If you’ve been working with Intune and Autopilot for at least the last few years, you’ve probably heard the saying “Friends don’t let friends use Hybrid-Joined Autopilot”. Trust me, I agree with that, but as an IT Consultant/Advisor, you can only guide and advise clients. You can’t force them to do things. In addition, some […]
App deployment is something just about every Intune admin must be comfortable with. Recently, most apps have become simpler to package and deploy. However, occasionally you’ll still have proprietary, legacy, or just poorly written apps that don’t contain silent installers or do things out of the ordinary. This was the case for an app I
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If you’re running virtual servers in Azure, it’s a good idea to explore removing your servers in favor of PaaS/SaaS solutions. Running VMs is often more expensive, and you have more overhead and maintenance. With that said, VMs are still very common, and oftentimes, migrating existing VMs to Azure is one of the first steps
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The Issue As someone whose primary responsibility includes Endpoint Management, I received a question several weeks ago regarding managing Office add-ins on endpoints. Typically, Group Policy and/or Intune controlled this in the past. However, as things have changed with the M365 Apps over the last several years, so has managing the add-ins. Now, managing add-ins
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Group tags are a great way to break up your autopilot profile assignments based on the device’s needs. Since I work primarily with smaller businesses, I often see that no group tags are in use, and a blanket autopilot profile is assigned to all devices. While this works for some smaller organizations, as they grow
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I recently assisted a client with an unusual Autopilot (v1) issue I hadn’t seen before. While the solution turned out to be straightforward, it required dusting off some old Autopilot knowledge and revisiting the prerequisites and requirements. This organization had been using Autopilot for a few years without any issues, and then, seemingly out of
Autopilot Registered, Profile Assigned… but still getting Generic OOBE Read More »
Most organizations are fine using the built-in autocorrect options in Microsoft Word. AutoCorrect will automatically fix commonly misspelled or mistyped words. For example, you may mistakenly type “teh” instead of “the”. AutoCorrect will automatically correct “teh” to “the” for you. The dictionary of autocomplete settings can be found in Word > File > Options >
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If you’re using Entra Connect and you’re planning to eliminate Active Directory, you’ll eventually need to remove Entra Connect and convert all users to cloud-managed identities. Entra Connect synchronizes your AD identities with Entra, giving the users a cloud identity in addition to their on-prem identity. However, AD remains the source of authority for management.
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