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
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. TIP: Want to deploy bookmarks for other browsers? See
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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 into MEMAC portal, go to Devices, Configuration Profiles and then click Create
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Intune
Welcome! Last month, I demonstrated how to deploy the FortiClient VPN and Profiles via Microsoft Intune, this week I’ll show you how to deploy Barracuda VPN and Profiles instead, I hope you find this guide useful, let’s get into it! Prerequisites Basic understanding of Win32 application packaging Microsoft Intune licence Permissions to create applications within
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Intune
Welcome! Today, I will show you a complete guide on how to deploy FortiClient VPN and VPN profile settings via Microsoft Intune for Windows 10 endpoints. Prerequisites Basic understanding of Win32 application packaging Microsoft Intune license. Permissions to create applications within Microsoft Intune. Test device and user. Download FortiClient VPN only setup files Understanding of
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Intune
Welcome! Today, I will show you a complete guide on how to deploy Edge favourites via Microsoft Intune. Prerequisites Creating the Edge favourites XML Layout To deploy a list of corporate managed favourites to the Edge browser, we must first construct the XML file that instructs Microsoft Intune which favourites names, URL’s and folders to
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Intune