Update – 07/03/2023 Launched Intunebackup.com to provide a web front end to the script running in an Azure Automation runbook (More info here) Update – 05/03/2023 Version 5.0 released, changelog: Update – 24/02/2023 Version 4.0 released with a significant performance improvement Update – 16/02/2023 Version 3.0 now released with added … Read more
With the new Store Integration now rolling out to tenants everywhere, I am sure there are many of you with automated environment builds now wondering where that leaves us with the essential company portal app. As I’m sure you knew, the old method was difficult to automate and I personally … Read more
Following on from my previous post looking at User vs System deployments in this one I will look at another confusing part, Intune targeting. An important note – with very few exceptions, there is no right or wrong way to target, this is my opinion and your scenario may differ … Read more
One thing which often causes confusion in Intune is the option to “Deploy in User Context”, or System vs User. This and 32/64 bit (which you can read about in Rudy’s blog here) cause the most issues in deployments. This post will look at the differences between them and use … Read more
Introduction Application packaging can be one of the most time and resource intensive parts of managing a modern desktop estate, especially if you look after multiple customers. Winget gets us part of the way there (see my previous scripts here and here), but they all use the community repository which … Read more
One of the less-used features in Intune is the Discovered Apps link within Device Details: This gives a list of all apps it has found, whether deployed by Intune or installed in some other way. Sadly, out of the box, you have to manually click through each device to have … Read more
One of the new announcements from the Microsoft Technical Takeoff was the management of the Winget App Installer via GPO (this video) With the new ADMX import functionality, why not import these new GPOs and use Intune to manage the App Installer on your machines. Update – 1st November 2022 … Read more
Last Updated: 14/10/22 If you want to see the sessions I’m watching, I’ve shared the list here: https://ignite.microsoft.com/attendees/08e093b7-d5df-4a3b-9bb6-05cc76f2a868 Update: Video Links now added at the bottom I will include these in the newsletter as well, but this is a running list: Book of news: https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2022-book-of-news/ New Intune product family and … Read more
There are some incredible community tools out there for app deployment via Winget and Intune, but as I’m sure you’ve noticed, I prefer a more hands-off script so decided to make my own. I also stumbled across these PowerShell tools from a previous Microsoft Hackathon which opened up a world … Read more
I’ll be the first to admin, my dev tenant goes between two stages, messy or a disaster. When creating new scripts (especially my copy policy script), I’ll be testing them and end up with duplicate policies, faulty policies or if I have a runaway script, potentially many many duplicate applications. … Read more
