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
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
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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Intune
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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Intune
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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Intune
Hello there (Obi-Wan voice), keeping your Intune base applications up to date can be a challenge, today I want to show you how you keep your base applications up to date without 3rd party toolsets so when delivered to endpoints the latest versions are always installed to your end-users, thus ensuring that users are productive
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Intune
Happy New Year, hope you had a great time! With my first post of 2022, I want to describe how you can deploy bookmarks (aka favourites) into the Mozilla Firefox browser, display the bookmark bar and remove default bookmarks for a clean layout via Microsoft Intune. 💡TipWant to deploy bookmarks for other browsers? See my
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Intune
G’day, a quick post on how you can remove the Chat icon from the taskbar on Windows 11 devices using Microsoft Intune. Before we begin, this policy only applies to Windows 11 Enterprise editions. Let’s dig in…. Creating a Custom Configuration Profile Log in to the Intune portal, go to Devices, Configuration Profiles and then
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Intune
Hi all, a post on how you can use Device Filters to target specific configurations within Intune to include or exclude Windows 11 devices only. This may be useful when you’re configuring personalisation settings or application deployments and want to either include or exclude specific device properties. What are filters? Microsoft released Filters for Intune
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Intune
G’Day, today, I want to show you a quick and easy way of removing the News and Interests section from the taskbar via Microsoft Intune. News and Interests was introduced by Microsoft in the May monthly update for Windows 1909+ devices. It is seen as more of a consumer item so many organisations are removing
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Intune