Risk Based Windows 11 Feature Update Deployment - Reporting

Nick Benton published on 25 March 2024 included in category Windows and series Risk Based Windows 11 Feature Update Deployment

With Windows 10 support coming to an end sooner than you’d expect, in the first part of this series we look at ways to capture Feature Update Readiness Report data using PowerShell and Graph to help with the rollout of the new Windows 11 operating system.

Remediating BitLocker DMA Exception Errors with Microsoft Intune

Nick Benton published on 16 March 2024 included in category Windows

So you’ve configured BitLocker encryption in Microsoft Intune, but some of your devices are failing to encrypt complaining about a DMA exception issue as part of Automatic Encryption. How can we fix that without creating a gaping security hole?

Creating Reusable Groups of Firewall Settings for Microsoft Online Services

Nick Benton published on 9 March 2024 included in category Intune

It’s time to remove another manual process, this time the creation of Microsoft 365 network endpoints for Windows Firewall Rules in Microsoft Intune, because nobody should be creating these manually.

A Flexible Approach to Microsoft Update Deployments

Nick Benton published on 19 February 2024 included in category Windows

It’s been a while since we’ve looked at deploying Microsoft and Windows Updates using Microsoft Intune, this time we look at different ways to phase our deployments across a device estate.

Custom Backgrounds for macOS New and Classic Microsoft Teams Apps

Nick Benton published on 14 February 2024 included in category macOS

With the availability of the new Microsoft Teams client for macOS, we should build upon an existing script to deploy backgrounds, and update it to support not just the new version but the classic version as well.

Keeping Windows Store Apps Updated with Microsoft Intune

Nick Benton published on 6 February 2024 included in category Windows

So we’re all onboard with the New Microsoft Store, and deploying both UWP and Win32 apps from Microsoft Intune is an absolute breeze, and reduces the effort of deploying applications to a click click next OK exercise. What about the UWP apps that are already installed on a Windows Autopilot device, shouldn’t we give them a bit of love? If you care at all about users and security you should.

Automatically Resizing the WinRE Partition for Windows Update KB5034441

Nick Benton published on 31 January 2024 included in category Windows

When Microsoft releases an update that won’t install due to the size of a Recovery partition, what do you do? Follow the manual steps provided by Microsoft or blindly follow a script created by a stranger on the internet?

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