Andrew Taylor 
Driver updates, always a pain! Microsoft are fixing it with the Windows Update drivers in the update rings in Intune, but until that includes Firmware as well it’s best to use the tools available. Fortunately, both Dell and HP offer utilities to update drivers and they both have command line switches which we can use. … Read more
A fun post today, with Windows 11 looming, I built a machine from DOS 6.0 all the way to Win10 using only the upgrade path, no formatting of the drive. It’s a real-time video so timings below if you want to flick through, or watch from the start if you suffer from insomnia MS-DOS – … Read more
After creating some scripts to build an Azure and AVD environment, it’s time to give Intune some attention. For this one, I will be using Powershell, POSHGUI and the excellent Intune Backup and Restore script UPDATE: Now available on Powershell Gallery Install-Script -Name BuildIntuneEnvironment As usual, all scripts are freely available on GitHub, feel free … Read more
Following on from my previous post on creating an AVD environment, for those who want to deploy AVD, it’s recommended to build an Azure landing zone first (plus if going for the Microsoft Specialty, a scripted landing zone and AVD deployment is always useful) Again, using a combination of Bicep, powershell and POSHGUI makes the … Read more
If you want to quickly deploy an AVD environment using the latest tools, Project Bicep and Azure Image Builder would be a good place to start. In this post I’ll run through the script I use to deploy these for both speed and ease. It has been build using POSH GUI to make it a … Read more
Windows 10 Fast Boot, one of the first things I disable in any corporate environment, users shut down at the end of the day and will rarely restart unless told to so not fully shutting down is just asking for trouble. Traditionally I would deploy this via a device script within Intune, but it’s a … Read more
Whether you are building your AVD gold image via Image builder or configuring a virtual machine, optimizing the image and installing any pre-requisites will make the experience much better for the end users. There are many scripts available for this, in this post I’ll run through the one I have made and use. The script … Read more
Following on from the previous post, in this one I am going to cover deploying FSLogix configuration using an Azure Automation Runbook For AVD I think of Azure Automation as Task Scheduler, only better, it is useful for a variety of tasks, for this post I will just cover the FSLogix config. First up you’ll … Read more
With Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) moving to an Entra join, using Group Policy to configure FSLogix settings will soon be seen as ‘old fashioned’ As yet there aren’t any administrative templates in Microsoft Intune for FSLogix so we need to get a bit more creative. In these posts I am going to run through … Read more