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Azure Virtual Desktop: Cut Entra Hybrid Join Times from Hours to Minutes

04/02/2026 | Azure Virtual Desktop | 2 Comments

G’day! If you’ve ever deployed Azure Virtual Desktop with Entra Hybrid Join, you’ll know the frustration. You deploy a perfectly good session host, everything provisions beautifully, domain join works, applications are installed, and then you sit there. Waiting. And waiting. And waiting some more for the bloody thing to show up as ‘Entra Hybrid Joined’ […]

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Azure Virtual Desktop

Teams VDI Optimisation Blocked by Security Policies? Here’s the Intune Fix for AVD & Windows 365

30/09/2025 | Azure Virtual Desktop, W365 | 3 Comments

G’Day! I recently needed to fix an optimisation issue with Microsoft Teams on Windows 365 Cloud PCs — Teams was showing as “Not Optimised”. Once I traced the cause I realised the same fix works just as well for Azure Virtual Desktop, so I thought I’d share. If you’ve ever implemented security frameworks like CIS

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Azure Virtual Desktop, W365

Windows 365 Alerts: Spot Problems Before Users Do

23/09/2025 | W365 | Leave a Comment

G’day everyone! Hope you’re all well. Quick awareness post today on something I keep coming across in Windows 365 environments – nobody’s configured the monitoring alerts in Intune! This isn’t going to be an in-depth technical deep dive, but more of a “wake up and smell the green tea” moment for anyone managing W365. I’ve

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Teams Privacy Popups: Sort Them Once for All AVD and Windows 365 Users

15/09/2025 | Azure Virtual Desktop, W365 | 3 Comments

G’day everyone! Hope you’re all well. Quick one today that I know will resonate with anyone managing Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows 365 environments – those bloody annoying Microsoft Teams privacy prompts! You know the ones I’m talking about. Every time a new user logs into their AVD session or Windows 365 Cloud PC,

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Azure Virtual Desktop, W365

RDP Multipath: Finally, Some Relief for Those Dodgy AVD Connections!

26/08/2025 | Azure Virtual Desktop, W365 | Leave a Comment

G’day everyone! Hope you’re all well. Quick post today on something that’s been rolling out that I’m genuinely excited about, RDP Multipath for Azure Virtual Desktop. If you’re anything like me and have been dealing with users moaning about dropped connections and laggy sessions, then this might just be the solution we’ve all been waiting

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Azure Virtual Desktop, W365

Configure AVD Languages with Azure Image Builder

07/07/2025 | Azure Virtual Desktop | 1 Comment

If you’ve ever had to deal with users logging into an Azure Virtual Desktop session that greets them in the wrong language, you’ll know how frustrating it can be for both them and you. Sorting out language and regional settings across a fleet of session hosts isn’t exactly thrilling, but it’s one of those things

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AVD App Deployments Made Easy with Nerdio ShellApps and PSADT

03/12/2024 | Azure Virtual Desktop | 1 Comment

Hello! In this post, we’ll explore how to integrate Nerdio ShellApps with the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSADT) to streamline even the most complex application deployments. This powerful combination is particularly useful for handling challenging apps that require custom registry entries or files distributed across all user profiles. By pairing PSADT with Nerdio ShellApps, you

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Take the Hassle Out of Office Template Deployments with SharePoint

16/09/2024 | SharePoint | 4 Comments

Need to deploy your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint templates to both endpoints and Office Online without any client-side configurations? In this post, we’ll guide you through creating a SharePoint Asset Library to centrally manage and deploy your Office templates effortlessly across Microsoft 365. Whether you’re looking to streamline your workflow or ensure consistency across your

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SharePoint

Maximise your OneDrive: Recommended Profile Settings via Intune

10/07/2024 | Intune, Windows | 8 Comments

Hello again, today’s topic is a practical one: how to deploy OneDrive profile settings using Microsoft Intune. This blog post aims to guide you through the process of setting up OneDrive on Windows devices in a way that’s both secure and user-friendly, complete with visual aids whenever possible. With Intune, you’ll be able to configure

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Intune, Windows

Storage Sense not deleting downloads – Workaround

05/07/2024 | Intune, Windows | 6 Comments

Hi all, in a previous post I went through what Storage Sense is and how to configure it via Microsoft Intune, this post can be found here. However, have you noticed that Storage Sense doesn’t actually delete the users’ files within the downloads folder? If so, stick around as I will give you a workaround

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Intune, Windows

Know your updates – Configuring Windows Update for Business Reports

12/06/2024 | Intune, M365, Windows

Hello there! It’s been a little while since my last blog post, unfortunately, I was caring for a sick family member but on the positive side, I’m now a father so life has gotten in the way of posting, but I’m back and happy to be blogging again! More than ever, it’s important to know

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Intune, M365, Windows

Set DNS Suffixes via Microsoft Intune

11/10/2022 | Intune | 1 Comment

Post on how to easily set DNS suffixes via Microsoft Intune to your endpoints, this is especially helpful for end users so they don’t have to type in the full FQDN within environments where internal resources such as file shares are widely used and web sites are internally being hosted, etc. Create the Settings Catalog

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Intune

Enrolment Notifications via Microsoft Intune

04/10/2022 | Intune

There’s new functionality released within Microsoft Intune that can be configured to automatically notify end-users when a device tied to their user account has been enroled, these can be in the form of emails and \ or push notifications, more information here on the what’s new page, this is a good development as this is

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Setting time zones via Intune

14/07/2022 | Intune | 1 Comment

G’Day to you. Today, a quick post on how to set time zones on your Windows endpoints via Microsoft Intune. We’ll gather the timezone ID’s and then deploy via the settings catalogue. Gathering the timezone ID First of all, we need to gather the timezone ID of your desired location, to do this, open PowerShell

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Script – Bulk create common AAD Groups for MSIntune

30/06/2022 | Intune | 1 Comment

Hello there, I want to share with you my a script that bulk creates common Azure AD dynamic queries that are used for Intune deployments, I work for a managed service provider and find that I create the same groups over and over again, so I thought I would create a script that automates this.

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