Tag: Intune
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Log Analytics for Windows Endpoint System Usage & Authentication 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…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints Part 1.9: Deploying the Collector Script via Proactive Remediations
Introduction: With your data ingesting and workbooks deployed, we are now ready to start to deploy the collector out via Proactive Remediations in Intune. This will likely be the final article in this series, at least for now. To be clear, I mean just the Windows Endpoints series for App/Device/Admin Inventory. There are quite a…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints Part 1.4: Cost
Introduction: Following my initial three intro articles describing what is collected and how it is displayed, this article will cover the cost of these solutions. In this section we will cover… The Purpose of this Article: In this article, I will specifically be discussing the Log Analytics Ingestion costs of these various collectors and NOT…
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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…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints Part 1.2: Admin Inventory Overview
Introduction: Following my initial article in the series, this article will cover an overview of the Admin Inventory component of this collector / workbook with a primary focus on what this tool does for you and how the data is visualized in the workbooks. In this section we will cover… Prior Knowledge Requirement: I don’t want to…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints Part 1.1: Application Inventory Overview
Introduction: Following my initial article in the series, this article will cover an overview of the Application Inventory component of this collector / workbook with a primary focus on what this tool does for you and how the data is visualized in the workbooks. In this section we will cover… Prior Knowledge Requirement: I don’t…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows Endpoints Part 1.0: Device Inventory Overview
Introduction: This is the start of something big. Those familiar with my work on Log Analytics probably have realized I seem to know a lot but haven’t put out a ton of useable items yet. Those familiar with the work my work is based on, that being Jan Ketil Skanke of MSEndpointMGR team and his…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows 365 Monitoring Part 2.3: Workbook, Collector Deployment
This will be the last part of this guide. Here we will be deploying and modifying the workbook to match your environment as well as going over the deployment of the collectors and some of the options within them to configure how they function. Note: If you followed the V1 version of this series, you…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows 365 Monitoring Part 2.1: Overview
Introduction: Following my Log Analytics Learning Series V2, this three-part series will provide you with the resources and information to guide you through the setup of Log Analytics for monitoring a Microsoft Windows 365 (Cloud PC) environment. A big shout out to some friends on the Windows 365 team at Microsoft for helping determine what…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.9 – Modifying the Collection Script to Ingest New Data
In the last part of this series, we took a look at how the collection script works. In this part, we will look at how you can modify it to collect a new piece of data. While I would prefer you to simply follow along, the final result script created in this guide will be SampleCollectionScriptV4.ps1 which…
