Long story short, how can we upgrade machines from Windows 10 LTSB 2016 (1607) to Semi Annual Channel? These are machines that also have many user profiles that need to be preserved. Also, the apps that are currently installed need to remain. First we need to cleanup the user profiles…

A quick note dump on how I set this up. Most commonly, I find they are either setup as (Intune or ConfigMgr). Our happy Medium is Pilot Intune. Some folks actually prefer to keep this setting permanently and just populate the collections in SCCM. This is my method. Combined with…

As we know beginning in Configuration Manager 2107, the virtual machine set option for cloud management gateway is out of preview. Deprecated features — Configuration Manager | Microsoft Docs Classic Cloud deployments for the CMG will now be considered deprecated after March 1, 2022. I’m deleting my classic cloud deployment…

Long story short, I needed to recursively install all Windows Updates, within a directory tree silently. These are .cab files. They are structured as below: Credit to original script thread I repurposed. I also know there are fancier PowerShell ways to do this. I needed something quick and dirty: Batch file: For each inf in directory, install it Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow! Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share…stackoverflow.com

Now comes the fun part. Here we are Once pre-requisites are filled, the Windows 365 blade lights up within your Intune Tenant. Until then, it’s just a landing page. Let’s go ahead and create our on prem connection to our lab

I just wanted to write a brief blurb on this. I was nominated earlier this year and was pleasantly surprised to receive the email: Obviously, it’s one of the top honors in my field (other than perhaps working at Microsoft and carrying a blue badge). Here is some of the swag I received:

Long Story short here, but ran into a situation where the following was occurring: Cloud Management Gateway Status is Ready The Connection Point Status is Disconnected See Screenshot below: It also turns out the connection analyzer wouldn’t even get past step 2. Also, after checking the \Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs\SMS_Cloud_ProxyConnector.log…

I’m going to give the Microsoft published guidance a whirl, and intertwine my notes. Essentially, this is all the stuff that needs to be done prior to the Endpoint Manager Console will actually showing you the option to create provisioning policies, on prem connections,etc. Here is Microsoft’s overview Windows 365 deployment overview Windows 365 deployment overviewdocs.microsoft.com First we…

This was a rare one. The short of it is, the storage account name had been taken by another customer. Similar to the cloudapp.net namespace, it’s flat. That means when you create your service you need to select a distinct name. Normally, when you select your CMG name, a good…