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Problem: If you see the following error in your IIS Logs (C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1), it’s possible that the CRL of your Certificate Authority isn’t reachable or valid anymore: GET /SMS_MP/.sms_aut MPLIST 443 - SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER - 403 13 2148081683 5701 18 Solution: Export a certificate from your personal certificate store, for example, an SCCM Client Certificate to your C: drive. Open a command prompt with elevated rights and type: ...

Yesterday (Saturday 20-03-2016) I passed the Azure 70-533 (Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions) exam. This was the second time that I did the exam and I passed with 747 points. So that’s a close call. Here are some tips for passing the exam: Practice every exam objective in your (Azure) lab. This is very important because you will get some questions in the exam where you need to tell step by step which step you took to install or configure a service. If you don’t have a subscription, you could sign up for the free one-month trial. Do the online proctored exam. I absolutely recommend this new way of doing exams. During workdays, It’s annoying to leave a project for a couple of hours to do an exam. Pro’s: - Study from home, in your trusted environment. No travel time needed and it took away some stress during the exam. ...

If you have an MSDN or Visual Studio subscription, you’ll automatically get Azure credits. Because I need to test System Center - Configuration Manager/Virtual Machine Manager/Operations Manager for my work, I have an Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN subscription. That gives me $150 credit on Azure automatically and makes it very easy to create a (big) home lab for dev/test or study purposes. You can do a lot with 150 euro in Azure, if you turn your virtual machines off when you don’t use them. I have a PowerShell script that runs at the end of the day to shutdown all my running virtual machines. ...

Really good information about the new Azure exam changes.

With TPM 1.2, Microsoft was able to clear the TPM during the SCCM Task Sequence without asking for permission to clear the TPM. With TPM 2.0, SCCM is unable to clear and activate the TPM chip during the deployment. The first time you boot your computer, you need to provide a BitLocker Recovery Key, or the tpm.msc console will tell you that the TPM is ready for use, with reduced functionality. I found a script online that I’ve added to my GitHub to clear the TPM 2.0 chip during the deployment. ...

A very helpful course from Christopher Chapman and Yuri Diogenes. Must see if you want to learn more about Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) and best of all: it’s a free course from the Microsoft Virtual Academy! Enterprise Mobility Suite: Beyond “Bring Your Own Device”

When you enable Device Guard or Credential Guard with Hyper-V on your system, your screen will blink every X seconds. This is a really annoying bug and has been fixed by Intel. Solution: Upgrade your Intel(R) HD Graphics driver to version 20.19.15.4352.

Because I wanted to configure Device Guard with Windows 10, I need the Hyper-V Hypervisor to be enabled on Windows 10. I tried to do this with DISM and an answer file, but it’s not possible to enable Hyper-V during the Task Sequence Deployment because Hyper-V requires a couple of reboots. Solution Create a new “Set Task Sequence Variable” task in your Task Sequence. This will run the PowerShell command after the Task Sequence ends. I’ve set this task before enabling the Driver Package, but it should be possible to place this task anywhere you like. ...

This video, presented by Mark Russinovich and Matt McSpirit, gives you a great overview about the design and architecture of containers. Mark will show you how to create and use the containers. Don’t forget to subscribe to the Microsoft Mechanics YouTube Channel.