I work in Workplace Management projects since a long time and troubleshooting was sometimes a nightmare, including with ConfigMgr. You had to read a lot of log files to recognize the core issue of a problem to be able to implement a solution. But I saw that only a small
We all know, that sometimes applications need user settings in the Current User Registry or File Changes in the User Profile. Therefore, two main Technologies could be used: MSI Repair / Targeted Shortcuts Active Setup Most of the Package Engineers I know use Active Setup, when the package was not
Today I could extend my MiniWebService (Which is freeware !!!) with a new great feature which will help ConfigMgr Admins to maintain their devices. Typically we write some information, like the Staging date and all the device variables to the local registry during OSD. The new feature allows administrators to
I have updated the MiniWebService which is available for free. The first feature was the ability to request all device or user targeted applications over http to install them dynamically. Many customers are using this feature already. Now I extended it, so that the search only returns applications, which are
In part four of this post series, you will see how you could get the encrypted password back from the MiniWebService. You can implement this script to the ConfigMgr console, run it standalone or you can embed it for example to netECM:UserDevice. Part 1 – Background Information Part 2 –
In part three of this post series, we will create the ConfigMgr Settings Item to generate new passwords on the devices on a regular schedule. It is also possible to run the PowerShell script with a scheduled task, but for now I will show the implementation with ConfigMgr. Part 1
In part two of this post series, I will explain how we could solve our problem with ConfigMgr Settings Management and the MiniWebService, which is available for free. Part 1 – Background Information Part 2 – Solution Overview and installing netECM:MiniWebservice (This Post) Part 3 – Creating ConfigMgr Settings Item
The security bulletin MS14-025 describes that the functionality to store passwords is removed from Group Policy Objects. This is important, if you have installed this update on the machines where you edit your group policy objects. This will be only the first blog about this topic, because various customers of
With this tool you can embed our netECM applications into the Configuration Manager 2012 Console. You have access to netECM:App to register applications much easier than with the ConfigMgr built in wizard or you can also start the netECM:UserDevice Web based Console. This administration interface is also available as freeware.
Since I work with Configuration Manager, I’m not very happy with the staging process. Every Configuration Manager User knows the problem that applications are installed after the task sequence finished and the customer would like to start using his computer and nothing is displayed on the login screen of windows.
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