A lot of organization are moving to Microsoft Office 365 and Windows 10. This is for many reasons such as Windows 7 end of life approaching and organizations are demanding a modern workplace for end users. As part of that Microsoft OneDrive For Business (OD4B) is a common initiative. While moving to Windows 10 you […]
I experienced an issue this week with ConfigMgr cloud management gateway not communicating with the primary site. The CMG essentially looked like it died, even though the site itself looked completely healthy. The root cause is still being investigated by Microsoft, but we managed to find a workaround without losing devices which were internet only […]
Issue: Ran into an issue when initially setting up a new Automation account using an ARM template. We noticed that the module versions in the automation account were out of date, at the time we decided to ignore it thinking it was a anomaly. Fast forward a couple days and when trying to use an […]
So like the the King of the North the GUI in Windows Server looks set to be resurrected with Microsoft’s announcement of “Project Honolulu”! Microsoft Ignite is going to see the launch of Microsoft’s new local browser based management platform and tools for Windows Server. What to Expect Microsoft haven’t given a lot away but […]
I’ve recently been working on a new starters creation process. The process relied heavily on querying a hosted HR system on Salesforce. To achieve this a Salesforce authentication token was required to invoke rest methods via PowerShell. Using PowerShell I was able to create the below function to achieve this :). PowerShell Function Calling The PowerShell Function […]
You may have found yourself in a situation where you need to set up a System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) Software Update Management Strategy. For example, you are tasked to set up a phased approach to deploying Windows updates to your Windows 10 devices. When you first start looking at this, it can seem like […]
When using Runbooks in Azure Automation, we can use a Hybrid Worker Group to access local resources within that groups data center. The Hybrid Worker Groups can be targeted when starting a Azure Automation Runbook . For more on Runbooks see Starting a runbook in Azure Automation. With an Azure Automation webhook, we can start […]
After months of planning and hard work, we’re excited to announce The DevOps Hub to the world finally! The DevOps Hub is a Blog, News and Resource website for all things System Management, Cloud Services and Automation. Why We Started The DevOps Hub was formed as a platform to give back to the community which […]
The PowerON Power BI Configuration Manager Dashboard 1612 is now out! With the 1611 version We’ve had some great feedback from the community and made some minor changes to the queries as well as adding some additional support information from Microsoft. Version 1611 Release Notes•Included Branch Support information from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/servers/manage/current-branch-versions-supported into the admin settings. •Addressed […]
So I came across a random issue when working on enabling PS remoting on a Windows 2012 R2 server with a customer then other day. IssueWhen trying to run Enable-PSRemoting, It would return an error saying: Unable to check the status of the firewall issue. ResolutionThe customer had removed the Windows Remote Management inbound rules in […]
