Remove the local admin from your AAD Users
UPDATE on 27.06.23: Please, if you run into the scenario described in this article you should use Windows LAPS instead creating a user with a static password. Yes, if need …
Category: Tech
This category will show you all posts in my blog related to technical stuff e.g. Microsoft ConfigMgr, Windows Client, hMailserver and so on.
Update Management Center – From ConfigMgr to Arc
The Update Management Center finally dropped publicly! Just like the “Update Management” feature from Azure Automation the UMC supports Azure, on-prem and other cloud providers. As long as you can …
Creating a Firewall rule through MEM is broken right now
Update as of 11th of July: I can confirm this has been resolved. New rules do not have preset settings anymore and its possible to create rules without issues. Thanks …
DFSR Event ID 5014 Error 9036 with a new Domain Controller
First of all some stats: I stood up my Domain Controller on Fri Sep 13 2013 22:53:26 UTC+0200 (Central European Summer Time). It is a 2012R2 Essentials at first, now …
CCMExec and VCRedist_x64.exe exit code 1638
Recently I discovered an error that I had not seen before with a ccmsetup.log. As long as Articulate 360 was installed it was impossible to install CCM. The software is …
Migrating CCM agents to a new site – 0x8000ffff and SMSSLP
While its not as bad as my last issue with the _same_ error code, the thumbnail picture is still justified here. There’re already some blogs about this error showing up …
Co-Management error 0x8000ffff for AAD joined devices
Whew – not only has it been quite a while since I wrote something, but this issue even took a Microsoft Premier Support case to solve. If you’re following me …
Remove “Lenovo Pen Settings” prompt
I am working at a customer that exclusively uses Lenovo for all their devices (from notebooks to desktops). Recently I stumbled on a request which is all to common these …
Office Readiness Toolkit per User – without MSI
UPDATE 2024: Use the Readiness Toolkit to assess application compatibility for Microsoft 365 Apps – Deploy Office | Microsoft Learn The tool will be deprecated in March 2024. So you …
Christmas Ads: Microsoft Surface vs. Apple iPad
Hey everyone,so, apparently its just 4 weeks to Christmas and oh what is this? Christmas Ads you say? Lets have a look. And obviously we’re going to start with the …