Block or Prevent user for installing any software without administration permission
Hi, I want to block user permission for installing any software without administrator permission. How do I implement this policy via Intune? Users have M365 E3 license and joined Azure AD I need an appropriate solution.
PKI certificate - Management Points IIS
Hi There I'm currently setting up PKI and was wondering in regards to the Configuration Manager IIS Certificate. I have two management points one on the Primary Server (e.g CMPrimary01.contoso.com) and another management point on another server (e.g. CMMP01). I do the following: On CMPrimary01 Expand Personal > Certificates Right Click Certificates > All Tasks > Request New Certificates Before you begin > Click Next Click "Active Directory Enrollment Policy" > Next Select CM DP Certificate and CM IIS Servers Certificate Under CM IIS Server Certificate click - More information required to enroll for this certificate. Click here to configure settings Under Alternative name, select Type = DNS, Value = CMPrimary01.contoso.com and CMPrimary01 and click add. Do I add in the DNS value as well CMMP01 and CMMP01.contoso.com> Do I need to add the certificates as well on CMMP01? THanks
Local administrator created during OSD doesn't get administrator access
This is an issue at the intersection between application deployment (via task sequence) and operating-system deployment. I have a setup.exe installer (actually, several of them, all part of the same collection - but the issue can be illustrated by talking about just one) which works fine when run as an ordinary local administrator, but fails with error 1619 when run as SYSTEM. As best I've been able to determine, the installer detects that the embedded MSI would be extracted to a location under the Windows folder, decides that's a security violation, and intentionally does things in a way that will result in this error. To work around this, I have created a task sequence (without a boot image) to run the installation as a temporary local administrator account. Specifically, this task sequence has the following series of actions: * A Run Command Line action to create a new local user account, by running 'net user TEMPORARYUSERNAME PASSWORD /add'. * A Run Command Line action to add that user to the local Administrators group, by running 'net localgroup Administrators TEMPORARYUSERNAME /add'. * A Run Command Line action to invoke the setup.exe from its package, with the "run this step from the following account" box checked, the username set to '%computername%\TEMPORARYUSERNAME', and the password entered accordingly. * A Run Command Line action to delete the temporary local user, by running 'net user TEMPORARYUSERNAME /delete'. If I create a deployment of this task sequence to a collection, and invoke it manually from the Software Center, it works; the program is installed as intended, and the user is created and cleaned up along the way. Event Viewer does log a warning (or perhaps an error) indicating having failed to load the user profile for this account, but that doesn't seem to do any harm, and I haven't yet found any way to avoid having it happen. If I then go to an OSD task sequence and add a Run Task Sequence action (after rebooting out of Windows PE and into Windows proper) which invokes the above task sequence, and then deploy that OSD task sequence to a computer, the embedded task sequence fails. More specifically, it gets as far as the action which invokes setup.exe, and then records that the installation failed with error 1603. As best I can determine based on analyzing the logs, the 1603 in this case is a simple "access denied" error, and means that the account which is being used to run the program does not have write access to the install location. However, because the user has been added to the local Administrators group, that user should have Administrator-level access to the entire system - including the install location. The fact that this install succeeds when invoked from Software Center seems to indicate that this user *does* in fact get such access in that environment - but in the post-WinPE OSD environment, it apparently does not. I have gone so far as to add a reboot step in between the step which adds the temporary account to the local Administrators group and the step which invokes setup.exe, in the hopes that the reboot would lead the system to recognize that the temporary account is a member of that group. However, this did not appear to produce any change in the behavior of the setup.exe step. My first question is: How can I get Windows to properly grant local Administrator access (and, as a consequence, write access to the install location) to this user no matter which environment the "inner" task sequence is run from? If there's no apparent way to do that, my second question is: How else can I get this install to run as a non-SYSTEM user with local administrator access? Running as the built-in administrator account itself is not really an option. We manage that account's password with LAPS, so while I know what that password is at Windows install time, as soon as we join the domain (which, for various reasons, will have happened by this point in the task sequence) there's a possibility that the password will have changed; as a result, I can't specify that password in the Run Command Line action.Shortcut icons to Homescreen
Hello everyone! I have the following problem: some iPads are registered in my company via Microsoft Endpoint Manager. They have access to our servers via the file manager. But to make it easy for the employees, I would like to create a shortcut directly on the main screen using Apple's Shortcuts app, which will take them directly to the desired file with one click and open it. That's not really a problem, but I can't display the individual shortcut on the screen. I ask for help! Very dear thanks Marius
How to allow powershell in managed device?
HI everyone, newbie admin here. I am in the process of learning out to use the EndPoint Manager and I have enrolled my first device, which will be my work laptop. It is running windows 11 enterprise and it is enrolled in tenant with an account licensed at an 0365 A3 level. Up until there, everything seems fine, but I stumbled into a problem. I can't run powershell cmdlets. It's a fine restriction to have on 99% of the systems I'll be administering, but I need to run it on mine for user creation, and general maintence, etc. I can run the powershell cmdlets if a login as another, unmanaged , user, so it's not an install problem. I have alllowed, through MMC the running of scripts, and through the endpoint managers the running of powershell scripts, but nothing happened. I know other policies are being applied and synced to the device, so I out of ideas. See the pictures below: Any suggestions?
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, Device Collection Queries
Hello all, Here is the question. I am wanting to limit the query for my machines in my Domain. I have a partially working query however I am failing miserably on the exclusions. Here is what I am doing and wanting to accomplish. I want to create a new query to include only Windows 10 OS, and on those same systems if they belong to an OU I do not want them included in the query. I am new to Endpoint so bear with me. Device Collections Created a new Device Collections Called Software Distribution (General Name) Create a Member ship rule to include Criteria Windows 10 OS platforms. (Works) Add to the same rule to try and Exclude devices that reside in certain AD OU's. (Does not work) What am I missing? select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion = "Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 10.0" and SMS_R_System.SystemOUName != "FOREST/DOMAIN/LOCATION/FIRST FLOOR/SERVER ROOM" This statement is "Is not equal to" and I have also tried "is not like" Thanks for looking Running latest ver of MECM on a Windows 2019 Server platform
