Following on from Part 1 where I looked at Intune Monitor in the Devices Blade, now we can look at the same within the Apps Blade App Licenses This first option looks at any Microsoft Store, Managed Google Play Store, or Apple App Store applications. It can see how many licenses have been purchased for … Read more

Welcome, in this post I’m going to look at the Monitor tools in Devices within Intune, an icon I’m sure you’ve all seen, but rarely clicked on: What lies inside these icons I hear you ask, well, it is a wealth of information covering the vast majority of settings within Intune, although it’s a bit … Read more

Windows 11 has been out a while now and I’m sure most of you have been testing and are nearing the point of looking at deploying to your userbase. As we all know, however, the requirements are a lot stricter than they were for Windows 10 (or even 7) so you may find yourselves needing … Read more

Greetings one and all. For this post I’m going to review the various options available today for managing Azure AD Joined devices with admin rights. This isn’t looking at it from the users perspective, I don’t believe there are any circumstances where a user requires admin access on a corporate device, I’m looking at this … Read more

I’m sure most of you are now either moving to or considering a switch to Windows 11 and want to configure the start menu the same as on Windows 10. I’m sure you’ve also noticed that the method to configure it has changed so the previous policies won’t be working. In this post I’ll run … Read more

Picture the scene, you have a large organisation (or possibly multiple large organisations) and many little silos within, each has their own IT department and traditionally they all did their own thing with imaging, app deployment, probably via a delegated OU in active directory. Now you want to go cloud native, but the idea of … Read more

I’m sure everyone reading this has deployed many applications within Intune using the win32 format and most likely used an MSI code or a file/registry detection method to monitor for a completed install (and why wouldn’t you, they work perfectly) Sometimes however, you might come across an application which is more tricky to detect, or … Read more

As I’m sure some of you know, I’m a big fan of Powershell scripting and find most tasks can be done far more quickly with a script than manually. Whilst the Powershell scripts within Intune work nicely, they are run-once scripts (unless you want to start deleting registry keys) and sometimes you want a script … Read more

Following on from the previous post on environment backup, how we’re going to look at the users own data. I’m sure we’re all following the 3-2-1 rule for our infrastructure, but what about user data on the device. We now have wonderfully cloud managed devices which can be remotely rebuilt to users in the comfort … Read more