Cause Due to an Azure service outage affecting Azure Automation; automation jobs were not running on a Hybrid Worker and going to a failed state or hanging. The issue was raised with Microsoft, who advised us to remove a certificate from the Microsoft Monitoring Agent store. However, this was before they were fully aware of […]

Managing users and devices is always fun; a major challenge for me was always assigning assets without unnecessarily purchasing or depleting the device stock. An unused or under utilised device in an organisation can potentially be money down the drain. As configMgr admins, we have the data already to determine whats inactive and potentially reusable devices […]

The ConfigMgr Dashboards Died what happened?! Following Microsoft’s announcement changing the service periods for Windows 10 to 30 months; it looks like the amendments to the Windows life-cycle fact sheet has broken the Power BI ConfigMgr Current Branch Dashboard.   RIP OS Support Life Cycle Page… For Now This change unfortunately means that sadly the […]

This month we ended up moving one of our offices into a new building.  Of course, there are many elements that go into moving a building with local IT infrastructure.  In this case, one thing that had to be done was moving the devices to a new Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Server (DPM). […]