Introduction Microsoft have released the latest Technical Preview release of System Center Configuration Manager namely System Center Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1801. There are two main versions (of Configuration Manager) available:     System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch)     System Center Configuration Manager (Technical Preview) System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) is designed for use in production, for managing a

Question, Is there a way to password protect a OS Task Sequence? Currently, the only time it is password protected is when initiated through PXE Boot.  What I’d like to be able to do is have my TS deployed and in Software Center, if you try to run it, it’ll ask for a password before starting the sequence. thanks.

Gents, Does somebody know if it's possible to use HTTPS with BranchCache in a SCCM context to retrieve content from neighbor workstations ? I think this can lead to unexpected issue if we previously configured BrancheCache through client settings ... Any idea ?

Hello, So I've been playing around with pushing manual software updates using SUGs.  As of now, I have them pushing to two lab environments of around 25 machines each.  Also a few test laptops I have in my office.  I'm having issues where in the deployment window its showing that a few machines are compliant with the latest updates.  If I take a look at the machine version, its still on 1709.16, not 1709.192.  Yet the machine is still reporting compliance with the software update deployment. 

I have an Automatic Deployment Rule setup to deploy EP updates and I followed the guide here when I created it. The size of it is 2.5GB though. Is there a way to cut the size down and/or not have it keep so many expired updates in it? It seems to keep updates for about 10 days before it clears them even though they are expired. How do I limit the number of days worth it keeps?

Hello. We have SCCM 1710 with SUP role configured. We have a lot of Windows 7 and 8.1 computers and we are migrating them to Windows 10 1709. Recently we noticed that sccm clients getting updates from sccm sup and Windows Update Internet locations both. We tried to configure to prevent updates form internet by GPO but clients still connecting internet. Is it posible to turn of internet updates for sccm clients complitely? Please help, because network team is going mad!

Hello, Is there a way to deploy Skype for Business Basic (O365 Click-to-Run) during an Operating System Deployment task sequence?  I'm able to deploy O365 Pro Plus with OSD.  But if I include Skype in the configuration xml file, the application will not install.  I broke Skype out into its own package with its own configuration xml and it still won't install during OSD. Can anyone provide some pointers on how to get this done, please?

Does anyone know the best way to do this?  Any advice would be much appreciated!