Andrew Taylor 
Sometimes when running scripts in the system context with Intune we need to query the local user, whether that is the registry, or the local drive (Requirements scripts, detection scripts where you can’t switch to current user are a good example) Using the environment variables won’t work at the system level as it will just … Read more
Packaging, deploying and updating applications can be hugely time consuming, especially when trying to keep on top of the latest zero-day exploit in your apps (I’m looking at you Chrome!) Fortunately there are now a handful of package managers available to take away this pain, especially useful when you have multiple customers with largely the … Read more
November is here and I have seen my first Christmas TV advert so the countdown has definitely begun and after the clock change here, it is feeling a lot more like winter! We have some excellent content this week from this incredible community. Community Content We start this week with an excellent look at the … Read more
Welcome to the spooky Halloween special Intune newsletter, full of creepy content and haunting videos (maybe) Community Content We start this week with Rudy Ooms digging into the Intune DLLs again, this time discovering some clues pointing to a new version 2 of Autopilot… https://call4cloud.nl/2023/10/there-will-be-blood-autopilot-version-2/ Next, for anyone doing app packaging, PSADT is a great … Read more
Welcome to another exciting newsletter, bristiling with amazing content! Community Content We start with a look at the new “config refresh” functionality and how to enable it in your tenant from Peter van der Woude https://www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/scheduling-automatic-policy-refreshes-for-windows-devices-without-requiring-a-check-in/ Nicklas Ahlberg also looks at Config Refresh and how to deploy it in this post https://www.rockenroll.tech/2023/10/17/windows-11-config-refresh/ There is a … Read more
Welcome everyone, the weeks are really flying by at the moment. Fortunately the incredible content from this community is keeping up! Community Content We start this week with an excellent guide from Niklas Rast on how to deploy and configure Defender for Endpoint on your iOS devices https://niklasrast.com/2023/10/10/securing-ios-devices-with-defender-for-endpoint-a-comprehensive-guide/ Intune can link to third party connectors … Read more
If you are in Europe and have noticed that Teams is no longer installing with your M365 apps, this isn’t a bug, it is due to the European Competition ruling: https://blogs.microsoft.com/eupolicy/2023/08/31/european-competition-teams-office-microsoft-365/ The fix is to deploy the Teams Machine wide installer onto your devices: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployment To make things easier, I have created a script which … Read more
Happy October and welcome to this weeks newsletter, quite a lot of video content this week so don’t forget to check those out! Community Content We start this week with a useful script from Damien Van Robaeys which will report not only on the last 20 devices with a BSOD, but also include the BSOD … Read more
Welcome once again to another Intune newsletter full of exciting content! Community Content We start this week with the next part of the Intune Starter series from Florian Salzmann, this one looking at configuring and using Autopilot https://scloud.work/windows-autopilot-setup/ Next, in a follow-up to last weeks post (well worth reading), Peter van der Woude looks at … Read more
Whilst I’m a massive fan of PMPC, Scappman and Winget, there are times where I have to go old fashioned and package applications myself I’ve found the best way of detecting the uninstall string to use is to install the application (ideally in a sandbox) and then go digging through the registry which works well, … Read more
