Month: February 2015

Key configurations steps for implementing the ability to deploy certificate profiles with ConfigMgr 2012

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This blog post is about key configuration steps, which are often forgotten, for implementing the ability to deploy certificate profiles with ConfigMgr 2012. By key configuration steps, I’m talking about the key configurations of every component used for creating the ability to deploy certificate profiles. That means Internet Information Services (IIS), Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES), the Certificate Registration Point site system role, the Configuration Manager Policy Module and even Web Application Proxy (WAP). To understand these steps, knowledge of certificates, IIS and ConfigMgr is required, because it’s not a step-by-step configuration guide. Good step-by-step information can be found in the More information section of this blog. Internet Information Services The first component I would like to mention is probably the most known component, which …

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Permissions required to use Retire/Wipe in ConfigMgr 2012

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The idea of this blog post is similar to my blog posts about the permissions required to use Edit Primary Users/Devices and my blog post about the permissions required to use Resultant Client Settings that I both did a couple of months ago. The difference this time is that the permissions, for using the Retire/Wipe option, are not that weird, but it might be good to know what the results will be of providing an administrative user with the required permissions. Also, I’ve seen some questions around the web lately regarding the possibilities to differentiate in the permissions for using the Retire/Wipe option. In the results of this blog post I’ll provide some information about the impact of these required permissions. Introduction In this blog …

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Uninstall the Microsoft Intune client via PowerShell

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This post will be a short and quick follow-up on my post earlier this week about uninstalling the Microsoft Intune client. The second method I mentioned in that post was about using the ProvisioningUtil.exe. Personally I think the actions mentioned in that method are too many manual actions, so I created a small PowerShell script with two functions to do exactly the same. In this post I’ll go through the two functions, and how they come together, in three steps. >> The complete script is available via download here on the TechNet Galleries! << Step 1: Get the ServiceId The first step is that I need to get the service ID for the uninstall command line. The following function goes through the registry path that …

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Uninstall the Microsoft Intune client

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This blog post will be relatively short, but will address a common “issue” with the Microsoft Intune client and that’s the uninstall of the client. I know it’s been addressed already in a couple of blogs, but that seems to be all outdated information. Sometimes even an old batch file with all “hard-coded” MSI GUIDs is mentioned, well that’s definitely outdated by now. In my opinion there are only two real methods to uninstall the Microsoft Intune client. The first one is via the Microsoft Intune administration console and the second one is via the ProvisioningUtil.exe on the client machine. In this blog post I’ll go through both methods. Method 1 – Microsoft Intune administration console The first method is, by far, the easiest. This …

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