TL;DR; – When reinstalling Windows on a Surface Pro 6 and it fails, make sure that you “temporarely” disable the ” Enable boot configuration lock” option and try again. At one of my customers we are using MDT to install Surface Pro 6 devices in order to make sure that the latest version of Windows…
Ask yourself if you still really need ADFS
In Q1 2017 Microsoft released the Pass Through Authentication (PTA) functionality as part of Azure AD connect. With the release of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Pass-through Authentication allowed for your users to sign in to both on-premises and cloud-based applications using the same passwords without the need to implement a Active Directory Federation Services…
Conditional Access demystified, part 8: Resources and further references
Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet This article is the last part of a series, for which the following articles are available: Conditional Access demystified, part 1: IntroductionConditional Access demystified, part 2: What is Conditional Access?Conditional Access demystified, part 3: How does…
Conditional Access demystified, part 7: Modifying Conditional Access to suit your special needs
Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet This article is part 7 of a series, for which the following articles are available: Conditional Access demystified, part 1: IntroductionConditional Access demystified, part 2: What is Conditional Access?Conditional Access demystified, part 3: How does Conditional…
Conditional Access demystified, part 6: Troubleshooting Conditional Access
Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet This article is part 6 of a series, for which the following articles are available: Conditional Access demystified, part 1: IntroductionConditional Access demystified, part 2: What is Conditional Access?Conditional Access demystified, part 3: How does Conditional…
Conditional Access demystified, part 5: Implementing Conditional Access
Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet This article is part 5 of a series, for which the following articles are available: Conditional Access demystified, part 1: IntroductionConditional Access demystified, part 2: What is Conditional Access?Conditional Access demystified, part 3: How does Conditional…
Conditional Access demystified, part 4: Designing a Conditional Access strategy
Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet This article is part 4 of a series, for which the following articles are available: Conditional Access demystified, part 1: IntroductionConditional Access demystified, part 2: What is Conditional Access?Conditional Access demystified, part 3: How does Conditional…
Conditional Access demystified, part 3: How does Conditional Access work?
Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet This article is part 3 of a series, for which the following articles are available: Conditional Access demystified, part 1: IntroductionConditional Access demystified, part 2: What is Conditional Access?Conditional Access demystified, part 4: Designing a Conditional…
Conditional Access demystified, part 2: What is Conditional Access?
Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet This article is part 2 of a series, for which the following articles are available: Conditional Access demystified, part 1: IntroductionConditional Access demystified, part 3: How does Conditional Access work?Conditional Access demystified, part 4: Designing a…
Conditional Access demystified, part 1: Introduction
Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet In July 2016 Microsoft made Conditional Access generally available as a feature of Azure Active Directory (AzureAD). Since that time I had a love and hate relationship with this functionality of Azure AD. Mainly because it’s…
Course: 20533C – Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions–Study reference
While teaching the 20533C course to students I provide them with more information about the topics covered in the training. Perhaps they can help you as well while studying for your exam. Keep in mind that the overview is valid for the C version of the course. General Information: Github Repository for 20533 – https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/20533-ImplementingMicrosoftAzureInfrastructureSolutions…
The new Self Service Portal for System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager and my experiences installing and using it so far – UPDATED
Update (December 11th 2015): Today Microsoft released a hotfix for the Self Service Portal, the hotfix (KB3124091) can be downloaded from Microsoft Download here. The corresponding KB article at time of writing isn’t available yet. I did an installation in my lab environment though and the most annoying issues are solved Please read the full…
Distributing content to Distribution points and Distribution point groups in ConfigMgr 2012
With the release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Microsoft introduced the distribution point groups functionality. Distribution point groups provide a logical grouping of distribution points and collections for content distribution as described in the following Technet Article: Configuring Content Management in Configuration Manager, Create and Configure Distribution Point Groups A Distribution Point can be…
Installing the Service Manager Self Service Portal (SSP) on Windows Server 2012 R2
When Microsoft released System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager in October 2013, I was quite suprised that the server the webparts for the Self Service Portal only were supported on SharePoint 2010. At that time, installing SharePoint 2010 was only supported on Windows Server 2008 R2. Luckely somewhere around May 2014 Microsoft released Service Pack…
SCSM 2012: Failed to execute Submit Operation, event id 26319
At a customer of mine a issue with Incident Requests in System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager was reported. Some users reported that they received the error:”Failed to execute Submit operation. Fix the reported error before… – The user <domain>\<accountname> does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation. Full error in the console was: