Roger Zander

I often get asked how romawo.com does compete with Microsoft Intune... ROMAWO does perfectly work together with Intune, no need to choose one or the other... That's why I will list here the ROMAWO features that will extend every Intune environment. Dashboard ROMAWO

A common way to get cellular data is by using the command: netsh mbn show readyinfo * | findstr SIM``` If you can run a script in the SYSTEM context, you can use the "MDM Bridge WMI Provider" to get some deeper insights... (MDM Bridge WMI

In an international Environment, it can be a requirement that users can choose the Keyboard-Layout by themselves during OOBE, but there is no UI Option in the Autopilot Profile for this option... Autopilot ProfileWe want Users to select the "Language (Region)" by themselves, so

It's time to recap what happened with ruckzuck.tools in 2020... (as for 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015 ) RepositoryThe public RuckZuck repository includes currently 575 Software-Products. If we also count the different Versions, we have 5'509 Packages in the Repository. There where 2'680

Es ist soweit, nachdem ich Jahrelang (Open-Source) Tools veröffentlicht habe, möchte ich nun ein neues Projekt ankündigen: ... Arbeitsplatzverwaltung auf einem neuen Level... Aber nicht als Tool, sondern als Dienstleistung. was ROMAWO Ihnen ermöglicht: es aktualisiert installierte Software (mehr als 500 Produkte verfügbar) und das

If you want to automatically update RuckZuck Applications in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager: #Load the RZ4ConfigMgr Assembly [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom((Join-Path $(Split-Path $env:SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH) RZ4CM.exe)) | Out-Null $RZ = New-Object RuckZuck_Tool.PSRZ4ConfigMgr #detect SW Updates $RZ.Scan() #Show details of

The current Version of DeviceCommander is using .NETCore3.1. The "older" Branch, based on .NETCore2.1 will no longer get any feature updates. If you want to update your existing installation, just follow this guide: Disconnect If you have deployed your DevCDR

RuckZuck had its 5 years anniversary on 2nd December 2019... Time to summarize some figures (as for 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015 ) Summary RuckZuck.exe was downloaded 15'629 times in 2019 from https://github.com/rzander/ruckzuck. In 2018 it was 10'926, a light

Yes, we have a Lab... Most Customers are looking for a ConfigMgr Test-LAB, a playground for the SCCM Admins to implement and test new features and addons or to simulate a disaster recovery scenario... It's often the PoC Environment that will be renamed to

In my HomeAutomation project, I'm using NodeRed and ioBroker as an On-Premise Workflow engine. But for reporting, I wanted to have some data in Azure Table Storage... As none of the existing NodeRed Nodes where able to fulfill my needs, I've implemented my own

In one of my previous blogs, I've explained how to download file from Azure Blob storage… In this example shows you how to upload a file to Azure Blob Storage by just using the native REST API and a Shared Access Signature (SAS) ... The

Creating Intune Win32Apps is a time-consuming task as you have to collect a lot of information's for the import. This blog explains how to use packages from the RuckZuck Repository in Intune, as all the information you need is already there… Package File Intune

Downloading files from an Azure Blob Storage Container with PowerShell is very simple. There is no need to install any additional modules, you can just use the Blob Service REST API to get the files. This example is using a Shared Access Signature (SAS)

Another year is over, let's present some RuckZuck figures for the year 2018... the same as for 2017, 2016 and 2015 RuckZuck.exe was downloaded 10'926 times from https://github.com/rzander/ruckzuck, which seems less than last year (15'518), but this number did

The following PowerShell script will get the local BitLocker-Recovery-Key and stores it in an Azure Table Storage. You can run this script from any System-Management Tool (e.g. ConfigMgr, Intune, DeviceCommander etc. ) to have a common data-store for BitLocker-Recovery-Keys. Note: this script requires local

Did you now that ConfigMgr is able to assign and deploy Software in Real-Time to a device? No need to sync. AD Groups, update Collection Memberships, update the Device/User Policy... All this "Magic" is part of Software Approval enhancements from Build

"Modern" also means simplified, that's why I will give you an example on how to setup Windows 10 with just the original source (ISO) and a few scripts… Like in the "old" days, where unattended setup was the standard way

update 14.Sept.2018: Application permissions for MSGraph API updated In a scenario where you setup and prepare your devices on-prem but Windows-AutoPilot is used to simplify the OOBE part, you can automatically register the device in AutoPilot during initial OS deployment (e.g.

Device Commander (DevCDR) is a lightweight Client/Server Management tool for Windows, published under the GNU General Public License v3.0. The tool is a derivate from Collection Commander, a Configuration Manager addon to manage On-Premise Clients/Servers over PowerShell remoting. But the architecture

Creating computer objects in Active Directory with C# does not sound very complex as there are many examples available… The following code will create a computer in AD: //BAD Example, do not use it !!! //get the container for the computer DirectoryEntry deContainer = new DirectoryEntry(

Monday morning, Task-Sequence for 1709 upgrade stopped working.. Two questions will pop up very quickly: Who has changed something ? What has changed since last Friday ? To answer the first question, you can check Audit Status Messages in Configuration Manager, but to fix the issue

2017 is over, it's time to summarize the figures for RuckZuck.tools as I did for 2016 and 2015... This year is not that easy to compare, as the database structure and Web-Service completely changed in August and September to support RZCache and "