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SCCM – You can now synchronize your device collections as Azure AD groups

With the release of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 (SCCM Current Branch), you can now synchronize your device collections to Azure Active Directory, allowing you to use your on-premises grouping rules to the cloud. This is a one way SCCM to Azure AD process; any membership updates done in Azure AD will not […]

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SCCM – You can now discover your Azure AD Security Groups with SCCM

The release of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 (SCCM Current Branch) is providing an updated discovery method to your Azure AD tenant. As you may be already aware, you have been able to discover your Azure AD users objects with SCCM for quite some time now. Well, this Azure AD discovery functionality has

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SCCM – You can now use different collection for piloting co-management workloads

With the release of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 (SCCM Current Branch), the co-management feature has been improved to allow you to define different device collection while piloting co-managed workloads. With the previous release you were able to pilot the co-management for specific workloads (compliance, device configuration, Windows Update…) but the piloting applied

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SCCM – System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 is now available

The new release (1906) of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (SCCM Current Branch) is now available. As always it will be available for install from your SCCM administration console within the next few days but if you want to force the detection and install you can use the script available here http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/9/3/493BC9DE-ACAC-4D11-8B7E-5AFCECC626C2/EnableEarlyUpdateRing1906.exe This new

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SCCM – Desktop Analytics is now available in public preview

As you may be aware, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch has been providing insights about your devices using Windows Analytics, helping you in the upgrade process from previous version of Windows to Windows 10. Well, Windows Analytics is now evolving into Desktop Analytics to provide more recommendations and better application compatibility. To start

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SCCM – Improvements in OSD with SCCM 1902

As the latest release of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (1902) has been released, there has been quite few improvements. 2 of them apply (as many others) to Operating System Deployment (OSD): you can now import to SCCM only 1 index from the WIM file instead of the complete list of index you can

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SCCM – The new version (1902) of SCCM Current Branch is available

The latest update for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch has been made available. The new version (1902) will show up in the SCCM administration console (Administration Workspace\Update and Servicing). If you can not wait to get it, you can use the now famous script to force the update – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-1902-Enable-87eef616?redir=0 To get the

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Azure / SCVMM – Use Azure for the update management on SCVMM 2019

As System Center 2019 has just been released, let see how to use Azure for the update management in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2019. Off course as prerequisites you must have an Azure tenant and have an running SCVMM 2019; in addition of these obvious requirements, you will also need to have an

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System Center – System Center 2019 will be available later this month

It has been announced that the next version of the System Center suite (System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), System Center Data Protection (DPM), System Center Operation Manager (SCOM), System Center Orchestrator (SCO) and System Center Service Manager (SCSM)) will be available later this month, March 2019. System Center 2019 is the Long Term Servicing

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SCCM/MDT – The latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is available

After few months of waiting, the latest version (8456) of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is now available for download. This version provides support for Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019. You can get it from https://aka.ms/mdtdownload As always, you will have to update your existing MDT share and/or the SCCM integration.

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