MEMCM

Updating MEMCM (Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager) to version 1910 on Christmas Eve

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Introduction

Configuration Manager 1910 went globally available this friday, december 20, so I wanted to stay true to tradition and walk through the upgrade process based on my own environment.

This is usually something I do the very moment it’s possible to opt-in using the early update ring, but this time around the hours usually spent on blogging, are spent on my new born (9 weeks today). 🙂

As usual, this is based on a production environment. This might seem ballsy to do during the holiday season, but I’m confident I will be fine. Also, backup ftw, right? 😀 (NOTE: This particular environment have survived upgrades since SCCM 2012 without ever breaking)

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Windows 10 Toast Notification Script Update: Retrieve task sequence deadline dynamically from WMI

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Introduction

Another neat update to the Windows 10 Toast Notification Script is a reality. Now being on version 1.4.4.

The new version brings a new deadline option, that when enabled, will look in WMI for the specified task sequence package id, and retrieve the deadline of the required deployment dynamically.

This time a thank you goes out to @kevmjohnston for contributing with idea and bits of code. 🙂

What’s new and delicious are mentioned in details below.

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Co-management with ConfigMgr and Intune and a little something about Microsoft Defender antimalware policies

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Introduction

Originally when the Endpoint Protection workload for co-management was introduced with Configuration Manager 1802, this was done without antimalware policies.

That essentially meant that antimalware policies was still being managed solely by Configuration Manager, while a feature like Exploit Guard was managed by Intune.

Now, this has since changed (at the time of writing, I’m not sure when they snug in the addition, but that’s not related to the post anyway) and the workload now includes antimalware policies enabling us to manage all aspects of Microsoft Defender with Microsoft Intune.

So what does that mean, and are there anything specifically you need to be aware of? I believe there is. 🙂

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Remind users to enroll into Windows Hello for Business using Toast Notifications and ConfigMgr

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Introduction

I recently did a tweet about doing a toast notification to lure end-users into enrolling their device with Windows Hello for Business voluntarily.

Prior to doing the tweet, I found my self wrestling with Powershell and a way to locate devices not enrolled into WHfB yet. Seeing I only wanted to nag people not enrolled yet, this was a requirement for the entire process.

So this post is a little something on both the actual toast notification, but also on how I ended up locating devices not enrolled into WHfB yet using a Compliance Baseline in ConfigMgr.

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