Category Archives: System Center Configuration Manager Technical Preview

Manage BitLocker policies and escrow recovery keys over a cloud management gateway (CMG)

Posted on October 31, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft are continuously responding to feedback from UserVoice and one such new implementation in Technical Preview 2010.2 is the ability to manage BitLocker policies and escrow recovery keys over a cloud management gateway (CMG). For more details see here … Continue reading →

Posted in 2010.2, 20H2, BitLocker Management via CMG | 1 Comment

What’s new in Microsoft Endpoint Manager – part 2

Posted on October 4, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction These are my notes from a session @ Microsoft Ignite 2020, the session was hosted by Steve Dispensa (Director of Program Management at Microsoft Endpoint Manager) and Ramya Chitrakar (Director of Engineering at Microsoft Endpoint Manager). For the last … Continue reading →

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New features in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 2010

Posted on October 4, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction On Friday, Microsoft released the latest Technical Preview release for Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager, namely version 2010. As always, it contains a bunch of new features (based on uservoice feedback) and I’ll take a look at some of … Continue reading →

Posted in 2010, Deploy task sequence to users, Scenario health, Show Status Messages, Syntax highlighting | Leave a comment

What’s new in Microsoft Endpoint Manager – part 1

Posted on September 23, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction These are my notes from a session shown today @ Microsoft Ignite 2020, the session was hosted by Steve Dispensa (Director of Program Management at Microsoft Endpoint Manager) and Ramya Chitrakar (Director of Engineering at Microsoft Endpoint Manager). For … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Management, Microsoft Tunnel, tenant attach | Leave a comment

The right way to find logs from your CMG

Posted on September 17, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction To review logs real time on my CMG in Azure I assumed that using RDP to do so was a good idea, but that got some interesting reactions on Twitter, and I was informed that it was unsupported. I … Continue reading →

Posted in 2009, CMG, logs | 1 Comment

OSD via boot media and CMG, available in TP2009

Posted on September 15, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft have released Technical Preview 2009 and it contains a bunch of updates but one that’s very interesting is the ability to create bootable media to distribute to remote sites so that they can re-image via the CMG. This … Continue reading →

Posted in 2009, bootable media over CMG | 2 Comments

Cool new features in Technical Preview 2008

Posted on August 9, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft released TP2008 yesterday, more details here, but I was busy building my deck so I didn’t blog anything, but I did the upgrade and waited until today to see what’s new. And as usual, it’s a list of … Continue reading →

Posted in 2008, Collection Evaluation view, Collection query preview, delete aged collected diagnostic files, monitor scenario health, Setupdiag errors for feature updates, task sequence size | 1 Comment

Technical Preview 2007 Timeline improvements

Posted on July 15, 2020 by ncbrady

Technical Preview version 2007 was just released and it has some new features and even improvements to other features, one such improvement is with the Timeline feature. The device Timeline feature first showed up in Technical Preview version 2005. Before … Continue reading →

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Technical Preview 2007 is out !

Posted on July 14, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction And just like that, another version of Microsoft Endpoint Manager is released, this time it’s 2007 (Year 20, Month 07). For details about what’s new in this release see the official blog post here, Once installed you can check … Continue reading →

Posted in 2007, Resource Explorer | Leave a comment

Slides and recording from “New cloud features in Configuration Manager Technical Preview”

Posted on June 29, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction I recently did a presentation for a Belgian User Group where I talked about a bunch of cool features in Microsoft Endpoint Manager like Tenant Attach, the ability to install applications, run scripts, use CMPivot, cloud OSD and more. … Continue reading →

Posted in 2002.2, 2005, application installation, CMPivot, device timeline, run scripts, task sequence cloud content, tenant attach, VPN boundary type | Leave a comment

Microsoft Endpoint Manager TP2006 is out

Posted on June 26, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft have released a new update to the Technical Preview version of Configuration Manager, this time it’s TP2006. This release contains numerous updates of which I’ll be testing them out over the coming days, for more info about what’s … Continue reading →

Posted in 2006, tenant attach | Leave a comment

How can I calculate the cost of OSD content coming from my CMG ?

Posted on June 13, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction I recently blogged about using a Cloud Management Gateway to serve content for task media support for cloud based content and that blog post got a lot of likes and retweets on Twitter. In addition, there were several questions … Continue reading →

Posted in 2005, CMG, cost | Leave a comment

A look at task sequence media support for cloud-based content

Posted on June 1, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft recently released the mother of all technical previews for Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Configuration Manager technical preview version 2005 which I blogged about at length here. This release has amazing cloud friendly features including some new OSD features and … Continue reading →

Posted in 2005, CMG, task sequence cloud content | 3 Comments

Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager technical preview version 2005 is out

Posted on May 30, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Configuration Manager technical preview version 2005 is out and here’s a look at some of the features. This is one amazing release, so many great features ! Note: Many of the features in this release depend on your first … Continue reading →

Posted in 2005, application installation, BitLocker Encryption, CMG, CMPivot, device timeline, run scripts, task sequence cloud content, VPN boundary type | 3 Comments

Microsoft Endpoint Manager Technical Preview 2004 is out

Posted on May 2, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction It’s been a while since I blogged something but that’s because I’ve been busy (with another MVP, namely Paul) testing out CoMangement and Conditional Access, next up for our labs is CMG. Anyway, while cleaning up my labs I … Continue reading →

Posted in 2004, System Center Configuration Manager Technical Preview | 1 Comment