Tips & Tricks
How to Create a VM for Android 4.4 R5
Over four blog posts, I will show you how to create an Android virtual machine (VM) and provide you with some helpful tips. You can use an Android VM to test Intune stand-alone, ConfigMgr hybrid or Mobile Application Management (MAM). Currently Android is the only one...
Reporting Services Point Verification Error
When you setup your SSRS reporting services point for ConfigMgr, you need to verify the database details. But what do you do when you get a Reporting Services Point Verification Error? This article will explain how to solve this problem . Microsoft Endpoint...
How to Import a RBA Security Role
Knowing how to import a RBA (Role-Based Administration) security role from one ConfigMgr site to another will allow you to use security roles from other sites. As a Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager MEMCM / MECM/ SCCM / CM / ComfigMgr admin, you will...
SQL Query Troubleshooting Tip
Before starting to write a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) report, you need to create a SQL query that will be used within the report. I always recommend that you create your query within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Microsoft Endpoint Configuration...
SQL Agent Service is Not Running
As a Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MEMCM / MECM / SCCM / ConfigMgr) Administrator, I wear many hats, Including SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Administrators. But what you you do when you get and error message about SQL Agent Service is...
Are You Watching the Clock?
There’s a new stopwatch feature in Windows 10 and I love it! I was doing some performance testing and I needed to know how long a particular task took. In Windows 7, I would have clicked the time icon in the system tray, recorded the time, performed my task, recorded...

How to Clean Up Custom Inventory
The other day, a friend, emailed me to ask, if I had an article that show you how to clean up Custom Inventory within SCCM. I said that I didn’t but I would try to write an article on How to Clean Up Custom Inventory over the weekend. As a Microsoft Configuration...
How to Clean Up Custom Inventory
The other day, a friend, emailed me to ask, if I had an article that show you how to clean up Custom Inventory within SCCM. I said that I didn’t but I would try to write an article on How to Clean Up Custom Inventory over the weekend. As a Microsoft Configuration...
How to query a Service status within a SQL query?
A user on Reddit ask How to query a Service status within a SQL query? They wanted to create a SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) Report with the results. They of course are using Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manage (MEMCM / MECM / SCCM) as the source for...
Slicer and Filter Conflict
Hi All! Today, I would like to talk to you about a slicer and filter conflict I came across while working on Enhansoft’s Power BI reports. Last year, I wrote a blog post called, What Are the Differences Between a Power BI Slicer and a Filter? In that blog post, I...