This is a quick post, but useful for anyone who has not stamped out basic authentication in their environment. Or perhaps you’ve inherited several new clients, or need to identify this across many clients. In any case, you can always use the manual method of signing into the Azure GUI and filtering sign-in logs, which […]
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Microsoft recently brought back the Windows 365 Cloud PC trial, and with limited Windows 365 experience, this was my chance to get some hand-on experience for free. With AVD and Windows 365 really looking like the future of large scale VDI, I wanted to do some benchmarking on the hardware, test RDP Short path for
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If you use Teams as a collaboration tool, you or your clients may have outside businesses they collaborate with. The traditional way to add outside users is to add them as guest users, and then give them permissions to your Teams/Channels. However, what if this is a long term project, you have numerous departments or
A quick summary on User/System context for app deployments I see posts about this on Reddit pretty often. Usually the OP is trying to copy a configuration file to the target user’s appdata folder. They run the script manually on a workstation, and it all works fine, but when they try deploying it through Intune,
Intro This post was inspired by a question posted to the Modern Endpoint Management LinkedIn group about syncing/backing up users’ teams backgrounds to OneDrive. I work with Teams a lot, so this was something I was interested in solving. Teams backgrounds are stored in the user’s %appdata% folder. So, the challenge was to sync the
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Intune does not have a native way to create scheduled tasks, but we can still deploy them to machines by using a Win32 app. If you don’t have the licensing to use proactive remediations, we can use this as a workaround to get some similar results (but without any native reporting in Intune). So, for
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Intro This post is for autopilot newbies or for anyone who wants a review of manually enrolling devices. In most cases, we try to use scripted automation for existing device enrollment. I have a few posts on some various ways to do this here, here, and here. If you have an RMM and numerous devices
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A couple months ago I posted how you can upload autopilot hardware hash files directly to blob storage from your target machines – https://smbtothecloud.com/upload-autopilot-hardware-hashes-to-azure-blob-storage/. I wanted to try automating as much of the remaining process as possible and found myself down a rabbit hole. This solution is probably overkill to gather hardware hash files, but
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