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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Tamper Protection Extends Client Coverage

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Every business needs to be on top of its game when it comes to matters of the security of its IT infrastructure. Because even the smallest of vulnerabilities can be exploited to devastating effect. And Microsoft Defender ATP is ready to mitigate those risks. Not recognizing these risks can potentially cause the shutting down of a business, at best temporarily. And research has shown that the cost of downtime to a company can quite easily run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. As we can all imagine, the losses that a business would suffer would be colossal, to say the … Continue reading →

Microsoft Endpoint Manager – New, Exciting Features To Know About

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When it comes to Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), there’s always a steady stream of new features that clients should be paying attention to. Technology is constantly changing and the products that we use need to improve as well. Especially if we consider the recent surge in cybercrime as seen in the FBI’s 2020 internet crime report. No business is immune and as such, technology companies have to consistently enhance their products to ensure that clients’ data is secure. With security in mind, let’s take a look at the exciting new features that Microsoft is bringing to the MEM platform. Enhancing … Continue reading →

Why Cloud Management Gateway Is So Important Now

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With the prevailing global situation requiring more and more people to work from home, businesses need to ensure that productivity does not suffer. And to do that, you need to effectively manage remote devices. Hence the need for technology such as the Cloud Management Gateway (CMG). By utilizing the CMG, your business has an alternative to IBCM that most would consider a significant upgrade. This creates a favorable environment that allows your organization to eliminate the obstacles of having a remote workforce. Needless to say but the CMG can play a massive role in your organization and its importance is … Continue reading →

Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Benefits of Being Able to View Hardware Inventory in MEM

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In July 2020, Microsoft announced the release of update 2007 for the Technical Preview Branch of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM). And with that, came a feature that now allows you to view hardware inventory for a tenant-attached Configuration Manager device in the admin center. With most pieces of hardware in offices today being connected to the internet, being able to view hardware inventory is extremely important. Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) now offers that capability and thus gives your business several advantages. Getting set up Before you can use this feature, there are several requirements that you will need to … Continue reading →

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager: Latest Improvements to the Product Lifestyle Dashboard

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Information is key for any business to function optimally. That is why there is such a massive increase in the use of big data during the last decade. But, this information is not only that which you can obtain externally. It’s also information concerning your internal operations. And this is where Microsoft’s Product Lifecycle Dashboard enters the fray. It simplifies the way your organization functions in a big way. By providing you with information concerning all the products that you have installed on devices that are managed by Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, tracking is simple. This is a fantastic feature … Continue reading →

Automate Configuration Manager Application Creation

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A simple script example to automate the application creation process in ConfigMgr or Configuration Manager. RebootBehavior set to NoAction, Accepted values: BasedOnExitCode, NoAction, ForceReboot, ProgramRebootAutoInstall $true – indicates whether a task sequence action can install the applicationAdded Action to Distribute the Content to the DP Group at the end Configuration Manager Checklist: https://github.com/ThomasMarcussen/assortedScripts/blob/master/Create_SCCMApplication_1.0.1.ps1

SMS_SITE_BACKUP failed. Please see previous errors.

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I ran into this issue, where after sometime the SMS Build-in backup function would fail.When running the SMS_SITE_BACKUP from Window Services (services.msc) it would fail with some of the following errors: SMS_SITE_BACKUP failed. Please see previous errors. Error: SMS Writer service either does not exist or is not running . Error: GatherWriterMetadata failed. SMS_SITE_BACKUP failed. Please see previous errors. STATMSG: ID=5060 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE=”SMS Server” COMP=”SMS_SITE_BACKUP” SYS=Server001.domain.com SITE=PS1 PID=67372 TID=61212 GMTDATE=Thu Dec 10 01:20:41.530 2020 ISTR0=”Error: GatherWriterMetadata failed.” ISTR1=”” ISTR2=”” ISTR3=”” ISTR4=”” ISTR5=”” ISTR6=”” ISTR7=”” ISTR8=”” ISTR9=”” NUMATTRS Resolution:List the VSS writers available with the following command: VSSADMIN list writersIf … Continue reading →

List Packages that run in user context (Run with user’s rights)

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Introduction After last weeks post with the script sample to list Packages that run in user context, there where some good feedback from people still using packages, and requiring a list of packages that install within the user context (Run with user’s rights / Execution mode as user) It seemed that many was still using Packages, either as a result of legacy migration or to avoid some application re-packaging. So here is the followup post, with a new script to list all packages and package with programs that run in user context. From my point of view, its still the … Continue reading →

List Applications that run in user context (Install for User)

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Introduction When deploying applications sometimes they are created to install within the active users context. This means that the actual installation requires the users to have the needed permissions to the filesystem, registry and etc. In some cases local administrative rights are needed to perform the application installation, this is not a good practice. As applications mature for the modern design of the Windows Operating System or we choose to remove the users administrative rights due to security reasons, we may need to list and change the behavior of existing Applications. This script was created to list applications that is … Continue reading →

Configuration Manager 1810 Installation – Prerequisite Check – SQL Server Native Client Version

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I came across this error while adopting the Configuration Manager 1810 (Early Update Ring) [Completed with warning]:Verifies that the version of Microsoft SQL Server Native Client installed on the site server meets the minimum requirements to enable TLS 1.2 support. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2026746 I was apparently running an older SQL Native client version, that did not support TLS 1.2 which is required for ConfigMgr 1810. Review your SQL versions and update to a version that supports TLS 1.2: This link provides information about the updates that Microsoft is releasing to enable TLS 1.2 support for SQL Server 2017 on Windows, SQL Server … Continue reading →