Android for Work play store crashing bug - resolved

As per my previous blog post here there was a bug where Android for Work devices experienced an issue in that the managed play store was frequently crashing during enrolment. This has now been resolved and the issue was due to a timeout between Intune and the managed Google play app on enrolment. Microsoft and Google worked together to resolve this but unfortunately I have not been able to get any more information. I can confirm now though that I have removed the workaround and  we are deploying all apps to the user on initial enrolment which seems to be working as expected.

Android for Work Exchange conditional access bug - resolved

I can confirm that as per my previous post here the Exchange conditional access issue was only affecting 1st wave builds of SCCM 1706 and the update released on 31st August includes the fix required to resolve this issue.

SCCM 1706 (1st Wave) Update 2 Console updates

If you were one of the eager beavers like me to run a script in order to be able to access the first wave of the 1706 update you may have notice the recent release of this update https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4036267/update-2-for-system-center-configuration-manager-version-1706-first-wa


Just thought I would share my findings as when I was trying to update the SCCM console I noticed that there were two updates - 5.00.8540.1600 and 5.00.8540.1601 the former being related to the release of update 1, which was only applicable at the time for systems updated between 8th and 11th August 2017 inclusive, which our was not.


I had forgotten that in the past that for multiple updates of the console there was a specific process that has to be followed in order for all of the updates to install successfully in that the console needed to be re-launched between each update. With this particular update I found that if this process was not followed the below error was displayed

And when viewing the report found that it contained the entry "AdminUI.ExtensionInstaller.exe Error: 0 : System.IO.IOException\r\nThe process cannot access the file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\ConfigMgr10\AdminconsoleSetup\469A3000-14DA-425E-B288-4B0E16DB87C4' because it is being used by another process.\r\n"

The re launch of the console followed by attempting the second update again would not work this time and the only resolution I could find for this was to restart the system. I therefore, in order to prevent this reboot, carried out the following process

Launched the console for the first time and proceeded with the update

Launched the console for the second time, however this time selected "Cancel" and let the console load before closing







I then launched the console for a third time and proceeded with the second console update