I’ve been using Winget for a while now and whilst it’s fantastic, the command line interface sometimes wasn’t ideal, especially as I tend to live in PowerShell and like to be able to manipulate the output a bit. For my winget scripts, I have been using some functions put together … Read more
Welcome to the post-Ignite newsletter. I hope all of you who managed to attend in person had a great time! Community Content We start this week with a guide on how to further secure your Android devices using Defender for Android from Niklas Rast https://niklasrast.com/2023/11/14/empowering-android-enterprise-security-with-microsoft-defender-for-android/ A second post from Niklas, … Read more
Winget is an excellent tool, but in some organizations you may not want to use the community repo (although all apps are checked), or you may want to host your own internal apps, but deploy and update via Winget. One option is to simply use a custom manifest which I … Read more
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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read more
Anyone running Windows 10 may have noticed KB5029331 has added a Windows Backup application which doesn’t work on non-consumer accounts, but still forces itself onto the start menu. I’m not a fan of any bloatware so want to add this to things to remove. Fortunately I had some help from … Read more
I’m excited to announce the pre-order of my new book “Intune Cookbook” which covers a full Intune setup and management from start to finish as well as the all important PowerShell and Graph commands (we all know how much I love automating!) It’s many months of effort and a long … Read more
During the excellent Modern Endpoint Management summit in Paris, I was sitting in the equally excellent session from Florian Salzmann and one of the questions was if the Device bulk commands could send an on-demand remediation to multiple devices and the answer was no. This gave me an idea so … Read more
