Category: Windows 11
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Out of Control Capability Access Manager.db-Wal File Size
Quick Audience Clarification:This is a professional IT enterprise-focused blog. I’ve had several home-type / non-IT folks reach out with this issue, looking for solutions. If that is you, I’d recommend checking out these Microsoft QA posts on the same topic:CapabilityAccessManager is devouring my hard drive – Microsoft Q&AWhy is Capability Access Manager growing 1.9GB/day on…
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How, and more importantly, why, you should disable the Default Autopilot ESP
You know what I don’t care for? Half-managed, broken devices getting into Intune, resulting in employees’ devices having to be wiped and set back up. Nobody likes that, it stinks for everyone, and today I’m here to talk about one way that can happen and what you should do about it. I will quickly say,…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints: Beta Inventory V1.3, Appx Installs
Howdy folks, I hope everyone is doing well. I’ve got a happy announcement for today. I’ve officially posted a Beta version 1.3 of the Windows Endpoint inventory script which adds support for Appx package installs. To be clear, this is still in Beta. I will likely be tweaking the workbook and collection script further, but…
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MSI Installer Error 1612: Missing MSI Local Cache
This is one of those articles that I actually hope nobody gets any use out of, because if you are getting use out of it, you’re not having a good day. This article is to cover the MSI Installer error 1612 and, more specifically, an Intune remediation I created to help understand the scope of…
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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…
Azure to the Max 