Category: Windows 11
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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…
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Building Golden Images for Hyper-V Lab Testing
Hyper-V is a wonderful thing, as I really don’t like having 16 laptops and chargers around me to perform testing on. No, I much prefer creating a VM, using checkpoints, blowing them up, and recreating them or reverting them as needed. For a long time, I had a simple process to create Golden Images for…
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Automating Disk Space Alerts with Intune Proactive Remediations
Intro: One of the age-old issues we in IT face is a machine running low on disk space. At best, this causes devices to become unstable, struggle to apply patches, and loose overall system (and employee) performance. At worst, it takes the device offline incurring downtime and potentially data loss. Thanks to ever-larger and cheaper…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints Part 1.8: Application Inventory Workbook
Introduction: With your data now ingesting into Log Analytics, granted the collectors not yet deployed, we are ready to begin setting up our workbooks to further confirm data is coming in properly. Now done with deploying your Admin Inventory and Device Inventory workbook, let’s knock out the final one – Application Inventory. Note: It would be a good…
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Bug: Windows 11 KB5027231 + (some) AV is Breaking Google Chrome
Here’s one hot off the presses. Getting right into it, here is what I have to share. I will update this article as the issue and information progresses. What is happening? Today we started seeing a handful of reports that Google Chrome would not launch on devices. As the day went on, this number started…
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Bug: Zoom VDI + Screen Capture Protection = Blank Zoom
So, this is going to be an interesting post. I don’t know for fact if this is an issue others are facing, it could be self-inflicted. However, all testing doesn’t suggest this and ultimately, I would rather write something and have nobody else experience it than say nothing while others suffer in confusion like we…
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Automating the Conversion of Intune Group Tags for Windows 11 Upgrades Part 3: Client Side Script
Following my last post, this part will cover the deployment of the client-side script as well as detail how it works and how you can adjust it. I have written about the topic of deploying scripts via proactive remediations a few times now such as for the Log Analytics side. The deployment itself will be…
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Automating the Conversion of Intune Group Tags for Windows 11 Upgrades Part 2: Function App
Following my last post, this part will cover the deployment of the Function App as well as gathering of the values from the Function App we will need for the next part. Update:Following my recent post on Security Updates for HTTP(s) Function Apps, I have started off by updating the Windows 11 Group Tag Conversion (GTC)…
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Automating the Conversion of Intune Group Tags for Windows 11 Upgrades Part 1: Overview
I have a fun one to talk about today. This is the first part in a three-part series which covers the use of PowerShell and an Azure Function App to automatically change over Windows 11 devices to a new group tag post upgrading from Windows 10. This is something I have had cooking for a…
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Murdering Windows 11 Performance by Disabling Windows Defender – What Not to Do.
This is the story of how a rather innocent seeming policy, a policy which many other blogs “suggest” (to one degree or another), can absolutely destroy Windows 11 performance. This issue can slow the machine down by an order of magnitude – under the right conditions. This issue took me the better part of a…
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