Retire or wipe mobile devices via PowerShell

This blog post will be about a new tool, written in PowerShell, to retire and/ or wipe a mobile device. Let’s start with the fact that I know that it’s possible to retire and/ or wipe a mobile device through the ConfigMgr console, but that didn’t stop me from creating this tool. The reason for that is related to how mobile devices are managed and who is usually responsible. In most cases the service desk is responsible for helping end-users with their mobile devices. Now what if a company rather not provides the ConfigMgr console to the service desk, or a company wants to prevent the service desk from wiping a mobile device? That’s were this tool comes in place. >> Available via download here …

Read more

Permissions required to use Retire/Wipe in ConfigMgr 2012

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 …

Read more