G’day. Today I want to show you how to configure regional settings through Intune proactive remediation scripts: UK date formats, the pound sign, the right country, and a sensible clock. The reason this needs a script at all is simple enough. Regional settings aren’t in the Settings Catalog. There’s no policy to pick, no toggle […]
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Intune
G’Day! Microsoft ships an official monitoring baseline for Azure Virtual Desktop as part of Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA). Host pool capacity, CPU, memory, disk, FSLogix, storage, service health, all pre-built as one deployable pattern. Good idea in theory. In practice I kept running into alerts that were too noisy, alerts that stayed silent when they shouldn’t
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Azure Virtual Desktop
G’day! If you’ve ever inherited an Intune tenant, you’ll know the feeling. You open Configuration profiles, and there it is ‘Win10 – Bitlocker v2’, ‘BitLocker Policy (NEW)’, ‘Copy of Copy of Defender’, a SCEP profile someone named after themselves in 2021, and forty others with no description between them. It’s a mess, and it makes
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Intune
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
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
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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W365
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
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
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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Azure Virtual Desktop
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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Azure Virtual Desktop
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
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
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
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
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