Category: Windows
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Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 1
This Article Has Been Retired! Warning: I have chosen to “retire” this article. As time has marched on, and more information has been revealed, the blogs in this series have slowly become less and less up-to-date, and frankly, more and more of the information I was told as gospel has proved flawed or muddied. As…
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Fixed – Enterprise Subscription Activation Broken by KB5036893 & KB5036892
This Has Been Fixed as of August 2024: A preview fix came out in July as part of KB5040527 and KB5040525. That fix was then fully released as part of the August update KB5041585, although they didn’t copy over the above noted fix in the documentation from the preview update. I’ll leave the article up…
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Fixed – KB5034441 Causing Issue for WinRE
Clarification: This article is probably going to confuse a few people. Yes, this topic was previously being covered by an article dating back to May that covered both this issue and the Enterprise Activation update issue. The point of that article was to both discuss the recent update experience and the recent support experience. Unfortunately,…
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Log Analytics for Application Usage 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 Application Usage Monitoring Part 1.5: Importing the 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. Note: It would be a good idea to have at least a few devices manually ingest some data before starting this process. In this…
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Log Analytics for Application Usage Monitoring Part 1.4: Sample Data, Tables, DCRs, Initial Ingestion
Introduction: We have now covered what this solution does and its cost, at least from an ingestion standpoint. Now, we will finally be deploying something! In this article, we will generate our sample data, use it to create our new tables and DCRs, grant the appropriate permissions on those DCRs, and perform an initial ingestion!…
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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…
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Log Analytics for Application Usage Monitoring Part 1.2: Cost
Introduction: Following my initial articles describing what is collected, how it is displayed, this article will cover the cost of this solution. Before we start, please know that I am no Azure cost “expert.” I can point you in the right direction and provide examples, but you need to consult with Microsoft and your internal…
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Log Analytics for Windows Application Usage 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 faults which…
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Bug: March 2024 Surface Laptop Firmware Update Causing Incorrect System Time
Here’s a fresh bug hot off the presses. Getting right into it, here is what I have to share. If you also experience this issue, please comment! Update sections will be appended to the tail end of this article as news comes out. I’ll apologize in advance for any typos in this one – It’s…
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