Windows 11 is here and it’s time to start preparing for deployments and management. I have now updated my build environment to include some Windows 11 specific tweaks which I will outline below. To use my base environment you can use the script from powershell gallery or grab directly from github here The first change … Read more
This script is available from the powershell gallery here I often find myself being asked to quickly check how many installs of a various app and being a typical geek, logging into a web page, a few clicks and a search is more effort than I’d like Again, using the excelled scripts already provided by … Read more
Available from PowerShell Gallery Often when troubleshooting application installs from Intune (especially Autopilot), I find myself needing the app ID to see which particular application is failing. Whilst I can look at the web address, that involves clicking on each app in turn, and with many apps, often having to click View More many times. … Read more
Whilst Enterprise state roaming is an excellent addition to Azure/Inune, I’ve found it doesn’t capture everything in a user profile and can lead to complaints about lost data in the event of a PC failure. Whilst we all backup when rebuilding a machine, how many people do regular backups of anything other than documents? For … Read more
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
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 As usual, all scripts are freely available on GitHub, feel free to amend as … 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
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
