Adding Azure regions with PowerShell

In this post, I will show you how to list all Azure regions using PowerShell. You can also use Azure Cloud Shell to get a list of all Azure regions along with physical location and geography group details. Each Azure geography contains one or more regions and meets specific data residency and compliance requirements. From … Read more

List all Azure Regions using PowerShell

In this post, I will show you how to list all Azure regions using PowerShell. You can also use Azure Cloud Shell to get a list of all Azure regions along with physical location and geography group details. Each Azure geography contains one or more regions and meets specific data residency and compliance requirements. From … Read more

How to Uninstall Operations Manager SCOM

How to Repair Operations Manager Installation

In this post I will cover the steps to uninstall Operations Manager. You may also refer it as steps to uninstall SCOM. If you are planning to remove operations manager from your setup, you must first consider few things. Recently I published a post on installing SCOM 1801. The same day I got an email via … Read more

New SCOM 2022 Install Guide | Operations Manager 2022

Repair SCOM Agents on Windows Computers_

This post is a step-by-step guide to installing SCOM 2022. You can use this guide to install Operations Manager 2022 on your Windows server. Operations Manager is still a part of the System Center suite. Most organizations use SCOM to monitor health, capacity, and usage across applications, workloads, and infrastructure. This article will cover steps … Read more

How to Renew Secret keys in SCCM console

How to Renew Secret keys in SCCM console

While working in my SCCM lab recently, I realised the secret key for one of my Entra App registrations was expired. I received a console notification with the following message: “One or more Entra app secrets used by Cloud Services have expired. Renew to avoid service disruptions.” Configuration Manager allows you to renew the secret … Read more

SCCM Upgrade is blocked on Windows Server 2012/2012 R2

CCM Upgrade is blocked on Windows Server

Starting with version 2403, the SCCM upgrade is blocked in the hierarchy that is running site roles on Windows Server 2012/2012 R2. In simple words, Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 operating systems won’t be supported for installing SCCM roles anymore. Recently, Microsoft released Configuration Manager current branch update 2403. One of the prerequisites for … Read more

SCCM Technical Preview 2405 New Features

Configuration Manager Technical Preview 2405 New Features

Microsoft has released the latest Technical Preview 2405 for Configuration Manager. It comes with new features, such as BitLocker support in ARM devices, SQL Extended Protection for Authentication, performance enhancement of policy processing and collection evaluation, and many other enhancements. This year’s second Technical Preview release (TP) is version 2405. The previous technical preview version … Read more

Hotfix KB28290310 for SCCM 2403 – Fix for CMG VMSS

KB28290310

A new out-of-band hotfix KB28290310 is released for SCCM 2403 by Microsoft to update the operating system version of cloud management gateway (CMG) virtual machine scale set images. After the KB28290310 hotfix installation is complete, the new OS build value will be updated to 20348.2402. This prevents the message “Virtual machines or virtual machine scale … Read more

Windows 365 Cloud PC Updates and New Features

How to Rename Windows 365 Cloud PC

This article lists all the Windows 365 Cloud PC updates, new features, included with every service release of Windows 365 Enterprise. The Cloud PC updates are released every month, and it’s important to be aware of these features for every enterprise. The YYMM format is used for Windows 365 releases and represents the service release … Read more

Enable Watermarking for Windows 365 Cloud PCs

In this article, we will show you how to enable watermarking for Windows 365 Cloud PCs. Using an Intune configuration profile, you can now apply QR watermarks to cloud PCs and even Azure virtual desktops. Watermarking Cloud PCs helps prevent sensitive information from being captured on client endpoints. When you enable watermarking, QR code watermarks … Read more