Tag: Windows
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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 1.1: 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 2.2: Sample Data, Tables, DCRs, Initial Ingestion
Let’s get right into it. Following our last post, here is how you actually set this monitoring up. This part will cover the creation of the DCR’s, Tables, and initial data ingestion. Setup of the workbook as well as the true deployment of the collector scripts will come in part three. Again, I cannot possibly recommend…
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Intune Win32 Apps: Running them at System Startup
Here is a scenario: You might need to update an app, say a very critical app like a VPN application, and make sure you do it at a time that won’t interrupt the user. Unfortunately, Intune is not really capable of scheduling app deployments. You won’t be able to say “install this app only between…
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Murdering Windows 11 Performance by Disabling Windows Defender – What Not to Do.
This is the story of how a rather innocent seeming policy, a policy which many other blogs “suggest” (to one degree or another), can absolutely destroy Windows 11 performance. This issue can slow the machine down by an order of magnitude – under the right conditions. This issue took me the better part of a…
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Autopilot ESP Bug: Office C2R Teams Installer Resulting in MSI Collision Nightmares
The title here says a lot. Through no short amount of pain, I have uncovered an unfortunate ESP bug related to the Teams Machine-Wide Installer specifically when deployed through Intune using the Microsoft 365 Apps (Windows 10 and later) app type. This article makes for a direct follow up to my ESP App Failure Troubleshooting…
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Troubleshooting Autopilot ESP App Failures: Error 0x81036502
Howdy folks! Here is a fun topic for today. Most anyone who works with Autopilot has probably been sent a fuzzy cellphone picture of an ESP failure at one point or another. More often than not, at least in my personal experience, that failure is usually at the Apps stage with the mysterious error 0x81036502.…
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Auditing Other Logon/Logoff Events for Log Analytics
Some of my up-and-coming PowerShell based Log Analytics guides make use of Windows Event logs for data gathering. While the Event Log has a ton of useful information by default, some events only log when enabled via additional policy. One such policy is the Auditing of Other Logon/Logoff Events. This policy enables a multitude of…
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Windows 11: Automating the Removal of Personal Teams with Intune
I got reminded of this topic recently and realized there are a lot of people who might want this. This is how you can remove Microsoft Teams Personal from Windows 11 devices and keep it gone, as best as possible as of today at least. There was at one point a registry key one could…
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