Gannon Novak

Triple Threat Match: Location Services vs Autopilot vs Intune

Overview This blog covers something that ended up taking wayyyy more time and energy than I thought it would, and taught me that configuring location settings on Windows 11 is far more complicated than you’d think. This all started with a client who told me they couldn’t get location services enabled on their devices. This […]

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PrintServerToIntune – Migrate Printers to Intune as TCP/IP Connections

Overview As much as I dislike printers, many organizations still rely on them. It often becomes a conversation when converting devices to be cloud-native and managed by Intune. My general recommendation is that if there is a large fleet of printers, use a cloud-based printing solution for managing printers. It will be easier to manage

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Auto-logon for Assigned Access and What Breaks It

Many situations have use cases for kiosk-type devices that need more functionality than a single-app kiosk. For those use cases, we steer towards shared devices or multi-app kiosks (now configured using assigned access). Back in the Windows 10 days, there was an actual multi-app kiosk profile template that we could use in Intune, but Microsoft

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Azure v6 VMs and AVD: Automating Page File Setup on Temp Storage with Intune

Azure Temp storage and Page file review If you do any work with Azure Virtual Machines, you have probably run into VM SKUs that contain a temporary storage disk. These are VMs with a “d” in the name (e.g. – D4ds). Many people don’t know what they’re for or why they are even an option.

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