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How to Manage Local Administrators Group Membership on Microsoft Entra Joined Devices Using Intune

Starting with Windows 10 version 20H2, you can use Azure AD groups to manage local administrators group privileges on Azure AD joined devices with the Local Users and Group MDM policy. Organizations can use Microsoft Intune to manage these policies using Custom OMA-URI Settings or Account protection policy.

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How to Schedule SCCM Client Reboot through ConfigMgr

You may have a requirement to reboot SCCM client computers which have not been rebooted for n number of days. This process can be used to schedule a reboot using PowerShell script deployed as SCCM application. The PowerShell script will check if machine was rebooted in last n number of days. If not it will return exit code 3010 instructing SCCM client agent that a soft reboot is required.

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How to Create SCCM Device Collection Based on Computer Hardware Details | ConfigMgr

SCCM Computer hardware classes can be used to create dynamic query based device collection. There are different classes such as Computer System , PC_BIOS , System Enclosure , TPM etc which can be used for queries. A collection or query created in Configuration Manager uses WMI Query Language (WQL) to request objects from the SMS Provider WMI Schema, which in turn retrieves the data from site database.

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Get Hardware Hash for Windows Autopilot

To identify a device with Windows Autopilot, the device’s unique hardware identify (hardware hash) must be captured and uploaded to the service. This is usually first step when you want to provision a machine using Windows Autopilot. The hardware hash can be uploaded by manufacturer / raeseller for new devices. However, hardware hash need to be collected manually for the devices which are already in corporate environment and not already enrolled into Microsoft Intune.

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