Recently I have been running a problematic 100% disk active time on my System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) environment. SCCM has been running quite smoothly for few years; running on Windows Server 2019 with SQL co-located. One day I noticed the disks, where the databases are save, were continuously active (100% disk active time) and […]
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As you may be aware, a new Windows analytics solution has been released in preview called Desktop Analytics few months ago (see https://t.co/VqQV4WRj83). Desktop Analytics is aimed to replace the well-known Windows Analytics which has been here for quite some time through 3 Log Analytics solutions: Upgrade Readiness, Update Compliance and Device Health. If you
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If you are using System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (SCCM Current Branch) to manage and deploy Windows Update updates, you can now deploy Windows 10 Insider updates too with SCCM Software Update. you must be running SCCM Current Branch 1810 or later to be able to configure it. To enable this capability you just
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With the release of the new System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 (SCCM Current Branch), you can now install one or more applications to a device directly from the administration console. It is important to note that you need: to have the Approve application request for users per device optional feature enabled the application
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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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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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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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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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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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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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