Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet This article is part 2 of a series, for which the following articles are available: Conditional Access demystified, part 1: IntroductionConditional Access demystified, part 3: How does Conditional Access work?Conditional Access demystified, part 4: Designing a…
Author: Kenneth
Microsoft MVP Setup & Deployment
System Center Consultant
Conditional Access demystified, part 1: Introduction
Now available: May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet In July 2016 Microsoft made Conditional Access generally available as a feature of Azure Active Directory (AzureAD). Since that time I had a love and hate relationship with this functionality of Azure AD. Mainly because it’s…
Course: 20533C – Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions–Study reference
While teaching the 20533C course to students I provide them with more information about the topics covered in the training. Perhaps they can help you as well while studying for your exam. Keep in mind that the overview is valid for the C version of the course. General Information: Github Repository for 20533 – https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/20533-ImplementingMicrosoftAzureInfrastructureSolutions…
The new Self Service Portal for System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager and my experiences installing and using it so far – UPDATED
Update (December 11th 2015): Today Microsoft released a hotfix for the Self Service Portal, the hotfix (KB3124091) can be downloaded from Microsoft Download here. The corresponding KB article at time of writing isn’t available yet. I did an installation in my lab environment though and the most annoying issues are solved Please read the full…
Distributing content to Distribution points and Distribution point groups in ConfigMgr 2012
With the release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Microsoft introduced the distribution point groups functionality. Distribution point groups provide a logical grouping of distribution points and collections for content distribution as described in the following Technet Article: Configuring Content Management in Configuration Manager, Create and Configure Distribution Point Groups A Distribution Point can be…
Installing the Service Manager Self Service Portal (SSP) on Windows Server 2012 R2
When Microsoft released System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager in October 2013, I was quite suprised that the server the webparts for the Self Service Portal only were supported on SharePoint 2010. At that time, installing SharePoint 2010 was only supported on Windows Server 2008 R2. Luckely somewhere around May 2014 Microsoft released Service Pack…
SCSM 2012: Failed to execute Submit Operation, event id 26319
At a customer of mine a issue with Incident Requests in System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager was reported. Some users reported that they received the error:”Failed to execute Submit operation. Fix the reported error before… – The user <domain>\<accountname> does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation. Full error in the console was:
Next WMUG NL Webinar announced with Johan Arwidmark
Last week we announced our next Windows Management User Group Netherlands Webinar. On May the 6th we have invited Enterprise Client Management MVPs Johan Arwidmark to talk with us about OSD – MDT 2013 & ConfigMgr 2012 R2 highlights. Johan Arwidmark is the Chief Technical Architect with Knowledge Factory. He is a consultant, author and…
Next WMUG NL meeting announced with Kent Agerlund and Brian Mason
Last week we announced our next Windows Management User Group Netherlands meeting. On May the 22nd we have invited Enterprise Client Management MVPs Kent Agerlund and Brian Mason to talk with us about Patch Management. Kent is joining us from Denmark to talk with us about third party software updates with System Center 2012 R2…
Implementing RBAC in System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
This blogpost will detail my experiences and insights gained from implementing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in a System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager environment. Overview: After installing Service Manager a couple of so called User Roles are created: Report User End User Read-Only Operator Activity Implementer Change Initiator Incident Resolver Problem Analyst Change Manager…
WMUG NL Meeting on subject Monitoring on the 12th of February
On Wednesday evening the 12th of February the Windows Management User Group Netherlands is organizing a new event. This time the subject throughout the evening will be monitoring, and for this we have found three excellent and knowledgeable speakers on the monitoring subject. We start with Stefan Stranger, who will talk about using PowerShell with…
Event: Dutch VMware User Group conference on March 6th
On the 6th of March, the Dutch VMware User Group, which is a subsidairy of the global VMware User Group organizes a conference in the Netherlands. The conference which starts at 8:30 and end at 17:30 will be held in Conferenciecentrum 1931, in Den Bosch. The keynote of the event will be hosted by Brian…
Configuring Group Policies for your ConfigMgr Servers
Disclaimer: Please test and validate this in your test environment, don’t take the information i provide for granted. This article describes a method to determine correct settings and doesn’t supply the answer to your specific environment ! When you are installing System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) in environments where group policies are used to control…
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager prerequisite overview on Windows Server 2012 R2
Before you can start installing System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager in your environment you have to install the servers with an OS and configure its roles and features. While the Site System Installation Wizard now provides the option to configure some of the roles and features when not installed, I prefer to setup my…