Tag: Microsoft
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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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Windows Autopatch: Scheduled Install and Restart Not Restarting
Howdy folks – I’ve got a discussion topic for today that I want to write about, mostly to save your sanity where I lost mine. That topic being the “Scheduled Install and restart” option in Windows Autopatch. Outline: My History: I want to be very clear right off the bat that this is a topic…
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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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Technical Deep-Dive on the Workplace Un-Joined Solution (Work and School account Removal)
Introduction: This article pairs with my Everything I Know on Subscription Activation article as is to cover the technical deep dive over how I created the Work or School account detection and removal scripts as part of the “Workplace Un-joined” project. I figured this in-depth information likely didn’t need to go right into the master…
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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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Edge SSO, Work or School Accounts, and Subscription Activation (Enterprise OS)
How We Got Here: Sigh. Enterprise Activation is a topic I have now spent the past year writing about…April 2024, Enterprise Activation Broken by Windows Update.Retired article: September 2024, Work or School Accounts Break Enterprise Activation Part 1Retired article: November 2024, Work or School Accounts Break Enterprise Activation Part 2Retired article: December 2024, Work or…
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Enterprise Only Windows Policies
The History: You have no idea how much joy it brings me to be able to write this article. For years I have been deeply annoyed by the fact that Microsoft used to have a wonderful piece of documentation covering what polices could only be applied to an enterprise edition of Windows. You can still…
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Automating Reboot Maintenance Using Intune Proactive Remediations
Intro: One of the age-old issues we in IT face is the employee who thinks rebooting their machine is a quarterly process, or at most a monthly process forced by Windows Updates. As we all know, lengthy up times have a tendency to create system instability and sluggishness, prevent application updates from processing (because much…
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Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 4
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…
Azure to the Max 