As of 8/8/2024 This list of Service Principals can be helpful when troubleshooting Conditional Access issues. The AppID is what is logged in the AAD Operational Event Log. Use this list to look up the AppID to see which Service Principal is being blocked by CA/MFA. [ { "id": "0024c83e-3871-4f1c-8306-723d2041c378", "appId": "14452459-6fa6-4ec0-bc50-1528a1a06bf0", "appDisplayName": "Intune CMDeviceService"…
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A customer recently asked how they could prevent their users from using the Run command. The run command is invoked by hitting Win+R, or going to Start - Windows System - Run (there are other ways, but these are the primary ones). The easy way to solve this is via Group Policy. In the GPO…
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Samsung has released a software upgrade EF07 for the SCH-LC11, which is recommended to be installed. I used to have CONSTANT disconnecting issues with my SCH-LC11, but those issues appear to have been resolved. Will know for sure after some more time with the update, but it's working well so far. PPTP and L2TP VPN…
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If you haven't been to the Building Windows 8 Blog yet, I highly recommend bookmarking it as the Windows 8 team has been updating it frequently. Today's post comes from Alex Simons and takes a brief look at the history of Windows Explorer (going back to MS-DOS Executive in Windows 1.0) and a very interesting…
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We have posted the ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2 VHD. You can download the files here. With this release you can also test out the Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 Beta which integrates with ConfigMgr 2012. Take a look at the link at the bottom of this post for more information on how to get the FEP…
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In prior versions of ConfigMgr, you had the ability to install a secondary site in multiple ways. The method that I always chose to install a secondary was to copy the installation bits down to the server and install via setup.exe. The other method was using the ConfigMgr admin console which would copy the content…
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System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2012 primary site installation isn't that much different than in ConfigMgr 2007, however there are some differences. The aim for this post is to show you the basics of primary site installation and what to look for post installation. Prerequisites ConfigMgr 2012 has nearly the same prerequisites as ConfigMgr 2007,…
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It's been a long time coming, and I'm very excited for the release of Configuration Manager v.Next. Listed below are just some of the bullet points in this release. You can see the full announcement here. Today we are very excited to announce the release of Beta 1 for System Center Configuration Manager v.Next. System…
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We live in a society today that's "always on". People have mobile devices, laptops, desktops, HTPCs, etc. that are always connected to the internet and at the click of a button we can order an HDTV and have it shipped to our house within a few days. We never have to leave the house anymore…
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So recently the company I work for decided to rebuild a large SCCM (or ConfigMgr for those of you in MS land) primary site onto new hardware. To give you a brief glimpse into the site configuration, this site has ~20,000+ clients assigned to it and the server houses the management point, software update point,…
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