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Mastering SSRS Reporting Tips and Tricks for Effective Reporting

by | 15 May 2024 | How-To, Reporting, SQL Server Reporting Services | 0 Comments

Last week, I created a blog on Power BI Tips and Tricks. So, I thought I should do a similar one for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). This article is where we delve deep into the world of SSRS Reporting Tips and Tricks. These topics will elevate your reporting...
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Power BI Tips and Tricks

by | 8 May 2024 | ConfigMgr, How-To, Intune, Power BI, Reporting | 0 Comments

The other day, I reviewed my ideas for MMS Flamingo sessions and considered dedicating a whole session to Power BI Tips and Tricks. During this process, I assessed my existing blogs and identified the need to update or create new ones. I noticed that my blogs are...
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Unleashing the Power of CMPivot: Finding Installed Software Made Easy

by | 1 May 2024 | ConfigMgr | 0 Comments

I’m cleaning up blogs that I have started but never finished like Simple Steps to Configure BitLocker on Your Server. Anyways, I was creating a different blog about collections and I started to talk about CMPivot based collections. To finish the other blog, I needed...
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Simple Steps to Configure BitLocker on Your Server

by | 24 April 2024 | odds and ends | 0 Comments

I was working on an article about BitLocker Portal page and one of the prerequisite steps is to enable BitLocker on the server. Anyways I thought it would be a good time to add a video to Where is BitLocker on Windows Server? But after looking at I know that I didn’t...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Using Graph Explorer for Intune Data Validation

by | 17 April 2024 | odds and ends | 0 Comments

These days I’m working on a lot with Intune and finding way to expose more data from it. One of the simple ways to review the details stored within Intune, before you create a report is to use Graph Explorer. They use Graph Explorer before writing your reports? The...
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Navigating Intune Reporting with Power BI Conditional Formatting

by | 3 April 2024 | Power BI, Reporting | 0 Comments

So, I was talking to a friend that was using the ConfigMgr Client Health Reports and they provided some feedback. That feedback was “It would be great if you could highlight which Devices are in which state”. I said that you can user Power BI Conditional Formatting...
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Navigating Intune Reporting: Elevate Your Reporting Skills with Power BI

by | 27 March 2024 | Intune, Power BI, Reporting | 0 Comments

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, effective reporting is crucial for organizations to make informed decisions and optimize their operations. For IT professionals and administrators working with Microsoft Intune, mastering the art of reporting is essential...
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How to create an Entra ID Application – Step by step guide

by | 21 March 2024 | Azure | 0 Comments

I am preparing a few sessions for Midwest Management Summit at the Mall of America (MMSMOA) this May. While doing so, I need to create an Entra ID Application to access Intune data via Microsoft Graph. It is one of those things that I don’t do often, so I always look...
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How to Determine your Microsoft Entra ID Tenant ID?

by | 15 March 2024 | Azure | 0 Comments

This is one of those things that you need every once and a while but never seems to be at hand when you need it. You gloss over Microsoft Entra id tenant id every time you see it until you actually need it, then you can “never” find it. I always love when I search for...
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ConfigMgr Health Services in the Cloud: A Comprehensive Setup Tutorial

by | 28 February 2024 | odds and ends | 0 Comments

I had this unbelievable idea of moving ConfigMgr Health Services in the Cloud instead of having it on-prem. This is just phase one of a long list of things I’m trying to work out with the ConfigMgr Health script. Now when I say in the cloud, I don’t mean Azure or AWS....
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