Over the years I’ve generally stayed with a specific piece of advice when performing driver injection when deploying Windows images using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or System Center Configuration Manager. You start with the expanded driver files and import...
I’ve been playing around with Azure RemoteApp and App-V in Azure to find a nice little limitation that I think is a huge design consideration. Lately I’ve been deploying my virtual machines with Azure Resource Manager because it is the future platform and...
When testing or trying to resolve an issue the default sync settings with Intune can be lacking. If the device is enrolled the initial behavior is every 3 minutes for 30 minutes, and then every 24 hours. If a policy or application is sent to the device Intune will try...
I had some fun getting to the bottom of this error and I found some potential issues that can cause this error to pop up that might not be apparent. We had the Azure AD user account configured for Azure AD Join and the user was not over the limit of devices they could...
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals Are More Than ExpertsThis year’s Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Summit in Redmond, Washington was an excellent event that showcased over 50 technical sessions and brought together many influential people from around...
The status of the endpoint protection agent is stored in SMS_G_System_EPDeploymentState view but the key to the query is filtering on the DeploymentState field. The query below will return any machine that is not fully managed via Configuration Manager.select...
IntroductionThe reason I thought it would be good to look at a ClickOnce applications and App-V 5. Out of the box App-V does not handle the packaging of ClickOnce applications without changing the Sequencer configuration and jumping through some hoops...
IntroductionApp-V training takes many forms and I recommend you take a look at the various offerings available to determine what best suits your needs from both a delivery and content perspective. Training for App-V is offered by Microsoft and a number of customized...
MVPDays is a community roadshow for Canadians that was co-founded in 2014 by Dave and Cristal Kawula of Tricon Elite consulting to give the Microsoft IT PRO community an in person event that they could attend and get real world advice from recognized experts in the...
For those of you watching the schedule the LA class for GridmasterTraining’s App-V 5.0 SP3 course has been 100% confirmed to run. The course will be taking place at the Best Western Course held at the Best Western Carriage Inn, 5525 Sepulveda Boulevard, Sherman...
Well it’s another year and we’ve decided to throw our names in the hat for speaking at this year’s Briforum USA. This year, Nike Kallen and I will focus in more depth the management challenges that some customers are facing with one of the largest...
I thought I would post a note over here. I did a quick piece on some of the new courses in the Microsoft Virtual Academy that you can take at your own pace online. I’ve gone through some of the courses and actually was surprised by the quality so I’m...
The title is a mouthful but this is a quick way to get a list of machines that may be potential clients. This query assumes that Active Directory system discovery is enabled with the default attributes.select SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.LastLogonTimestamp,...
When looking for machines sometimes it is nice to know if they have even talked to the domain recently. Here is some quick PowerShell to get you on your way.Get-ADComputer -Filter ‘ObjectClass -eq “Computer”‘ -Properties PasswordLastSet | FT...
Now that I’ve been using UE-V lately for customer environments I’ve noticed a very bizarre error that can pop up when installing the UE-V 2.0 agent or tools. As you can see below the error message that comes up is rather frightening and suggests that there...
Here are some highlights from the summer device update from Kalvin Falconar at Microsoft.Surface Family Flyer PDFWindows Device Choices June 2014IntroductionEarlier in June the Surface Pro 3 was announced and Surface Authorized Device Resellers are already shipping...
Today I ran into a bit of a surprise trying to start a SQL server up from a reboot. The server was working before the reboot so I had a bad feeling that this issue might be difficult. The first thing I did is check the SQL server log to see what happened.2014-08-23...
I recently found an unusual way that this error can manifest itself in a site. I was deploying sites successfully except one of them cropped up with the SMS_HEIRARCHY_MANAGER_ERROR 3353. If you look at the error message below it makes the issue out to be a SQL...
Recently I was working on setting up a migration manager connection from a Configuration Manager 2012 site of questionable health to a clean site. In the process I got hung up on an error message that suggested several potential causes for my issue but wasn’t...
So some of you might be curious about SMB 1.0 and weather you can turn off the protocol. The bad news is that if you are still running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 there is a need to still run that protocol. If you are running filers it would be important to...
Here is the latest list of devices:https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D1376BA87A35887F%215462A Note from the Author: Kalvin Falconar @ MicrosoftThe attached Windows Device Choices – April 2014spreadsheet contains many new mobile devices. It has been reorganized...
Just a FYI here is another list of new Windows tablets being made available.https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D1376BA87A35887F%214480Also if you are curious about business cases I have a total economic impact report on using Windows tablets in...
Kalvin Falconar over at Microsoft Canada sends out some regular updates as to new devices coming out in the Windows tablet category. Since the information is free to share you can find February’s update over here. http://sdrv.ms/1eslAk5
On February 25th the Calgary IT Pro, Calgary Systems Management User Group and the Calgary Virtualization user group are getting together for the Cloud OS MVP Roadshow event in Calgary. There will be lunch, refreshments and an Xbox One giveaway. Below is an overview...
