MDM errors failures and how to fix them

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Over the course of this many month Air-Watch MDM project I’ve been conducting, I have run into WAY more than my fair share of MDM enrollment related issues.

Troubleshooting MDM issues presents a whole new set of difficulties, because where SCCM provides glorious log files with tons of community engagement and answers, MDM gives you hard to locate Windows Event logs. Every SCCM error code is meticulously documented on the web, where MDM errors give you this result:

This is how you know you are WAY off the reservation!

Never fear though, for I have compiled the most common and frustating errors which I have painstakingly worked through into this, very originally named volume

Where to find enrollment errors

You can monitor the status of an enrollment in the Windows Event Viewer, under this area:

Microsoft-Windows-DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider/Admin

It is routine to see some errors here, so not all errors need to be solved, however when you’re trying to troubleshoot why a machine won’t enroll in MDM, then you should be looking here first.   Continue reading →

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Wow, ONE MILLION HITS!

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I hope you guys will tolerate a little bit of navel gazing for this post!

Today at the FoxDeploy Global Headquarters in Marietta, Georgia, we counted down to a very special milestone here!

1 MILLION HITS!

First and foremost, thank you very much for sticking with me through the years and through the awesome engagement, comments and corrections!  In this post, we’ll take a quick look back at some of the history of the site, what I’ve learned, some hard knocks and some of the fun to look forward too!

Looking back to my First post

Hard to believe that just under four years ago, on August 21st I made my first post here!  It was this helpful little post here, How to Reset your local admin password on Hyper-V.

This post has done well over the years, accruing a little more than 1,000 hits over the years.  I’m not why this might be, but this post on how to recover your password spikes every year after Cinco De Mayo.  What may have happened so that people accidentally locked themselves out?

The Monday after Cinco de Mayo had the greatest hits ever for this post. Looks like people all forgot their passwords for some reason…maybe Margaritas?

This post slowly gained some traffic and gave me confidence to focus on my writing in the evenings, but children would prove to make that a little bit difficult. Continue reading →

Building a Windows 10 IoT C# traffic monitor: Part II

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Previously 🔗, we took off our socks and put our feet into the sand, and wrote our first C# Console application.  We built on it and added the ability to complete a web request and even parsed some JSON as well!  Along the way, we learned a bit of how things work in C# and some background on programming terms and functionality.

In this post, we will take our code and port it over to run on .net core, and hook up the results to the GUI. Stick with me here, and by the end you’ll have a framework you can modify to list your Twitter followers, your Facebook Feed, or monitor your own blog stats as well.

And if you do modify it…

Then share it!  You’ll find a “LookWhatIbuilt” folder in the repository.  You are encouraged to share screenshots, snippets, even your own whole project if you like, by sending a PR.  Once we have a few of these, we’ll do a Spotlight post highlighting some of the cool things people are doing,

Cracking open the IoTDefaultApp

When we imaged our rPi with the Iot Dashboard, it wrote the OS and also delivered the ‘IoT Core Default App’ to the device.  It’s pretty slick looking and gives us a very good jumping off point to reskin things and have our app look nice.  We can view the code for the 🔗 Default App here on the MS IoT GitHub  .

Since this is ‘babies first application’ we are going to modify this existing app to suit our purposes.  Download the sample from the link above and then double-click the Visual Studio Project  .SLN file.  There’s kind of a lot going on when you first open it, but the file we want to edit is MainPage.XAML.

Over in the Solution Explorer in the right-gutter, expand out to IotCoreDefaultApp \ Views then click MainPage.xaml.

Here is the template we’re going to be modifying.

There’s kind of a lot going on here too, so I recommend that you power on your Pi now and see what the default app looks like, here’s a screen shot… Continue reading →

Building a Windows 10 IoT C# traffic monitor: Part I

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We’re counting down here at FoxDeploy, about to reach a traffic milestone (1 Million hits!) , and because I am pretty excited and like to celebrate moments like this, I had an idea…

I was originally inspired by MKBHD’s very cool YouTube subscriber tracker device, which you can see in his video here, and thought, boy I would love one of these!

It turns out that this is the La Metric Time, a $200 ‘hackable Wi-Fi clock’.  It IS super cool, and if I had one, I could get this working in a few hours of work.  But $200 is $200.

I then remembered my poor neglected rPi sitting in its box with a bunch of liquid flow control dispensers and thought that I could probably do this with just a few dollars instead(spoiler:WRONG)!

It’s been a LONGGG time since I’ve written about Windows IoT and Raspberry Pi, and to be honest, that’s mostly because I was getting lazy and hated switching my output on my monitor from the PC to the rPi.  I did some googling and found these displays which are available now, and mount directly to your Pi!

Join me on my journey as I dove into c# and buying parts on eBay from shady Chinese retailers and in the end, got it all working.  And try to do it spending less than $200 additional dollars!

Necessary Materials

To properly follow along, you’ll need a Raspberry Pi of your own. Windows 10 IoT will work on either the Raspberry Pi 2B + or Raspberry Pi 3, so that’s your choice but the 3 is cheaper now.  Click here for one!

You’ll also need a micro SD card as well, but you probably have one too.  Get an 8gb or bigger and make sure it is fast/high-quality like a Class 10 Speed card.

Writing an SD Card is MUCH easier than it was in our previous post.  Now, it’s as simple as downloading the ‘IoT Dashboard‘ and following the dead simple wizard for Setting up a new device.  You can even embed Wi-Fi Connections so that it will connect to Wi-Fi too, very cool.  So, write this SD Card and then plug in your rPi to your monitor or… Continue reading →

The quest for true silent MDM Enrollment

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If you’ve been reading my blog recently, you’ve seen a lot of posts about MDM and Provisioning Options for Windows 10.  Previously we’ve covered:

And in this post we will dig further into the options available to us to deploy a Provisioning Package with the goal of allowing for silent MDM Enrollment and Silent application of a provisioning package!

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