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are you pressing F12 when prompted ?

have you seen

let's just focus on one problem at a time, your e-http setup, did you configure it like i said ? and are your roles all configured in http only or ?

try setting it like this

it's a bit unclear from your post but what is your actual goal here, are you trying to enable ConfigMgr in HTTPS mode (PKI) or are you trying to use e-http (enhanced http), or do you simply have client issues with invalid sms certs ?

hi there, all the scripts are freely downloadable as long as you are a logged on member of windows-noob.com, which you now are, so please try again @Champ

and what does it report when you evaluate the compliance of that configuration ?

good info, can you show me your Configurations tab in the configmgr client agent...

show me screenshots of your configured settings, something is not right

ok if the mbam client is not getting installed then there's something wrong with your policy settings, are you sure you've configured Client Management and set it to Enabled ?

i mean, do the client versions correspond to the site version, if yes then let's figure out if the client is getting the policy or not, did you check on the configmgr client agent to see if the bitlocker policy you configured is listed ?

are your clients updated with the latest configmgr client agent ?

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These are two different parts of the organization and they have different needs, so they should be good target groups for the data that we need. In the screenshot below we can dig down and see that services are healthy and all of the numbers are looking good. Next we can verify the version (in real-time) of the target software we intend to change, and below we can see it’s not yet upgraded. We can also see the services running, or in the example below, that a Zoom sharing Service is both stopped and disabled. It was disabled as a policy was created to not allow that service to run in the manufacturing group, for security reasons, to stop the release of important and confidential information. For the marketing group another policy was created to allow it to run. Post-change rules to guarantee state Any area of a business that goes down due to change management processes that go wrong costs that business money, so to avoid that, policies are created in Tachyon in Guaranteed State. 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If we take a closer look at a rule, in this case a rule to Ensure the DNS service is in a correct state, you can see from the screenshot below that the rule looks at optional Pre-conditions, Triggers, the Check itself and an optional Fix. What about non-compliance post-change ? Seeing real-time results that reveal non-compliance post-change is a great ability. That can be revealed by our Guaranteed State policies. To test this, killing a service which is checked for (one of the rules above) reveals this in real-time. Below a service is stopped… and reviewing the rules results, you can straight away see that there is non-compliance and drill down to find out more information. This is instantaneous, which means you can see how to control the change management process with ease by gathering data and responding effectively. “So how quick is quick ?” This really depends on what you are looking at, for example disk space might be polled every minute or 30 seconds. But when you are talking about registry changes or config file changes or services, that is real-time. Conclusion Change happens all the time in business and while most companies have their own change management processes to deal with that change, they are very likely contributing to their own workloads by the way they do it. Remember, internal changes that are not correctly monitored pre and post change can cause major problems. Using Tachyon Experience and Tachyon Guaranteed State gives your admins the power to see those results in real-time and allows them to easily tweak the change management process to increase their success rate. DISCLAIMER: The contents of this article are the opinion of the author and have been written from an impartial standpoint; however, 1E may have reimbursed the author for time and expenses for undertaking the findings and conclusions detailed in the article.

over time it will switch MP, now whether it'll do that during the task sequence I don't know, you want to save time so.. my point with the variable, is why not set the variable after the reboot to the CMG MP, have you tried that ?

you should be able to see from the client based logs which MP it's currently attached to and when it switches...

interesting problem, are you setting this variable to true as a matter of interest ? SMSTSDisableStatusRetry In disconnected scenarios, the task sequence engine repeatedly tries to send status messages to the management point. This behavior in this scenario causes delays in task sequence processing. Set this variable to true and the task sequence engine doesn't attempt to send status messages after the first message fails to send. This first attempt includes multiple retries. When the task sequence restarts, the value of this variable persists. However, the task sequence tries sending an initial status message. This first attempt includes multiple retries. If successful, the task sequence continues sending status regardless of the value of this variable. If status fails to send, the task sequence uses the value of this variable. and have you tried setting this variable after the reboot ? SMSTSMP Use this variable to specify the URL or IP address of the Configuration Manager management point. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/osd/understand/task-sequence-variables

recovery partitions are needed by the OS to recover the os in case of boot failure, you do need them, chances are your disk 0 is the system, boot disk and disk 1 is data or something else you need to make disk 1 your system disk and then you'll be able to remove the partitions on disk 0.... like so... diskpart sel disk 0 clean exit then recreate whatever partition you want on it in

are you absolutely sure you've configured it as we've explained ? to find out if the firewall is causing you issues, as a test, temporarily disable it, try adding the CMG connection point role again, any difference ? don't forget to re-enable the firewall after the test. If there's no change, then it's not your firewall or blocked ports but more than likely a mis-configuration or certifcate issue

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in the example given the task sequence is deployed as Available, meaning yes, a user must launch it to see the message, if you deployed it as Required (be careful !) then no user involvement would be needed in software center and it would just run...

remote sql is not recommended, but if you are using it, see here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/plan-design/network/pki-certificate-requirements Site system servers that run Microsoft SQL Server This certificate is used for server-to-server authentication. Certificate requirements: Certificate purpose: Server authentication Microsoft certificate template: Web Server The Enhanced Key Usage value must contain Server Authentication (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1) The Subject Name must contain the intranet fully qualified domain name (FQDN) Maximum supported key length is 2,048 bits. This certificate must be in the Personal store in the Computer certificate store. Configuration Manager automatically copies it to the Trusted People Store for servers in the Configuration Manager hierarchy that might have to establish trust with the server.

the only way I've found is to script around it on the client and get that script onto your autopilot images somehow..., or get your proxy guys to add a transparent proxy for it, or use Wi-fi connections that bypass the proxy, there probably are some other abilities but for now that's what we have

update: there's a hotfix released and i've blogged about how you can verify if you have the issue and explained what the hotfix does... https://www.niallbrady.com/2021/07/28/hotfix-available-for-2103-bitlocker-policy-storm/

the script is downloadable still (scroll up this page for the link...), you just need to be a logged on member to download it, so please try again

you mentioned subnets, and that's not advisable, have a read of Jason's old blog post here to get some ideas https://home.memftw.com/ip-subnet-boundaries-are-evil/