Overview This blog covers something that ended up taking wayyyy more time and energy than I thought it would, and taught me that configuring location settings on Windows 11 is far more complicated than you’d think. This all started with a client who told me they couldn’t get location services enabled on their devices. This […]
Triple Threat Match: Location Services vs Autopilot vs Intune Read More »
If you work for an MSP with dozens of clients, you probably have a helpdesk that users from those clients call for help. When that happens, the Help Desk associates may need to connect to that user’s PC. Depending on your RMM, it may be difficult to locate the user’s device without the hostname. This
Display the Hostname on the Desktop with Intune and BGInfo Read More »
Overview As much as I dislike printers, many organizations still rely on them. It often becomes a conversation when converting devices to be cloud-native and managed by Intune. My general recommendation is that if there is a large fleet of printers, use a cloud-based printing solution for managing printers. It will be easier to manage
PrintServerToIntune – Migrate Printers to Intune as TCP/IP Connections Read More »
I recently helped a new client with an existing Azure infrastructure and conducted an analysis of how they could reduce their Azure spend. This was a smaller organization without many resources, but their most expensive resource was an RDS server running 24/7, but their working hours were only 8 AM – 5 PM. The compute
RDP Broke Every Morning After an Azure VM Start Task Read More »
Many situations have use cases for kiosk-type devices that need more functionality than a single-app kiosk. For those use cases, we steer towards shared devices or multi-app kiosks (now configured using assigned access). Back in the Windows 10 days, there was an actual multi-app kiosk profile template that we could use in Intune, but Microsoft
Auto-logon for Assigned Access and What Breaks It Read More »
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
How to in-place upgrade your Azure Windows Servers Read More »
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
Fixing the Microsoft Print to PDF Printer with Intune Read More »
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
