Tips & Tricks
Where is My Apple Push Certificate?
While setting up an Intune subscription, I noticed that when I uploaded my ConfigMgr 2012 Vendor-Signed Certificate Signing Request file, I wasn’t able to download my certificate from the Apple Push Certificates Portal page. I received no error message or...
Fun with AVMA
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?
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
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
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
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...
Calculating ConfigMgr Custom Inventory Database Size
The other day, a good friend of mine reached out and asked if I had an article on Calculating ConfigMgr Custom Inventory Database Size. I told him that I didn’t have an article on the subject. He told he that it would be a good topic, so here is this article. As a...
Calculating ConfigMgr Custom Inventory Database Size
The other day, a good friend of mine reached out and asked if I had an article on Calculating ConfigMgr Custom Inventory Database Size. I told him that I didn’t have an article on the subject. He told he that it would be a good topic, so here is this article. As a...
Accessing ConfigMgr Reports – Browser or Console
A long time ago, I learned while troubleshooting SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. That your first step is always to open the report in a browser. Why? If it doesn’t work there, then there is no point in trying to access it via the console. Why because the...
SSRS and Power BI Report Standards
In order to ensure that all of the reports found in Enhansoft Reporting and Warranty Information Reporting have the same look and feel, we created a Power BI and SSRS report standards guide. Why would you want to do the same? The answer is simple: consistency. There...