David O'Brien

David O'Brien

Former MVP for Microsoft Azure. Interested in all things cloud security.

Recent Posts

ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU 1 available - walkthrough

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Microsoft just released the Cumulative Update 1 for Configuration Manager 2012 R2. Here you will find what they fixed in this CU1 release (it’s a lot!): htt...

MVP ComCamp 2014

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The next week will be full of interesting online and in-person community events all over the Australia / Asia / Pacific region with loads of interesting sess...

Orchestrator – Delete Collection Rule activity

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While writing my last article I discovered a little issue with one of the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager activities you’ll get by importing th...

How to remove machines from ConfigMgr Collection

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A customer of mine had a little workflow / network / process related problem regarding staging of machines. What they wanted to achieve was just to remove t...

Enable Deduplication with Powershell for ConfigMgr exclusions

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Microsoft just released the following blog post on the support of Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2012 R2 in combination with System Center 2012 R2 Conf...

I am happy to announce

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In my December’s article “End of year 2013” I teased you all by saying that my wife and I are going to move away from Germany, but I couldn’t tell you back t...

How to find the ConfigMgr SMS Provider Location

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In my role as a technical consultant I sometimes need to visit customer sites where there are already ConfigMgr environments in place and I need to quickly f...

Multiple copy of Applications during ConfigMgr Task Sequence

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[Update below 05.03.2014] SCCM Task Sequence issue in stand alone media I am currently working with a customer that has a strange issue during ConfigMgr st...

How to find ConfigMgr Collection membership of client via Powershell?

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During my session today at the ConfigMgr User Group in Zurich / CH I demoed a little Powershell function which will output all the Collection Names a device ...

Reports not working after upgrade to ConfigMgr 2012 R2

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At today’s ConfigMgr User Group meeting Wally Mead (Microsoft Product Group) mentioned something to check after upgrading from ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 to R2. Bes...