A blog about End User Computing (EUC)
Stefan Dingemanse and I built a Powershell Module to deploy Windows 365 more easily. We wanted a new challenge. Stefan looked at the Powershell Gallery and there wasn’t a Windows 365 module. So, we decided to build one. The module is available at the Powershell Gallery Full documentation is available on Github. The Github page … Read more
I am currently deploying Windows 365 and want to use a custom image. Firstly, I used the Azure Marketplace Windows 11 22h2 enterprise image. The performance was terrible. I checked again, but I couldn’t find it. I got a hint that you must register the Windows 365 Cloud PC images in your Azure environment. This … Read more
I had the pleasure to implement Windows Autopatch at a customer of mine and I want to share my notes from the field. This customer uses around 250 laptop laptops and they wanted to deploy autopatch to have less management overhead on updates for their Windows-based laptops. I really like this customer because there are … Read more
This blog is about using Packer and YAML to create a Windows 365 Image. This is an add-on to the first blog in the series on Packer. Prerequisites Make sure you have completed the first blog in this series: Packer YAML Azure DevOps Pipeline Pt. 1 – Create the Packer YAML Pipeline After that, you … Read more
This is a blog post on request. Someone commented on another post (Create Autopilot Profile Powershell) that they would like a script to create a Domain Join Profile in Intune via Powershell. Some of you need to create more than 10 of these profiles. (Some even more than a 100!) I thought that was interesting! … Read more
I wrote a script to gather the Windows 10 AutoPilot hardware hash and receive this via e-mail. The current user’s Outlook profile sends the e-mail. The e-mail is available in sent items if you want to view it later. Prerequisites The user is local admin on the device where you want to gather the Windows … Read more
We all know the case where a user is migrated, misses permissions but doesn’t know which mailbox it was. I created a script that initiates a search for specific mailbox permissions for each mailbox. After that, it exports the mailboxes to CSV if the user has permission on that mailbox. Prerequistes As always, you need … Read more
Packer is a great tool to build images. This blog is about using YAML to build your Packer Azure DevOps Pipeline. When using YAML, it is very easy to replicate your pipeline to other Azure DevOps organizations. This post is about adding the managed image to the Azure Compute Gallery. Prerequisites You need to have … Read more
I created an Endpoint Manager Packaging Script Pt.2 which downloads the installer, packages it, uploads it to Intune and assigns it. But first things first, credits to Nickolaj Andersen and his module who made it all possible. This is part 2 where we create a packaging pipeline. If you have not read Part 1, please … Read more
So, Windows 11 is happening. What now? In this blog I will talk about how to block the windows 11 upgrade via Endpoint Manager. Not everybody is ready to upgrade to Windows 11. For example, legacy applications are not tested yet and the adoption program for Windows 11 has not started yet. I created a … Read more