Entries by David Maiolo

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SCCM Troubleshooting

Overview This article is meant to provide you an overview of common troubleshooting tasks centered around client health and upcoming SCCM components. I created several custom tools and scripts to aid in the detection and remediation of several SCCM related troubleshooting tasks. Snippets of those scripts are provided throughout. A Microsoft PFE assisted me in […]

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Active Directory: Troubleshooting & Overview

This tutorial provides an overview of Active Directory (AD), which is a collection of services used to manage identity and access for and to resources on a network. The tutorial describes various AD services, such as Domain Services, Lightweight Directory Services, Certificate Services, Federation Services, Rights Management Services, and Flexible Single-Master Operations (FSMO) Roles, including […]

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New Features in SCCM

What’s New in SCCM This guide is meant to summarize the latest features you can expect in the SCCM 1702, 1706 and 1710. Most of the information from these features was obtained by summarizing the information contained in Microsoft’s SCCM documentation. (What’s new in version 1710 of System Center Configuration Manager, What’s new in version […]

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Intune Management Tool

Overview I created this application, Microsoft Intune Management Tool, to allow you to easily View the Microsoft Graph return content behind the settings applied and configured within your Intune tenant. Additionally, it has the ability to Backup your entire tenant (as JSON content data), creating special database files of the settings and where they were […]

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Threaded Computer Details Aggregator

Overview I created this application, Threaded Computer Details, to allow you to have a single point of data aggregation for common SCCM, DHCP and Active Directory metrics on the computers in your environment, and wrap those metrics around a convenient program with search options. You can either search initially by computer name, or if User-Device […]

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SCCM: Magic Offline Imaging Jumpdrive

Overview This is a “Magic Offline Imaging Jumpdrive” I put together that can be used for OEM imaging or offline imaging where you still need to join PC’s to the domain but don’t have access to the network when the computer is being imaged. The idea is this “Magic Jumpdrive” would allow a trusted party […]

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SCCM: Spectre / Meltdown Detection

Overview Contained in this article are the tools to help you detect and remediate the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities. This remediation is accomplished via the following SCCM configuration items which I specifically developed for this purpose. Contained in these configuration items are several PowerShell scripts and return values for the configuration items, and may […]

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SCCM: Automate Deployment of Required Updates

Overview This process will allow you to automate deployment of required WSUS updates in your SCCM environment that were missed by your Software Update ADR. A built in SCCM SQL report can indicate which WSUS software updates are required, but not deployed in an environment. Utilizing my two other functions, HTML Email Report and SCCM […]