Tag: security

• 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…

  Max

  June 11, 2025

  Policy, PowerShell, Proactive Remediations, Subscription Activation, Update to my work, Windows, Windows 11

  0X87E10BF2, Azure, Intune, Microsoft, PowerShell, Proactive Remediations, Remediation, security, SingleTenantldExpectedForAadUsers, Windows, Windows 11, Work or School account

• 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…

  Max

  May 13, 2025

  Bug, Subscription Activation, Uncategorized, Windows

  Bug, Edge, Entra Registered, Intune, Microsoft, security, SSO, Subscription Activation, Windows, Windows 11, Workplace Joined

• 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…

  Max

  May 13, 2025

  Intune, Policy, Subscription Activation

  Enterprise, Enterprise Only, Enterprise OS, Intune, Microsoft, Policy, Pro, security, Windows, Windows 11

• 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…

  Max

  April 6, 2025

  Intune, PowerShell, Proactive Remediations, Windows

  Alerting, Automatic, Intune, Microsoft, Pop-up, PowerShell, Proactive Remediations, reboot, security, Windows

• 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…

  Max

  October 17, 2024

  Intune, PowerShell, Proactive Remediations, Windows, Windows 11

  Disk Space, Intune, Microsoft, PowerShell, Proactive Remediations, security, Windows, Windows 11

• 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…

  Max

  March 12, 2024

  Bug, Windows

  Bug, Daylight Savings Time, Firmware, Incorrect Time, Intune, microsoft-intune, security, Surface Laptop, Time, Windows, Windows Update, Wrong Time