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Bug: Windows 11 and the Mysterious Missing Notifications Menu
I recently stumbled upon an interesting pair of Windows issue while working on this project, both pertaining to the Windows 11 Notifications menu. One of them has been identified in the past but the information I found pertained to Windows 10 where the issue isn’t as bad. For that reason, I thought it worth talking…
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Using Visual Studio Code to Write, Edit, and Locally Test PowerShell Azure Function Apps
Azure Function apps are great. They are currently (to my knowledge) the only decent gateway to upload or pull information out of Azure from client devices via PowerShell, that is without needing to store things like secret keys directly in your code which obviously you don’t want to do. There are currently two main methods…
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Saving a Buck by Temporarily Disabling Application Insights
This post will discuss the topic of disabling Application Insights on a Function App when not needed in order to save money. I decided this would be best to have as its own post given the amount of post’s I will likely have around Function Apps. This way, I can easily reference back to this…
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Using Azure Blob Storage to Host Media for Intune Wallpaper Policy and PowerShell
Gone are the days of storing local media files for use in things like scripts and wallpapers. With Intune, the only option you have to get a piece of media onto a device is packaging a custom Win32 app along side some scripting. While this can often be useful or in some cases the only…
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Windows Toast Notification Based Password Expiration Reminders
Unfortunately, even as of February 2023, Microsoft still doesn’t have a good solution (or really any solution) to provide employees on Azure joined devices with notifications about the fact that their password will soon expire. This is an unpleasant surprise for anyone who is used to their old local domain joined devices and the simple…
Azure to the Max 