Tag: Windows 11
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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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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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Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 2
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…
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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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Log Analytics for Application Usage Monitoring Part 1.4: Sample Data, Tables, DCRs, Initial Ingestion
Introduction: We have now covered what this solution does and its cost, at least from an ingestion standpoint. Now, we will finally be deploying something! In this article, we will generate our sample data, use it to create our new tables and DCRs, grant the appropriate permissions on those DCRs, and perform an initial ingestion!…
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Bug: Windows 11 KB5027231 + (some) AV is Breaking Google Chrome
Here’s one hot off the presses. Getting right into it, here is what I have to share. I will update this article as the issue and information progresses. What is happening? Today we started seeing a handful of reports that Google Chrome would not launch on devices. As the day went on, this number started…
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Bug: Zoom VDI + Screen Capture Protection = Blank Zoom
So, this is going to be an interesting post. I don’t know for fact if this is an issue others are facing, it could be self-inflicted. However, all testing doesn’t suggest this and ultimately, I would rather write something and have nobody else experience it than say nothing while others suffer in confusion like we…
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Automating the Conversion of Intune Group Tags for Windows 11 Upgrades Part 2: Function App
Following my last post, this part will cover the deployment of the Function App as well as gathering of the values from the Function App we will need for the next part. Update:Following my recent post on Security Updates for HTTP(s) Function Apps, I have started off by updating the Windows 11 Group Tag Conversion (GTC)…
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