Intune Proactive Remediation

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If Intune filters was my favourite new Intune feature of 2021, Proactive Remediations is fast becoming my favourite for 2022. I’m starting to use this feature a lot at work and its starting to replace the Win32 app method to deploy a configuration as well ensuring it remains set. I’ve also previously blogged about how to remove the “Teams Personal” app that keeps returning in Windows 11, especially after patching/feature updating (It’s a lot more noticeable on the Windows Insider builds). So, after using Intune PowerShell and then switching to Win32 app, I find that it’s third time lucky with…

How I Feature Update Windows

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It’s been a few weeks since 22H2 has been released for both Windows 10 and Window 11, and after validation by both my Windows Insiders and my early adopters, I am ready to deploy this Feature Update to all of my managed Windows devices at work. I thought it could be useful to blog about how I do Feature Updates using Intune and Windows Update for Business Deployment Services taking advantage of the Intelligent Rollout feature. I can cover how I set up my Windows Insider for Business rings in a later blog post if that also interests anyone. For…

The new Quick Assist…  Not quite ready for Prime Time

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So this weekend, I sat down knowing I needed to blog. It has been almost EIGHT weeks since I’ve written one, and that’s really too long. I have a few draft blogs which are starting to take the form of a series that my friend MVP Darrell Webster helped name “How I stay Intune”, but the last few months have been very busy (Work, home life – I’m a 100% single parent) and burn out is becoming a very real reality for me right now. So after seeing that Microsoft had released a new version of Quick Assist, and reading…

Ensuring the Device Name for Windows Intune managed devices is set to Serial Number

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A while ago, I wrote a blog around Restricting the Local Admin group with Intune.  In that blog, I mentioned some scenarios where certain Windows Autopilot configurations may not have worked correctly for one reason or another.  That blog focused on the Local Admins group, but I did note the device Computer Name, so I thought I would follow up with a blog on this. I have mentioned in a past blog that I am a fan of using the serial number of a device as its Device Name in Intune.  The Windows Autopilot deployment Profile is a great and simple…

Deploy DMG app to Intune managed macOS devices

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Earlier this year, Microsoft released the public preview of Intune DMG deployments to managed macOS devices. This has been very timly with the work I’m currently doing with macOS devices. The documentation sets out how to do this, but I thought I would document my experiences with this type of deployment. The first thing I gathered is the detection method.  This can be done in multiple ways. If you have a macOS device, start by mounting the DMG image file On the app, I right click and selected Show Package Contents In the Contents folder, there should be an info.plist…

Set Desktop Wallpaper for macOS Intune managed devices

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Recently I blogged about configuring the device name of an Intune managed macOS Device. Following on from this, I thought I would share how I was able to deploy a desktop wallpaper image to Intune managed macOS devices. If you’re already deploying wallpapers to Intune managed Windows devices, then you will most likely have a wallpaper image in a publicly downloadable place (Azure Blob storage etc.). but if not, you will need to set this first. Because I am already deploying and setting a wallpaper image for Windows devices, I will use the same wallpaper image and URL for deploying…

Set Device Name to Serial Number for macOS Intune managed devices

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Recently at work, we started to introduce some new Apple macOS devices.  As part of enhancing the employee experience, I decided to incorporate Apple Business Manager to help with onboarding macOS devices along with improving management of these devices with Intune. I’m planning to blog a bit on some of the basic configurations to get these devices going, but as I haven’t blogged in a while, I wanted to do a quick one on two useful configurations (the second one will come in my next blog post). I’m a big fan of using serial numbers as a naming convention for…

Installing Windows ‘C release’ updates with Intune

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Today, Microsoft released the Windows 11 January 2022 Preview (or ‘C release’) update.  This update fixes a crucial VPN issue I have been assisting Microsoft with.  The issue it fixes is the stability of the Intune deployed VPN profile (every time the device syncs with Intune, the VPN would either appear or disappear). As ‘C release’ updates are not available via Windows Update for Business so I have a challenge to deploy this update to my Windows 11 users. I decided to take the .msu update file and wrap it as an Win32 app to deploy using Microsoft Intune I…

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…