Gannon Novak

The Moving Target of Removing McAfee products with Intune

There are a couple of blogs out there regarding removing McAfee products with Intune. Those solutions have always worked for me in the past, until recently. Specifically, this post by Mr Tbone. It walks through the removal process using the McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool (MCPR) with a PowerShell script and a Win32 app. As […]

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Exclude Devices with Grouptags from the All Autopilot Devices Dynamic Group 

I take a step back on this post and revisit Autopilot v1. Although Autopilot Device Preparation is likely the future of Autopilot, it still lacks many of the features of Autopilot v1, and Autopilot v1 isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. Especially until Autopilot Device prep can support pre-provisioning and self-deploying profiles. If you read the

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Moving from Classic to New Teams on AVD and a script to automate it

Intro If an organization is using AVD, there’s a very high likelihood they’re also using Teams. As most of you probably know, Teams went through a transformation around a year ago where a new Teams client was built and became GA. The original Teams application became known as “Classic Teams” and the newly build Teams

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APv2: Using a Device Name Template & Forcing a Reboot after the ESP (Autopilot Device Preparation)

Many of us have been testing the new Windows Autopilot Device Preparation Policies (or Apv2, whichever you want to call it). Don’t worry, this is not another blog on how to configure APv2. There are tons of those already out there. I’ve been testing this over the last week and my testing has been mostly

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Deploy the SonicWall Global VPN client + Configuration Settings with Intune

Yes, some organizations still rely on client VPNs for access to on prem resources. Hopefully, if you find yourself in this situation, you’re moving towards Entra joining your devices, and have a plan to eventually remove your on-prem AD reliant resources. Until then, you need to deploy a client VPN to your workstations. This post

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