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Office 365 Deployment Series with ConfigMgr: Post 1 – Intro & PreReqs
This post will go over the Deployment and Maintenance of Office 365 using Microsoft's Endpoint Manager, Configuration Manager (MEMCM / SCCM).
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 3 – Certificate Authority
This is a bonus, you can do everything you want in your lab without this feature, but guess what, if you're going to do anything that needs HTTPS, having your own Certificate Authority (CA) makes this so much slicker.
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 4 – ConfigMgr Server Pre-Reqs
This is the big one, this is our MEMCM server, so much is happening to setup this server it's going to take a few posts. This post is covering some basics, and the pre-reqs, we'll move into SQL & the actual CM Install in up coming posts.
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 5 – Configuration Settings (AD / GPO)
Along the way when you setup your lab, you'll need to create accounts, groups, gpos, and other things to make life easier. While you want to keep it fairly clean and lean, if you plan to keep this lab around awhile, you'll want a few of these setup:
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 6 – ConfigMgr Source Share
This short post will explain how I've setup the Source Share on the Server. The Source Share is were all content sources for Apps / Packages / Updates / Operating Systems / Drivers, etc will go. It is not the content in the DP, but it's the content that supplies the DP
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 7 – Installing SQL for ConfigMgr
So far, we've got our Gateway, DC and started to setup our ConfigMgr Lab Server, in this installment, I'll be going over the SQL install for CM.
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 8 – ConfigMgr Install
We've been building up to this one, all the ground work has been laid. Let install ConfigMgr.
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 9 – ConfigMgr Settings Setup
This post will go over all the things we need to do now that we have a server
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 10 – ConfigMgr Collections and App Deployments
So now we have a functional ConfigMgr Server, lets setup some Collections and Create a few Apps
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 11 – Operating System Deployment
In this post, we're going to confirm OSD, and make sure we have what we need for basic OSD. This post will NOT cover the fancy stuff, but just the basics of getting OSD working.
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 12 – SQL Reporting Services (SSRS)
So you've got your CM Server and some clients, now you want to surface that data via reporting. [MS Docs] Sure Power BI is cool, but who has money for that, SSRS is included and there are some pretty nifty free reports in the community. In this post, we're going to be installing SSRS 2019, along with getting it configured then installing the Reporting Service Role in ConfigMgr.
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 13 – Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) – Certs PreReq
Learn about the Required Certificates needed for a CMG and how to set them up, including Client Authentication Certs, Web Cert for CMG device and Root CA Cert
The Two Sides of BitLocker – Compliance and Key Storage
Our BitLocker Dashboard, built into Microsoft SCCM, displays the compliance of devices' targeted BitLocker Policies from MBAM or CM BLM. You can also ensure keys are stored correctly in AD, MBAM, or CM BLM. Pair our BitLocker Compliance Dashboard with the BitLocker Status tool to easily remediate non-compliant devices.
The Aftermath: Ensure Post-Deployment Health of ReLAPS in Your Environment
Our ReLAPS Dashboard is built right into Microsoft SCCM to help you maintain the health of LAPS in your Environment. Do this by seeing which devices may have LAPS health issues through the Client Install status, as well as whether or not the password is updating and storing correctly. Then, use the ReLAPS Dashboard in tandem with Remote Software Center to install the missing client.
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Dashboard Series: Know Your Devices to Manage, Update, and Secure Them Effectively
With our Hardware & Firmware Dashboard, built into Microsoft SCCM, you can streamline those processes. You can also make Windows 10 feature updates easier by getting the big picture on hardware and firmware pre-requisites. Finally, view the firmware status and versioning to assist with necessary firmware updates, which are often pre-requisites to Virtualization-based Security components.
Software Update Compliance with Precision Filtering
The Three Rs . . . Report, Remediate, and Repeat. The Software Update Deployment Status (SUDS) Dashboard, which is built into Microsoft SCCM, does just that.
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Manage What You Have and Cleanup What You Don’t Using Active Directory Dashboard
Our Active Directory Dashboard, built into Microsoft SCCM, can identify and remove, disable, and isolate stale devices that no longer exist. It can also ensure all of your existing AD devices are being properly managed by Configuration Manager.
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 14 – Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) – Azure Subscription
What to do within Azure Portal to get things ready for a CMG. This was the biggest thing that tripped me up, mostly because I was using an account that didn't work properly. So just a note, if you don't log into your Azure Portal Directory with the Same "domain name" as the one you're managing, you'll run into issues.
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 15 – Azure Services Connection
In the previous posts we've created the Certificates required for CMG and looked at Azure to confirm we have things in place. We also confirmed we have the rights setup in Azure that are needed. Let's start the process in the CM Console.
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Building a ConfigMgr Lab from Scratch: Step 16 – Setting up CMG in the Console
We're four posts into our CMG Sub Series here, and we're finally getting to the CMG setup, we're going to go through the CMG Setup in the Console.