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Monitoring Windows Updates Using Update Compliance

February 1, 2023March 10, 2022 by Andrew Taylor

Update: Update Compliance is now EOL, please use Windows Update for Business reports instead: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/now-generally-available-windows-update-for-business-reports/ba-p/3677018 Today’s post is about a Microsoft tool which is completely free and a great way of tracking Windows updates across the estate. Did I mention it’s free? If you want to read up more about it, here is the Microsoft … Read more

Alerting changes in Intune environment using Azure Event Hub and Azure Logic Apps

March 9, 2022 by Andrew Taylor

Sometimes, especially in large environments, keeping track of who is making which changes within Intune can be a pain and there is always that one time where change control isn’t followed and something breaks. In this post I’m going to configure Intune to alert on Audit Logs, send to an Azure Event Hub and then … Read more

Copying Intune Policies

January 27, 2023March 4, 2022 by Andrew Taylor

Update, the cross-tenant version here is more updated and works on the same tenant as well, please use that one I often find myself needing to take a copy of individual Intune policies, either for a bit of UAT, or even to change one setting for a different group of people. Whilst there are ways … Read more

Creating Common Entra ID Groups for Intune – Scripted

July 11, 2023March 1, 2022 by Andrew Taylor

I often find myself having to create the same selection of Entra ID groups when deploying a new Intune environment and whilst the Entra Portal is easy to use, I always look to find a way to cut down how long each task takes. The more I can automate, the more I can get done … Read more

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Calculator

February 19, 2022 by Andrew Taylor

Sometimes I need to get quick AVD pricing without having to go into the depth of the Microsoft official calculator so using the Microsoft Pricing API I’ve quickly put one together: I’ve put together a quick AVD pricing calculator to grab a quick estimate pricing, it uses the MS API for the latest costs: https://azvmprice.andrewstaylor.com/avd/ … Read more

Quickly (and programmatically) get Azure VM Pricing

February 3, 2022 by Andrew Taylor

Whilst I love the Azure Pricing Calculator there are times when I need to quickly grab a VM price (on a customer call for example). In my case, I also wanted a way to grab the latest pricing within a calculation spreadsheet rather than having to go through the pricing calc GUI each time. Then … Read more

Finding devices (and details) assigned to a user in Intune

December 22, 2021 by Andrew Taylor

I often find myself looking in Intune to find a PC name of a machine assigned to a user (it saves having to deploy bginfo or similar), but as with many of my scripts, I like to find a quicker and easier way of doing it. This one is available both on github and Powershell … Read more

Quickly Sync all Intune Devices

October 30, 2022November 24, 2021 by Andrew Taylor

A very quick script today but one which I use regularly. There is nothing worse than deploying a new policy or app and then waiting for the machines to check-in, especially if you’ve just missed a cycle. This script runs through all devices and nudges them along. As usual it’s on GitHub and PS Gallery … Read more

Automating App deployment with Winget and Powershell

July 11, 2023November 13, 2021 by Andrew Taylor

For anyone in an environment with multiple customers, packaging, configuring and deploying the same app multiple times seems such a waste of valuable time, especially when having to do so with every update too! Some thanks first, this script has come together with some help from others; First up, Niels Kok for his excellent Packaging … Read more

Finding new devices and stale devices – The quick way

November 12, 2021 by Andrew Taylor

Sometimes with a large estate you need to quick check if a new device has been added, or how many stale devices there are cluttering up your deployment reports. Yes, you could export devices and filter, or go into the GUI and sort by date, but I’m always looking for ways to bypass the GUI … Read more