Gannon Novak

Remove Any Installed Version of Microsoft Office When Deploying M365 Desktop Apps

| | Intune

Deploying the Microsoft Office 365 desktop apps has become an easy task with Intune. This is especially true for environments where all machines are being replaced or wiped, and enrolled via Autopilot. However, not everything can be that easy. What if you encounter an environment with hundreds or thousands of PCs with various versions of […]

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Removing Windows Hello (WHfB) as a sign-in method when it’s already configured on devices

| | Intune, Windows

I’ll start this post by saying I do not endorse disabling Windows Hello for Business. There are big benefits to using WHfB, and I recommend using it. But, different organizations have different desires. So, this post will describe how to remove Windows Hello as an authentication method on workstations. To clarify – how to remove

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Hybrid Device Join – What Happens Behind the Scenes

| | Azure, Windows

I recently had a situation I hadn’t encountered before while moving a client to Hybrid Device Join + Intune (or Entra ID Join, HAADJ, EIDJ, or whatever you want to call it these days). This involved both firewall settings and configuration manager blocking device registration (see Ben’s post here for more on that Co-management Series

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Deploy Organizational Teams Backgrounds without Teams Premium licenses – Azure Storage Account + Intune Remediations

| | Azure, Intune, Teams

***A new post covering how to do this for New Teams is available here – Deploy Custom Backgrounds to New Teams with Remediations – SMBtotheCloud A client recently wanted to deploy organizational backgrounds to all Teams users. However, this is now a Teams Premium feature, which is an additional cost per user per month (Custom

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Dynamically add Device Extension Attributes using Remediations

| | Azure, Intune, Windows

Intro Every couple of weeks I see a Reddit post or question asking about device group memberships or filters for certain properties that Azure AD doesn’t natively contain. One common request is making a dynamic group for all desktops or all laptops. There may be other specific properties about your devices that Azure AD doesn’t

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