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Sunday debug: password reset failed

October 25, 2020August 2, 2024Sandy ZengLeave a Comment

I wasn’t planning to debug anything today on Sunday, but here I am, spent half hour debugging why I can’t reset my password. 🙂 The problem I log in to https://myaccount.microsoft.com/ portal tried to change my Office 365 account password, and surprised got an error: We’re sorry, but we cannot change your password at this […]

Deploy Microsoft 365 Apps with “Zero content”

September 8, 2020August 2, 2024Sandy ZengLeave a Comment

You most likely know how to deploy applications from ConfigMgr. Usually, you would package all the source files in a single folder to build our deployment. But when it comes to configuring and deploying Microsoft 365 Apps (previously known as Office 365 Pro Plus), there are multiple ways of doing it: Downloading the source files […]

Microsoft Intune service principal

July 5, 2020August 2, 2024Sandy Zeng2 Comments

Few weeks ago I decided to clean up my tenant, I noticed that I have lots of Azure AD service principals that are no longer needed, this is my oldest tenant and I have been testing for many stuff over past few years. My first plan was delete those what I have created, but there […]

Accounts Control – Autopilot white glove and more

June 12, 2020August 2, 2024Sandy Zeng2 Comments

Has been long time writing a blog post in here, not quite sure what topic I was going to write. In past few days I was testing “Account Control”, I am not sure if this is an official wording, I just can’t figured out better words for it. I wanted to know more about the […]

Build Azure Site-to-Site VPN with Routing and Remote Access Service

April 2, 2020August 2, 2024Sandy ZengLeave a Comment

Long time ago I have built Azure Point to Site VPN at home, in that point I thought I have to buy a hardware device for site-to-site VPN. Since work from home and VPN became a hit topics recently, I really want to try again build site-to-site VPN at my house. The reason I wanted […]

ConfigMgr: Fatal MSI Error – mp.msi could not be installed

July 24, 2019August 2, 2024Sandy ZengLeave a Comment

I have made this same mistake before, so I decided write it down this time. Today I was rebuilding my ConfigMgr test lab again, run into issue that management point installation failed, with error “Fatal MSI Error – mp.msi could not be installed”. There is not much information in MPSetup.log and mpMSI.log that can point […]

Use ConfigMgr administration service (AdminService) over internet

July 16, 2019August 2, 2024Sandy Zeng2 Comments

When I was in MMSMOA, I met Adam Gross. I have known him already in Twitter, but it’s was really nice to meeting him in person. Adam has wrote many excellent posts about AdminServcie, please read his posts for more information, I won’t go to the details here talk about what it is and how […]

Microsoft Graph Intune fun – Create Flow connector for Autopilot

July 16, 2019August 2, 2024Sandy Zeng2 Comments

In MMSMOA, Dave, Timmy and me, we presented how to make Flow custom connector for Microsoft Intune. I mentioned I have build an “automation solution” for Autopilot and promised I will write blog post about t. 🙂 Hope you understand, when I came up with idea, it was last year 2018 August. In that time […]

PowerShell Module for Microsoft Planner

July 16, 2019August 2, 2024Sandy Zeng5 Comments

Recently I fall in love with Microsoft Graph. 🙂 I was honored invited to MMSMOA talk about Intune Graph with David Falkus and Timmy Andersson. We talked about what is Microsoft Graph, how to start use it and how to use Intune Graph PowerShell SDK. Last week, Tom Degreef asked if there is PowerShell Module […]

Detect and remove application from dependent task sequences with PowerShell

December 9, 2018August 2, 2024Sandy ZengLeave a Comment

I believe most of us use install application steps during operating system deployment, unless you are using fully dynamic scripts to install applications. We often do changes in our task sequence, we made a copy of the original task sequence, made it as backup, then start modify the new ones. In some point, we updated […]