Windows Update for Business – A (Potential) Feature Update bug…

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In my last company-wide deployment of the Windows 10/11 22H2 feature update, I had this strange issue where a very small percentage of devices failed to upgrade. I recently wrote about how I do Feature Upgrades at my organisation and in that post, I describe how I use dynamic groups to ensure that all of my devices have the required feature update profile assigned. However a very small number of devices persisted in not having the recent Feature Upgrade offered to them. I spent many hours looking at data in the Windows Update for Business Workbook in Azure monitoring as…

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…

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…

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…