Windows

Keep Teams Machine-Wide-Installer Updated on AVD (or other VDI) with Intune Remediations 

You may or may not know that there is a specific way to install Teams when using a VDI solution. AVD is what I end up working with in almost every situation, so this article is catered to AVD. However, this solution can be used for any VDI solution that uses the Teams machine-wide installer. […]

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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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Hybrid Device Join – What Happens Behind the Scenes

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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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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Resolve HAADJ Intune auto-enrollment errors for devices previously enrolled in MAM 

There never seems to be a shortage of issues when dealing with Hybrid Azure AD Joined + Intune Enrolling endpoints. Especially when you inherit a setup and have no history of what was implemented in the past. I encountered a new issue the other day and figured I’d made a quick post. In this situation,

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Naming Hybrid Azure AD Joined Autopilot Devices Automatically using a Custom prefix and Serial Number

Naming Hybrid Joined devices during autopilot has always been very limited. You can’t use variables like %SERIAL% to add the serial number to the device name. You’re basically stuck using a prefix and a randomly generated string of characters. That’s not the best naming convention and it usually adds an additional step for IT admins

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Automate a Reboot or Custom Script When the Autopilot ESP is Complete

Introduction Sometimes you end up discovering pretty neat things as a result of working on an unrelated issue. That’s how this post was born. I have been working on a way to rename hybrid AADJ devices during Autopilot to use their serial number for several weeks (I’ll have that post finished in a week or

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