Tag: PowerShell
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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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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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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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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 Updates: SMBv1 Monitoring & WMI/WMIC Update
SMBv1 – Windows Endpoint Monitoring: I pray that nobody has SMBv1 actually enabled as of June 2024 however, I have an update to share on this subject with regards to the Windows Endpoint Monitoring collector and workbook. Previously, the Windows Endpoint Monitoring script was simply checking whether or not the Windows Feature for SMBv1 was installed. If…
Azure to the Max 