You can find lots of these lists on various blogs, but I wanted to share some of the more useful non-standard queries I use. Quick and dirty list of clients to show primary user and OS: Bitlocker – Unencrypted Clients: Bitlocker – Encrypted Clients: Bitlocker – TPM Info for Unencrypted Machines: Hardware – Desktops: Hardware […]
Lazy sysadmins last week: Lazy sysadmins after WannaCry got them: If you want to read about the nitty gritty fun of the WannaCry outbreak, check out Troy Hunt’s blog: https://www.troyhunt.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-wannacrypt-ransomware/ Patch your stuff! No excuses.
Last week I attended the Microsoft Tech Summit in Chicago. It was a fantastic event that offered tons of free training sessions, free exam preparation, and free Azure exams. On top of all that free stuff, the whole event was free. All I really had to pay for was transportation, hotel, and dinner (since I was […]
I just wanted to share this post from the “Ask Premier Field Engineering” blog: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2017/01/17/turn-on-that-scary-dc/ In the past I had clients with similar issues, but I’d removed the DC and done metadata cleanup as if it were a long lost irretrievable DC. What if there was a need to get data off of the orphan domain controller? […]
UPDATE – This issue is reportedly fixed with the January Office patches. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3141473 for details. Thanks to Janis for pointing this out! After installation of KB3118374, users that have sync’d calendars and\or task lists from SharePoint Online to their local install of Outlook 2016 are experiencing authentication errors. Symptoms are a popup that reads “The server you […]
In case you missed it, Microsoft has released a really nice lab rollup that is pre-configured with tons of functionality. The unsexily titled “Windows 10 Deployment and Management Lab Kit” is actually really cool, and will save you tons of time. Want to test deploying Windows 10 with SCCM? Included. Want to test a BitLocker […]
Almost a year ago I made a post about creating detailing the steps to create a Windows 10 Assigned Access Web Browser App for use in a kiosk computer scenario. That post has remained the most popular one on my blog, and has yielded the most questions. Well, I’m happy to say there’s now a […]
Just a followup to my last post. I ran through the upgrade myself this morning without issue. In fact, it was the easiest thing I think I’ve ever done with a System Center product. Good job, Microsoft. Total time was about 30 minutes for our basic two server implementation – your mileage may vary. Instead […]
The new quarterly update for SCCM is rolling out now – SCCM 1602! I read this blog post from the SCCM team last week, but only today received this notification when opening my SCCM console: After clicking OK, we can make our way over to the Administration > Cloud Services > Updates and Servicing node, […]
I had done a project to implement a local admin account password management system a few years ago, and just today stumbled across “Local Administrator Password Solution” aka LAPS – a free, officially supported Microsoft solution for managing local admin passwords within Active Directory. You can download it from Microsoft here. And here is a […]