Teams missing from M365 apps in Europe – This is why

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

Removing Windows Backup on Windows 10

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 this Reddit thread:https://www.reddit.com/r/Intune/comments/16i8arf/can_we_remove_the_new_windows_backup_start_menu If I … Read more

New Book Announcement

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 which I hope you … Read more

Remediations on demand in bulk

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 I built this script on … Read more

Creating Windows ISO with Autopilot JSON Injected

When migrating to the modern Autopilot world, if you are not purchasing net-new devices, you may find yourself having to rebuild current ones. This means getting these devices into Autopilot devices. The most popular option (and rightly so) is to use the Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo script, whether that’s the official one or the community edition Sometimes though, … Read more

Setting Apps to Self-Service Uninstall in Company portal using PowerShell

In 2307 Intune release, users now have the ability to uninstall apps themselves in Company Portal. I’m not going to show you how to do that manually as that’s well covered by others like this one from Prajwal: https://www.prajwaldesai.com/intune-uninstall-apps-in-company-portal/ Instead, I am going to give you a quick way to switch as many apps as … Read more