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
I love Autopilot and always use the enrollment status page (ESP), but sometimes I feel like I’m spending hours looking at the very limited updates and want to know what’s actually happening. Whilst there is the excellent log collection tool from Microsoft, that’s a snapshot and not a live view. With that in mind, I … Read more
Updated May 2023 – The script is now multi-language so can be deployed to an OS in any Windows supported language and should work the same Update – The script is now code signed for extra security One complaint I often hear about using straight OOBE autopilot is around the bloatware, either manufacturer installed (McAfee … Read more
App installations can be such a chore, even when using an MDM like Intune, you have to package, configure the AAD groups, detection methods and everything else. Great for the optional apps, but what about the core applications which everyone needs? Surely there is a quicker way! Well, after reading the Winget updates in Rudy’s … Read more
One of my most popular scripts displays a list of applications and the total number of installs (amongst other things) – here A recent comment on there asked if there was any way to list the install dates as well and this got me thinking. Could I create a new script which could show exactly … Read more
As I’m sure you’ve worked out, I’m a big fan of automating any regular mundane tasks to concentrate on the more exciting things and one of these tasks is customising each Intune environment with tenant specific information (background URL, homepage, contact details etc.). Whilst I have a build script (read more here) with a GUI … Read more
Following on from Part 1 (Win32), this post will run through creating an application in MSIX format Before starting, make sure you have a virtual machine (ideally running Hyper-V for ease of deployment) as we will need to destroy and re-create between applications. If you are running Hyper-V on a Windows non-server OS, you can … Read more
Intune is an excellent Application Deployment tool (amongst other things), but application packaging can be tricky at times and as with most things, there are many ways of packaging an app. In this post, I will run through the options for packaging an application into Win32/IntuneWin format, detection methods, supersedence and filtering. For part 2, … Read more
In the never-ending quest to make repeatable tasks easier, I’m taking on authentication to MS Graph and Azure AD As I’m sure you’ve worked out by now, I like to let Powershell do the heavy lifting on most tasks and more recently, that has included spinning up new Intune environments, but I still have to … Read more
Proactive Remediations are one of my favourite features within Intune, but I’m a fan of automation so I thought I’d do some digging in MS Graph to see how much I can automate. Before I start, if you haven’t installed it yet, go and get the Graph X-Ray extension for Edge/Chrome from here. It will … Read more