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Fun with AVMA

by Garth Jones | Aug 20, 2015 | How-To, Tips

Recently I ran into a situation where I had to spin up new VMs. The issue: How do you activate multiple VMs without running into licensing issues? The solution: Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA). Here I describe my fun with AVMA. Turns out that the host...

Where Are My IIS Logs?

by Garth Jones | Aug 12, 2015 | ConfigMgr, How-To, Tips

Recently I answered a forum post about troubleshooting hardware (HW) inventory from a client PC into the ConfigMgr database by pointing them to a blog post I wrote back in 2013. In that blog post under the heading, Phase 2 – MP Server, I say to locate your IIS logs on...

How to Deploy an Application with Different Deployment Types

by Garth Jones | Jun 25, 2015 | Android, ConfigMgr, How-To, Intune, Tips

As you may recall, I am starting to manage my collection of mobile devices by using Intune with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MEMCM / MECM / SCCM /ConfigMgr), and one of my tests involved deploying applications to these same devices. After creating an...

How to Add a Third Deployment Type (Windows 8.x) to an Existing Application

by Garth Jones | Jun 24, 2015 | ConfigMgr, How-To, Intune, Tips

I am starting to manage my collection of mobile devices by using Intune with ConfigMgr 2012 (CM12), and one of my tests involved deploying applications to these same devices. After creating an application with the first deployment type for Android OS, yesterday I...

Add a Second Deployment Type (iPhone) to an Existing App

by Garth Jones | Jun 23, 2015 | ConfigMgr, How-To, Intune, Tips

Continuing on from yesterday’s blog post where I told you how I started to manage my collection of mobile devices by using Intune with ConfigMgr 2012 (CM12), you may recall that one of my tests involved deploying applications to these same devices. Yesterday, I showed...

How to Use WMIC

by Garth Jones | Jun 17, 2015 | ConfigMgr, How-To, Tips

In yesterday’s Why WMIC is Useful!, I talked about using Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) to troubleshoot WMI issues. I need to user WMIC to troubleshoot a x86 problem on a x64 computer. You might think that Wbemtest would be the tool to use but...