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 – The policy locations are … 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 branding https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-endpoint-manager-blog/introducing-the-microsoft-intune-product-family/ba-p/3650769 New Intune advanced … Read more
Update 28/06/23 – Version 4.0 now lets you use a command line parameter to specify install and uninstall group names 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 … 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. Every now and then it … Read more
With the demise of Internet Explorer (RIP), the Enterprise Mode Site list is now an essential part of any estate where you have vendor websites which are only compatible with Internet Explorer. If you have such websites, you have my sympathies, but you do have options available to you. In this post I’m going to … Read more
I like to think of Azure AD as the front door to a house. Whilst you can have a perfectly secure wireless network configured with filtering and all of the other fun bits, if you leave the front door open, they’ll just steal your computer! This is why securing Azure AD should be the first … Read more
By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the new AutoPatch service from Microsoft (if you haven’t, read this and watch this excellent video explaining how it works). UPDATED 07/09/2022 During activation, you will be prompted to make sure devices are not currently assigned to a current update ring, easy enough, I’ll just go and unassign … Read more
The Microsoft store is a useful app, but realistically, no-one needs it pinned to the taskbar, especially on Intune managed machines where you want everyone using Company Portal. So, how do we remove it? In this post I’m going to run through the 4 different options available to you: Registry PowerShell Script Proactive Remediation Custom … Read more
I’m sure most if not all of you have a test tenant (never test in production) for new policies, features etc. What happens when you then want to push this change out to live (or even to multiple customers)? You either have to JSON the policy and run the script, use a backup and restore … Read more
Microsoft Dev Boxes have today entered Preview. If you don’t know anything about them, they are pre-configured machines to deploy to your developers with all of the software they are likely to use (and admin rights if needed). Fully secure and high performance, they meet the needs of developers without IT staff having to worry … Read more