "LOCAL_LETTER:\SMS_DP$\sms\logs" I can find an error 1602.| Franck RICHARD's Blog
I already have these 0x800706BA problem. | Franck RICHARD's Blog
If you need to check "Enable for on-demand distribution" In "Distribution Point Properties" in your "Distribution Point" here is a solution| Franck RICHARD's Blog
I have a lot of Pull Distributiont Point to manage (near 3000..). My problem is people around the world managing Pull Distribution Point computers are not always IT. Sometimes, they remove folder for "good" reasons or whatever. And sometimes it is SCCM which makes some impressive bugs...| Franck RICHARD's Blog
If you have error "Unable to access target machine for request" with error code "1003" in your "Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs\ccm.log" on your secondary or your primary | Franck RICHARD's Blog
One of our IIS server have HTTP Error 503 (a SCCM Distribution Point)| Franck RICHARD's Blog
This, the foul year of our lord 2020, has really really gone south on us all real quick. We went from masters of our own domain to empty nesters in record time. As our users flee for home we’ve all had to come to grips on that new reality. There’s been a lot of great […]| Dam Good Admin
While 'Patching is Rebooting' there are legitimate scenarios where you need to be certain that updates are never automatically applied and the device rebooted. In this post we'll talk about the most straightforward and reliable ways to do just that.| Dam Good Admin
One of the first arguments I ever had about ConfigMgr was around distribution points. The initial design drawn up included several secondary site servers all sitting right alongside our primary site server in our campus datacenter. The reason? As documented, each site can only support up to 250 ‘regular’ distribution points and we had nearly […]| Dam Good Admin
Update: After doing a full-court press on this we were able to get Microsoft to address this officially. My thanks to Mary Jo Foley and Donna Ryan for help make that happen. Updating Windows 10, version 1903 using Configuration Manager or WSUS Apparently Microsoft isn’t ready to talk about this yet so I guess I […]| Dam Good Admin
A couple of weeks ago I went through the history of how the cadence of Windows 10 Feature Updates has changed since Microsoft cooked up their initial cockamamie scheme. You can find that here: You’re getting SAAAAAAAC’d Last week people started asking me about various Windows 10 updates that weren’t showing up in their WSUS […]| Dam Good Admin
I’m going to shake it up here and do something totally crazy. I’m going to talk about operating systems for a moment. OSD is absolutely something in my wheel-house and I certainly have …| Dam Good Admin
I’ve created this spreadsheet and use it to track our progress week by week of our Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration project. Now that end of support for Windows 7 is under a year away I thought I’d share it for anyone who might find it useful. From week to week you only need […]| The Systems Monkey
On 11 January 2019 I had the privilege to speak at the Michigan System Center Users Group meeting on the topic of using Power BI to report your OSD build stats. This is a companion post to that presentation. This is an update to my original post ( here ) on how to gather and present […]| The Systems Monkey
I’ve been looking for a simple way to identify and map out the nested task sequences. This is the first part of a project that I’m working on. The goal of the overall project is to duplicate an entire task sequence “suite” of the parent and all nested sequences, and then update all the nested […]| The Systems Monkey
How to provide hard statistics on your build sequences. A while back my boss gave me two goals for our OS deployments; 1) he set a target for 90% successful builds and 2) build times as close to 1 hour as possible. Okay, getting there is one thing, but how do I report on that? […]| The Systems Monkey
Last week I wrote a post about setting up Windows PE Peer Caching. One of the limitations of that feature is that it only works within the Windows PE portion of a build task sequence. Once in the full OS or for deployments to established clients Peer Caching is unavailable. Phil Wilcock, co-founder of 2Pint […]| The Systems Monkey
What is Windows PE Peer Caching? Windows PE Peer Caching was a feature added in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 2. During an OS deployment, it allows a machine being built to pull content from other systems on the local subnet (its peers) as opposed to going across a potentially slow WAN connection. It is quite […]| The Systems Monkey
Part 0 Introduction Part 1 Setting Up Part 2 First VM – Windows Router Part 3 Domain Controller Part 4 Configuration Manager Infrastructure Configuration Manager 1511 After completing the fir…| The Systems Monkey