2021 Daylight Savings change in Fiji – Update (and fix for Microsoft Teams)

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***2022 Update*** The Fijian Government have suspended Daylight Savings in Fiji in 2022 – The information provided in this post was thought to be able to be reused for 2022, however reports of Teams and Outlook calendars being incorrect by one hour showed that this workaround is no longer valid. The original post to keep the timezone set to Fiji but set the Adjust for daylight savings time automatically toggle setting to off has been tested and appears to be working. In a previous blog, I wrote about how to implement the Microsoft recommended mitigation for the 2021 change to…

Remote Help – The new remote support app from Microsoft

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For many years now, natively managed Intune devices (i.e. not co-managed with Config Manager) have had one problematic issue – Remote support. In several places I’ve worked, remote viewing and control via Microsoft Teams has been an option, however for many support people, being able to perform tasks with elevated access has not been possible.  The only supported methods have been the Config Manager remote control tool (meaning co-management) or Team Viewer.  Quick assist has also been considered, but like Microsoft Teams, the inability to elevate access to perform tasks is also an issue. At the recent 2021 Microsoft Ignite…

2021 Daylight Savings change in Fiji

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I work at a company which is New Zealand based, but also has offices and people in eight Pacific Island countries, one of these being Fiji. I was recently made aware of a change to Fiji’s Daylight Savings in 2021 – in a nutshell, the Fijian government has decided to put Daylight Savings on hold for 2021-22. Normally, Microsoft would issue an update for Windows but due to the insufficient time available, a patch is unlikely to be released before the original start of daylight savings on 14 November 2021. This means that Windows devices in the Fijian time zone…

(Updated) Removing Teams Chat from the taskbar with Intune

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about using a CSP setting in a custom Intune Configuration Profile to remove Teams Chat from the taskbar. This process works well and can still be used, but as the world of modern workplace is always changing, so I thought it might be useful to also document that this setting is now available to configure and deploy via the Settings Catalog. I thought I would try this out in my lab so I have removed the previous Custom CSP Intune Configuration Profile deployment I can see on my Windows 11 device, the Teams Chat…

Removing the Built-in Microsoft Teams app with Intune – Take Two (a better approach)

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Update – 28 November 2022 – Check out this blog for a better way to remove the Windows 11 built in Teams app In my last blog post, I wrote about using Win32 Apps as a better alternative to the Intune PowerShell feature for configuration changes. I also recently wrote about how to remove the new built-in Microsoft Teams app. My friend Loryan Strant (Check out his awesome wisdom here) reached out and mentioned that he has seen some occurrences of the built-in Teams app reappearing some time after the PowerShell Script has been run to remove the App. So…

Using Intune Win32 Apps instead of Intune PowerShell Scripts

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Update – 28 November 2022 – Check out this blog for a for another approach to do this using the Proactive Remediation feature (The example used in that blog is removing the Windows 11 built in Teams app). I am in the process of switching a number of my Win32 apps to proactive remediations now. Sometimes, you just need to deploy a one off setting or configuration quickly, and the Intune PowerShell feature can be very handy to do this.  I have used this a lot to run PowerShell scripts on my managed Windows 10 and 11 Endpoints to do…

Removing the Windows 11 Xbox App with Intune

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When managing Windows 10 devices, I use a handy script in Intune that removes a number of inbox apps that come built-in to Windows.  Recently l wrote about removing the Teams Personal app, but another app almost slipped past me. The Xbox app.  It had me a little bit confused as I thought my existing script to remove inbox apps covered all the Xbox apps.  However, it looks like there is a new Xbox app in Windows 11 To find this new Xbox app, I used the following command to get a list of all Appx packages installed. I was…

Removing Teams Chat from the taskbar with Intune

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Windows 11 comes with a built-in version of Microsoft Teams.  I have written a blog detailing how to remove this with Intune, but there is also a Teams Chat icon that still remains pinned to the taskbar. Microsoft have released a CSP to allow the Chat icon on the taskbar to be configured I created the following Custom Configuration Profile in Intune Profile Name Win 11 – Custom – Policy CSP – Experience – ConfigureChatIcon Profile Description Disabled Teams Chat Icon OMA-URI Settings Name ConfigureChatIcon Description ConfigureChatIcon OMA-URI ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Experience/ConfigureChatIcon Data Type Integer Value 3 There options available for value are…

Removing the Built-in Microsoft Teams app with Intune

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Update – 28 November 2022 – Check out this blog for a better way to remove the Windows 11 built in Teams app With Windows 11, Microsoft Teams is now available as a built in app… which is great! But at the time of writing this post, you cannot use the Microsoft Teams built-in app with a Work or School account…  not great. Many business managed devices that have been upgraded to Windows 11 will also still have the Teams Machine-Wide Installer version of Microsoft Teams, resulting in the user the experience of two versions of Microsoft Teams in the…

Upgrade to Windows 11 using Feature Updates in Intune

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Today marks the General Availability of Windows 11. Along with this there is an update to the Feature updates for Windows 10 and later (Preview) feature in Intune to assist with upgrading Intune managed devices to Window 11. I have previously used the Feature Updates feature to control deployment of Feature Updates outside of my Windows Insider for Business channels Before I get into how I have configured this for Windows 11, it may be useful to see how I have done this previously for Windows 10. Below I have two Feature Update profiles.  Win 10 – Feature Updates Deployment…