Recover your Office 365 admin account

20 juli 2017 Azure Solutions No Comments
While studying for the 70-533 exam (which I passed) I purchased an Office 365 subscription and connected it to my Azure AD.  I added the domain name to Azure AD and also to Office 365. After the exam I decided to clean up my Azure subscription and accidently deleted my…

Frequent, continuous releases coming for System Center

22 juni 2017 System Center No Comments
Microsoft recently added a blog post about the update frequency for System Center. However, the update frequency for SCCM is not changed: System Center Configuration Manager will continue to offer three releases a year to give you the latest updates for managing servers, PCs, and mobile devices.

SCCM – Duplicate Device Records

6 juni 2017 ConfigMgr Powershell SCCM Script No Comments
A few days back I was investigating duplicate device records in SCCM. Basically, there are two major reasons for duplicate device records: Reinstalling a device Active Directory delta discovery For the first reason SCCM has some built-in solutions. In the Hierarchy Settings there’s an option for conflicting client records. This…

SCCM – Windows Update settings and errors

26 mei 2017 ConfigMgr SCCM No Comments
The last two weeks I was very busy deploying a specific update to several hundred servers. Besides the deployment I also spent some time answering questions about the process because some collegues didn’t understand why it took longer than expected. Because I didn’t find the answers all in one place I…

Upgrading to SCCM 1702

13 mei 2017 ConfigMgr SCCM No Comments
Yesterday was the day! The change request was approved so I could upgrade the site to the latest version 1702. In this post I will give you a quick walkthrough of that update. The first step I performed was checking if all backups were ok. They were… Updates and hotfixes…

Powershell – looking up HP warranty information

8 mei 2017 Powershell Script No Comments
Today I wanted to get an overview of the warranty information of our ESX hosts. All the hosts are added to a HP Insight Remote Support server so the warranty information is available. However, using this information from powershell is a bit more challenging. Fortunately I found a powershell module…

Creating Azure JSON templates with Visual Studio Code

6 mei 2017 Azure No Comments
Because I am practising for the 70-533 exam I thought I could try to create some Azure JSON templates. For this I wanted to use Visual Studio Code. On the Azure documentation site there are some great examples to get you started. After installing Visual Studio Code I installed the…