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
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
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
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
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
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
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
With the release of Winget, we now have another app deployment method which works nicely with Intune. At the moment building a custom Winget repo is not an easy task, but you can deploy using a custom manifest. This blog post will cover how to use a custom manifest stored online to deploy an application … Read more
I have just release Version 2.0 of the Intune build script to PSGallery and Github Install-Script -Name BuildIntuneEnvironment This one has a number of new additions: Automatic creation of Autopilot dynamic Entra ID Group Automatic creation of Preview, Pilot and VIP Entra ID Groups Automatic assignment of both Office and Windows update rings to the … Read more
Licensed software can be a pain, especially with manual user assignment and then deployment. Fortunately for MS Project and MS Visio it can be automated so users can automatically receive Visio and Project upon being given a license and if you revoke the license, it can automatically uninstall. Better still, the group creation can be … Read more