SCCM Office C2R update installation hangs on 50%

When updating Office365 C2R via SCCM and it is stuck on 50% downloading, you may have some configuration problems in your update configuration. The problem is that you have deployed Office365 Click 2 Run (C2R) and now you want to update it with SCCM. You downloaded the updates and deployed them to the computers via SCCM. But in Software center it will hang on 50% download and will not continue

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Installing manually WDS on SCCM Distribution Point without reboot

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DPM 2016 installation fails with error code 4387

When trying to install DPM 2016 with SQL 2016 make sure that you use the RTM version of SQL 2016 (build 13.0.1601.5). After installing DPM 2016, upgrade DPM to the latest System Center CU4. When you have done this you can upgrade SQL 2016 also to the latest version.

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IT/Dev Connections 2017 – Intro to Modern Management

So last week I visited the IT/Dev Connections 2017 at the Hilton hotel in San Francisco (after spending a week of vacation in CaliforniaJ). It was not my first time at the IT/Dev connections so I know how good this one is. There are several tracks with different subjects within the Microsoft portfolio at IT/Dev Connections. I attended this year only sessions from the Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) including the pre-conference workshop. This topic includes SCCM, Intune, Azure AD, Windows 10, Conditional Access and many more. But after attending IT/Dev Connections this year it was clear to me that Microsoft is now fully focused on “Modern Management”. What this means I will explain in this blog post.

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The 10 deadly sins of information security

What are the most made mistakes when we are talking about information security? If you have any more suggestion, please let us know!

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How to remove an Address Book Policy with Powershell for Office365/Exchange On-Line

Yesterday I was playing with address book policies in Exchange On-line. After a while I wanted to delete a Address Book Policy (ABP) which I created (in this case the ABP is called svg-abp). But when I tried to remove it with the Powershell command: “Remove-AddressBookPolicy -Identity svg-abp” I was getting the error stated that there where still users connected to the ABP. How can you resolve this?

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Whats new in SCCM 1606

At the IT/Dev Connections 2016 I visited a session about the 10 most important new features in System Center Configuration Manager 1606. This session was presented by Peter Daalmans and Mirko Colemberg. One of the new features is The Windows 10 servicing model, that I wrote about in my last blog.

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The new Windows 10 update service model

Last week I attended IT/Dev Connection in Las Vegas at the Aria hotel. It was a very interesting congress where the newest Microsoft technology is presented. The coming weeks I will write some blog posts about some of the major things that were presented in Vegas, Mainly focused on Windows 10, SCCM, InTune and MDT.

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Information Security in the Cloud Age

With the rapid expansion and development of cloud computing, and the internet of things Many CISO is struggling to keep pace. The business potential, cost savings and the potential innovation continue to surge cloud development in a rapid pace. According to Gartner, worldwide public cloud adoption is set to grow by 16.5 percent in 2016 to $204 billion, up from $175 billion in 2015. Security concerns continue to represent the single greatest barrier to cloud adoption.

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