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 […]
From COM to Web: Managing Microsoft 365 App Add‑Ins Read More »
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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The Microsoft Print to PDF printer should be enabled by default on any Windows 11 PC. I don’t rely on this printer and don’t know many people who do, but it’s a nice bonus to have it available, and some users rely on it. If the print to PDF printer is not enabled, it’s usually
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If you didn’t already know, per user MFA can cause issues when connecting to Entra-Joined Azure virtual machines. Specifically, AVD and Windows 365 instances. When this happens, you will get an error when signing in like this: That error is almost always pointing to one of two things: I had an interesting situation where we
Over the last few weeks, several posts have been made about the release of the Windows 11 24H2 security baselines. If you’re unfamiliar with security baselines, they’re a pre-configured set of security settings based on Microsoft’s best security practices. Applying all security baseline settings, especially in an existing environment, can cause chaos and problems for
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