Background A couple of years back I had a customer that wanted to prompt users to run a Windows 10 in-place upgrade. Although the customer knew they’d have to force the upgrade at a certain point, they wanted to give the end users an opportunity to run the upgrade on their schedule to minimize impact. […]
Over on the r/PowerShell subreddit, user u/3rddegreeofIT asked for assistance with using PowerShell to enable Bitlocker on systems with no TPM. They defined their criteria as: Modifies registry to allow Advanced Startup Modifies registry to allow BitLocker Drive Encryption without TPM Set encryption to AES 256 Require a password on boot Encrypt Used Space Only […]
If you have not yet, give my Managing BIOS/UEFI Settings from Configuration Manager series a quick read as a primer for this post. When working on the previous UEFI settings series, I ran in to a scenario where a customer had a few different UEFI passwords in their environment. I have seen this scenario before […]
This is a multipart post:Part 1: The code underneathPart 2: Using as Configuration ItemsPart 3: Using as ApplicationsPart 4: Using in a task sequence – You are here This topic has no doubt been covered many times before. My work on it started when I stumbled upon Damien Van Robaeys’ post a couple weeks ago. […]
This is a multipart post:Part 1: The code underneathPart 2: Using as Configuration ItemsPart 3: Using as Applications – You are herePart 4: Using in a task sequence This topic has no doubt been covered many times before. My work on it started when I stumbled upon Damien Van Robaeys’ post a couple weeks ago. […]
This is a multipart post:Part 1: The code underneathPart 2: Using as Configuration Items – You are herePart 3: Using as ApplicationsPart 4: Using in a task sequence This topic has no doubt been covered many times before. My work on it started when I stumbled upon Damien Van Robaeys’ post a couple weeks ago. […]
This is a multipart post:Part 1: The code underneath – You are herePart 2: Using as Configuration Items Part 3: Using as ApplicationsPart 4: Using in a task sequence This topic has no doubt been covered many times before. My work on it started when I stumbled upon Damien Van Robaeys’ post a couple weeks […]
The latest version of the MEMCM Client Extension for Windows Admin Center (WAC) has gone live. For those of you with previous versions you will automatically be prompted to upgrade. For those new to the extension, see the original post. What’s New:1. SCCM to MEMCM name change where possible2. misc. bug fixes3. Baseline report now […]
It is no secret that I am a fan of Windows Admin Center (WAC). I wrote an extension to handle CM client tasks within WAC a year or so back that you can find more information about here. I have finally got around to a small addition that kept getting de-prioritized on my to do […]
Did you know that you can run a CM script on a client via the admin service? Neither did I until a few days ago. Earlier this week I was checking out the available items from the CM 2006 administration service REST API. I went to the metadata page at https://<provider FQDN>/AdminService/v1.0/$Metadata and started looking […]