Category: Intune
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Log Analytics for Windows Application Usage Monitoring Part 1.1: Technical Details and Limitations
Introduction: In my initial article of this series, I mentioned that there were a few asterisks, footnotes, limitations, and caveats to understand with this solution. Luckily, this is again much less of a concern than it was with the System Usage & Authentication Monitoring series as this collector isn’t targeting nearly the volume of event…
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PR for Detecting Faulty Notepad++ Upgrades
Introduction: I might be a bit behind the wave here, but I wanted to provide something to the community that has helped in my world. As I am sure many folks are already aware, there were a host of vulnerabilities recently found and patched in Notepad++. Those include CVE-2023-40031, CVE-2023-40036, CVE-2023-40164, CVE-2023-40166 which you can…
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Log Analytics for Windows Endpoint System Usage & Authentication Monitoring Part 1.6: Deploying the Script
Introduction: With your data ingesting and workbooks deployed, we are now ready to start deploying the collector via Proactive Remediations in Intune. This will likely be the final article in this series, at least for now. In this section, we will cover… Requirements: This should be pretty obvious, but you need to have completed the setup…
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Log Analytics for Windows Endpoint System Usage & Authentication Monitoring Part 1.3: Configure Event Auditing and Power Settings
As explained, the System Usage monitoring makes use of Windows Event logs for data gathering. While the Event Log has a ton of useful information by default, some events only log when enabled via an additional policy. Additionally, some won’t log at all until certain power settings are changed (See part 1.1, startup and shutdown…
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Log Analytics for Windows Endpoint System Usage & Authentication Monitoring Part 1.0: Overview
Introduction: For those of you familiar with my work on Log Analytics, you know that I have at several times throughout several articles touted the ability for PowerShell to pull Windows Events, including those from the Security log which the now old Log Analytics agent could not do. And, unfortunately, the new AMA has other…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints Part 1.9: Deploying the Collector Script via Proactive Remediations
Introduction: With your data ingesting and workbooks deployed, we are now ready to start to deploy the collector out via Proactive Remediations in Intune. This will likely be the final article in this series, at least for now. To be clear, I mean just the Windows Endpoints series for App/Device/Admin Inventory. There are quite a…
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Block Office “Add a Place” Menu 3rd-Party Apps
Here is an interesting one. If you go into Word/Excel/PowerPoint/ETC – there is an option under Save As, Add a Place which has a multitude of 3rd party site options you can use to connect Office apps directly to those locations. As of writing I see Box, Egnyte, OpenText Content Cloud, and ShareFile (Beta). I…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints Part 1.2: Admin Inventory Overview
Introduction: Following my initial article in the series, this article will cover an overview of the Admin Inventory component of this collector / workbook with a primary focus on what this tool does for you and how the data is visualized in the workbooks. In this section we will cover… Prior Knowledge Requirement: I don’t want to…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints Part 1.0: Device Inventory Overview
Introduction: This is the start of something big. Those familiar with my work on Log Analytics probably have realized I seem to know a lot but haven’t put out a ton of useable items yet. Those familiar with the work my work is based on, that being Jan Ketil Skanke of MSEndpointMGR team and his…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows 365 Monitoring Part 2.3: Workbook, Collector Deployment
This will be the last part of this guide. Here we will be deploying and modifying the workbook to match your environment as well as going over the deployment of the collectors and some of the options within them to configure how they function. Note: If you followed the V1 version of this series, you…
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