Introduction Microsoft recently released Configuration Manager Technical Preview version 1909 which contained updates to the integrated MBAM functionality within Configuration Manager and I blogged about that here, those updates included Self Service and Help Desk abilities. In a previous blog post you looked at the Self Service feature for end users and then you looked at the Help Desk feature. But what happens on the client and in the database once the recovery key has been dis

Introduction Microsoft recently released Configuration Manager Technical Preview version 1909 which contained updates to the integrated MBAM functionality within Configuration Manager and I blogged about that here, those updates included Self Service and Help Desk abilities. In a previous blog post you looked at the Self Service feature for end users. This blog post will look at the Help Desk feature. But first, why would a user need to call a help desk (in relation to MBAM). Here’s wh

Introduction Microsoft recently released Configuration Manager Technical Preview version 1909 which contained updates to the integrated MBAM functionality within Configuration Manager and I blogged about that here, namely Self Service and Help Desk abilities. In this blog post we’ll look at the Self Service feature for end users. Self Service What is the Self Service feature ?  well to put it quite simply, it allows the end user (that has the BitLocker Recovery prompt) to solve th

Anyone tried to determine hardware UEFI capability with SCCM? I am trying to find out if a machine is UEFI capable, cant fine any way to do it at this point.

Hello!   When I download SCCM driver packages from Dell, the packages contain not just .inf files, but also .exe/.msi installers. In the past, I just extracted all the files from these packages into a folder, and imported the whole lot into SCCM.   The takes up a huge space (SCCM driver source files + SCCM driver package files). I'm wondering if only the .inf files are actually needed, and I am supposed to actually delete the .exe/.msi installers in the source folde

i'm working to upgrade my SCCM version from 1610 to 1710 and after made check prerequisites , i found there are two warning as shown in the attached print screen. i have uninstalled the old version of ADK then installed the latest version then tried again without any positive progress. please help .

I am having issues installing the sccm client on the server. I have tried deployment from the console and selecting domain controllers to install and it tries to go through fails. I also tried command line installation, uninstalling using ccmsetup.exe /uninstall and even used ccmclean.exe. I can see that the registry is cleared, all files deleted on the windows folder and no services showing running. All other computers are updating properly and only this domain controller is giving me problems.

Hi all. I've been connecting just fine using an account that is a full administrator on the site server. Now, unless I run the program as an administrator, and use a different "full administrator" account, I get the following error. Please guide me in resolve (what logs etc) The Configuration Manager console cannot connect to the Configuration Manager site database. Verify the following:       •    This computer has network connectivity to the SMS Provider computer.       •    Your use