Category: Policy

• Everything I Know on Subscription Activation

  Overview: Over the past few years, I have had to write far too many blogs on or surrounding the topic of Subscription Activation. Fixed – Enterprise Subscription Activation Broken by KB5036893 & KB5036892Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 1Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 2Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing…

  Max

  June 11, 2025

  Policy, PowerShell, Proactive Remediations, Subscription Activation, Update to my work, Windows, Windows 11

  0X87E10BF2, Azure, Intune, Microsoft, PowerShell, Proactive Remediations, Remediation, security, SingleTenantldExpectedForAadUsers, Windows, Windows 11, Work or School account

• Enterprise Only Windows Policies

  The History: You have no idea how much joy it brings me to be able to write this article. For years I have been deeply annoyed by the fact that Microsoft used to have a wonderful piece of documentation covering what polices could only be applied to an enterprise edition of Windows. You can still…

  Max

  May 13, 2025

  Intune, Policy, Subscription Activation

  Enterprise, Enterprise Only, Enterprise OS, Intune, Microsoft, Policy, Pro, security, Windows, Windows 11

• Log Analytics for Application Usage Monitoring Part 1.3: Configure Event Auditing

  As explained in prior articles, the Application Usage Monitoring makes use of Windows Event logs for data gathering. While the Event Log has a ton of useful information by default, the logs we need to capture for this tool to function are not logged by default and instead must be enabled via policy This article…

  Max

  April 9, 2024

  Log Analytics, Policy, Windows, Windows Events

  Auditing, Azure, Intune, Log Analytics, PowerShell, Proactive Remediations, Windows

• 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…

  Max

  September 8, 2023

  Intune, Log Analytics, Policy, Windows, Windows Events

  Intune, Policy, Settings Catalog, Windows, Windows Events

• 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…

  Max

  August 8, 2023

  Intune, Office, Policy, Windows

  Add a Place, Disable, Intune, Office, Policy, Windows