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Force Password Change at Next Sign-in for Entra Connect Synchronized Identities

Here’s a quick tip if you’re using Microsoft Entra Connect (Azure AD Connect) to sync your user identities, and you need to enforce a password change for users at the next logon. This can be useful if your user identities are all synced from AD but you have a mixed bag of devices with PCs […]

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

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

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

***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

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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