Deploy Microsoft 365 Apps with “Zero content”

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 […]

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How to query Infineon firmware TPM (Microsoft Advisory ADV170012) in ConfigMgr

If you don’t know what is this about, you must read this https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/ADV170012 Additional, in this article https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046783/bitlocker-mitigation-plan-for-vulnerability-in-tpm, it said  When TPM-based protector is used to protect the operating system volume, the security of the BitLocker protection is affected only if the TPM firmware version is 1.2. But the script what Microsoft provided doesn’t include […]

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Process completed with exit code 4294770688, Unknown error (Error: FFFD0000; Source: Unknown)

Noticed today same error message shows up in all machines that running the same Task Sequence: Process completed with exit code 4294770688, Unknown error (Error: FFFD0000; Source: Unknown) I have tested the same Task Sequence like hundred times, and I am sure there is not issue with the source package itself. So what went wrong? […]

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Windows 10 Upgrade won’t continue after reboot

Ran into a problem today, during windows 10 inplace upgrade, machine didn’t continue upgrade after reboot, it was about 70% of the update, machine shutdown and won’t restart again. Trouble shooting… yes I did find where is the issue. Because I have tested my Task Sequence like hundred times, I know what steps are 100% […]

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Monitor ConfigMgr Task Sequence with Status Message Query

This is not about monitor Task Sequence Deployment status, it is about monitor Task Sequence itself. I use package ID instead of Deployment ID, because you might need to deploy same Task Sequence to many collections with different schedule, and you will have many deployments of same Task Sequence. I don’t want to create many […]

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Fix Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade Task Sequence infinity restart loop

We successfully did Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade for hundreds machines, but few of them went into infinity restart loop at the end. Troubleshoot wasn’t easy, especially do it remotely. Yeah, you are right, how to troubleshoot and fix a computer that reboot itself and also has bitlocker and bitlocker PIN? Sounds mission impossible, but WE […]

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Custom Windows 10 OS Build Number WMI Classes and reporting into SCCM

Updated: Since SCCM 1802, inventory is included Windows 10 build version numbers. So this post is outdated now. Additional Note: Since I posted this, I got an excellent feedback from Mike Terrill @miketerrill , he asked me why not just use the registry property provider to inventory the UBR registry. I guess I must admit […]

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Duplicate users cause user-targeted mandatory deployment issues

Last friday one customer said their users didn’t get any applications from Software Center. So I started to check what is the issue, or if there is any issue. Applications are deployed to user collections as mandatory. Based on reports, applications are installed to some users successfully, there is no errors in the reports, but […]

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