Technology Log

As many of you who might be running a SCCM/Intune hybrid scenario for MDM will have learned. There are a few to many certificates in use between NDES, Intune, Wifi Profiles, VPN profiles, and well anything else that may have a cert buried in it. We had an instance were the NDES wasn't handing out the certs for WiFi and VPN profiles. However it was handing out the base communication certificate so phones could sync correctly. This was one of those head scratchers on our park, but if you know where to look it makes sense. Problem is (at least in my opinion) there is a lack of useful documentation and the logging leaves a little to be desired. Therefore, I'm going to give a bit about our journey and hopefully help some of you folks out if you run into something similar. When we were notified of this issue, we started to look at the usual logs, you know CRP.log NDESPlugin.log those types of things. First thing you will notice is that the CRP.log will show the same message ove

Greetings fellow admins! Here is another good one that I spent a few hours digging into WMI and SMSProv verbose logging. Plus some random WMI class calls. Hopefully this will help you fill in somethings missing from the SDK/MSDN documentation. $wmidate = new-object -com Wbemscripting.swbemdatetime $date = get-date -format g $wmidate . SetVarDate( $date , $true ) [ void ] ( $thisInstance = ( [ wmiclass ] " \\localhost\root\sms\site_COP:SMS_ActionAccountResult " ) . createinstance() ) [ void ] ( $thisInstance . ActionID = 1 ) [ void ] ( $thisInstance . StartTime = $wmidate . value) [ void ] ( $thisInstance . Put()) $date = get-date -format g $wmidate . SetVarDate( $date , $true ) [ void ] ( $thisInstance = ( [ wmiclass ] " \\localhost\root\sms\site_COP:SMS_ActionAccountResult " ) . createinstance() ) [ void ] ( $thisInstance . ActionID = 2 ) [ void ] ( $thisInstance . ActionData = 'syncType,fullSyn

Well came across another interesting one today. We had an OSD package that wasn't working in run from dp. Ended up being an issue very similar to the issue that occurs if you have a pull dp under a secondary site. Based on some talks with support on the other issue, here is a handy query to identify the issue. You can also give this query and the results to CSS to help them resolve your issue faster. -- Broken Packages select cdpm.SiteCode, ContentID,ServerName,AccessType,URL,URLSubPath,URLProtocol,vpkg.Name from ContentDPMap as cdpm join v_Package as vpkg on vpkg.PackageID = cdpm.ContentID where cdpm.AccessType = 2 --UNCProtocol and cdpm.URLSubPath = '\' --Packages with issues only have a '\' and vpkg.PkgFlags = (vpkg.PkgFlags | 0x80) --Limit to only show packages with the 'Copy To Package Share' flag set Now for the !!!!!!DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME (Production)!!!!!! section. I recommend that you contact CSS but to help point them in the right

Greetings fellow travels. It has been a while since I have posted anything so I thought I would add a small tidbit to answer that question of "How do I send a freak'n email?" of course this version uses your MSFT Outlook client. It is very difficult, so difficult I went "That's It" and was in shock that is was actually that simple. The other caveat is that this sends the email in HTML format so you can add all your favorite HTML tags. This is a really simple version and I didn't get very deep but there is lots of things you can actually do with the email. There are several good pages on the web that go into greater detail and get more in depth (and complex). But for my needs this is more than enough. Enjoy! $Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application $Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0) $Mail.To = $Address If (!([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($CCAddress))) {     $Mail.CC = $CCAddress } $Mail.Subject = $Subject $Mail.HTMLBody = $HtmlBo