A blog about End User Computing (EUC)
This is my latest training exercise, building configuration drift control for Microsoft Intune with PowerShell and the pester module. I wanted to be able to check my clients configuration against my own baseline for Microsoft Intune. Of course, there are many tools out there that can do this for you. Like Andrew Taylor’s EUCToolbox. It’s … Read more
I switched to MacOS a couple of years ago. When I talked about that with someone who also switched to MacOS, he told me switched back because he missed some productivity tools. So, I thought I write about the ones I use to get my ultimate productivity workflow (and hope he switched back, lol) Let’s … Read more
A customer of mine wanted to offboard their servers from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, I wrote a quick offboarding script. This is the same customer where I configured passive mode (link) first but we figured out that it would cost to much to run it in passive mode. It’s around 5 dollar per server per … Read more
So, a customer of mine wanted to install Hyper V and add the current user to Hyper V administrators. They wanted to use Hyper V on their Intune Managed Devices to use virtual machines to have a test device in Intune and a sequencing machine to develop application packages and App Control policies. TLDR: The … Read more
A colleague of mine contacted me about slow logon times for Windows 365 Cloud Pc’s. Every next day he reported that the logon took about 3 – 5 minutes. I also asked around in the community and this is not normal behaviour. It should be like 30 seconds to logon. So, we got ourselves something … Read more
I recently had the privilege of implementing Windows 365 boot but encountered error 65000. This had to do with the Windows 365 Boot Device Configuration Policy Boot profile: The picture above clearly states the “Boot to Cloud PC Enhanced” setting return the error 65000. So, where does this error come from? I met the prerequisites: … Read more
Sometimes you need a quick and dirty fix. That quick and dirty fix might be to set the host(s) file via Intune on a Windows 10/11 machine. I needed that fix. So, I used a remediation to do so. It is quite an easy solution. It uses a detection and a remediation script. Save these … Read more
This is a quick blog about Palo Alto Global Protect VPN via Microsoft Intune with the Microsoft Edge browser. A customer wants to connect IOS devices with Palo Alto Global Protect VPN with certificated-based authentication and username/password + MFA. As a result, only devices that have a certain configuration can access the VPN. So, I … Read more
So, quick blog about the situation where you can’t create an AVD hostpooltoken. A bicep API version causes this error. This is the error you see in the Azure Virtual Desktop hostpool portal: This is the error stated by the portal: Error: Cannot retrieve token for Hostpool ‘hostpoolname’ because it is not of Hostpool management … Read more
Another post about WDAC, this time about the deployment of Teams Add-In for Microsoft Office. You can find the other post here. The Problem This also has a problem installing with the default WDAC configuration. You can see this in the Application event log: Product: Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office — Error 1723. … Read more