Don’t ever say Microsoft doesn’t listen! One of my biggest pet peeves was solved at the beginning of the month when Microsoft announced the ability to edit device group tags! This doesn’t sound like much, but it essentially unlocks the potential of group tags that was never really there before – we can now use group tags to dynamically control device group membership. While there have been quite a …
I’m a big fan of using Start-Transcript in my application install wrappers as it provides a very neat and tidy way to capture the output of everything that happens during the installation process and as such, all of the applications I package end up storing log files locally and I passionately and repeatedly urge my support staff to view these log files to identify issues during deployment. However, not …
One of the most common questions I get asked about Intune & Modern Device Management is “Would it be possible to do X with Intune?” With the native support to deploy and run PowerShell scripts in either user or system contexts, this allows my answer to always be “Yes! We can do anything you want – you just need to decide on how much time you wish to invest …
Another quick post – I’ve been doing some work with silent configuration of OneDrive and the new Known Folder Migration GPO solution all being deployed via Intune for multiple clients. One thing that is required for the KFM solution is the Azure Tenant Id. Being the nerd I am, I wanted to see if I could get the Id without having to log in to the tenant. After a quick search, …
This is a quick one – an improvement on an almost perfect script that doesn’t quite work how it should. the script Set-RegistryValueForAllUsers.ps1 found on the TechNet Gallery has one major fault. If you try and apply more than one value at a time, the last applied value is overwritten, leaving you at the end of the script with the last value and nothing else. Very simple change, but …
TWO LINES???!!! you bet!! One of my biggest gripes over the last few years with IT blogs and general talk of working with Azure & PowerShell is how much time is wasted on talking about how to authenticate into Azure\Graph\AAD. I’d suggest it is one of the harder hurdles to getting into the modern DevOps way of working. OAuth & OAuth 2 can be a very daunting thing and …
In my last post, I showed you how to move a very common task – authenticating into the GraphAPI, up into an Azure Function App. Now that our authentication function has been turned into a REST Endpoint, we can stop focusing on how we get authenticated and start doing some really interesting stuff inside the environment. Case in point, myself and a colleague @OnPremCloudGuy were wondering if we could …
I’m sure lots of us out there in the IT world have spent some time with PowerBI with varying degrees of headache-inducing successes. I know myself that working with fairly flat data sources, you can very easily create some incredible reports that will make you look like a data wizard to even the most jaded manager out there, however once you want to start working with complex data sets …
Hi All, I know most people out there cringe at the thought of spending time packaging applications for deployment, but unfortunately I seem to be a sucker for punishment and really do revel in the challenges faced with application packaging! Here’s a nice and easy one that will help anyone tasked with getting the latest version of the Teams client onto devices – whether using SCCM or Intune, you …