If you need to migrate FSLogix profiles to a new storage account, Microsoft makes this very easy using the azcopy tool. You can also use Robocopy like we did back in the days of file server migrations, but azcopy is significantly faster. If you encounter an AVD environment that is using a transaction-optimized storage account […]
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I recently ran into an issue with a client when trying to capture a new AVD image. When trying to sysprep the VM before image capture, we were receiving the below error – “Sysprep was not able to validate your Windows Installation. Review the log file at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Panther\setupact.log” The above error on its own is
With the New Teams app being GA, organizations will eventually move from “Teams Classic” to the “New Teams” app. There are several reasons to make the switch, the biggest reason likely being the performance benefits. As I’ve been testing the new teams, I realized that custom backgrounds that were manually added, or added via remediations,
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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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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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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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After getting some questions recently about deploying S1 with Intune and noticing some documentation still instructing people to use an MSI LOB app (ew), I made a quick guide on how to deploy the S1 agent to Windows workstations. Hope this helps.
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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
