Andrew Taylor

I am a Cloud Architect specialising in Microsoft Modern Workplace Technologies particularly around Endpoint Management. I am also quite partial to some PowerShell scripting.

Endpoint Manager Newsletter – 23rd September 2022

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Welcome to this weeks newsletter with a plethora of incredible content for you to peruse at your leisure Community Content We start this week with an excellent run-through and script from Ben Reader to create a managed identity, assign permissions and then use it to authenticate against Graph https://powers-hell.com/2022/09/12/authenticate-to-graph-in-azure-functions-with-managed-identites/ This post from Niklas Tinner lists … Read more

Review – Feitian K33 Fido 2 Passkey

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With attacks on the rise and people becoming tired of authenticator alerts (which leads to them just accepting anything), now is the time to start looking at alternatives, uncluding Fido2 I was lucky enough to be sent a Fido 2 K33 device from Feitian technologies to give a thorough testing. Whilst I’ve been sent the … Read more

Automatically moving group members from Intune Update Rings to AutoPatch

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By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the new AutoPatch service from Microsoft (if you haven’t, read this and watch this excellent video explaining how it works). UPDATED 07/09/2022 During activation, you will be prompted to make sure devices are not currently assigned to a current update ring, easy enough, I’ll just go and unassign … Read more

Endpoint Manager Newsletter – 2nd September 2022

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Welcome to the first MEM newsletter of September. I hope everyone has had a fab summer! Community Content We start this week with a post which looks at my favourite part of Intune, Proactive Remediations. Joey Verlinden has helpfully put together an excellent list of remediations which you can just grab and deploy. https://www.joeyverlinden.com/my-most-used-proactive-remediations/ I’m … Read more

Unpinning the Microsoft Store using Intune

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The Microsoft store is a useful app, but realistically, no-one needs it pinned to the taskbar, especially on Intune managed machines where you want everyone using Company Portal. So, how do we remove it? In this post I’m going to run through the 4 different options available to you: Registry PowerShell Script Proactive Remediation Custom … Read more

Endpoint Manager Newsletter – 26th August 2022

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Welcome everyone to this weeks Endpoint Manager newsletter with another feast of content for you to enjoy. Community Content We start this week with a post from Manish Bangia with a thorough look at the difference between MDM and MAM enrollment. https://www.manishbangia.com/mdm-user-scope-vs-mam-user-scope/ Next, we have two posts from Jannik Reinhard, the first uses Automation runbooks … Read more