Disable Windows News and Interests from Microsoft Endpoint Manager

In April 2021, Microsoft announced a new feature which would be integrated into Windows (back-ported to version 1909) – News and Features. If you’re reading this then I’m going to assume you already know all about it. Just in case though, here’s the official post – https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/04/22/personalized-content-at-a-glance-introducing-news-and-interests-on-the-windows-10-taskbar/ Having read and listened to initial feedback on…

Store removable device BitLocker recovery keys to Azure AD

Not the snappiest title, I’ll work on it. But for now I will share the info anyway. I was asked about storing BitLocker recovery keys into Azure Active Directory with Microsoft Intune, which natively is fairly straight forward for Windows 10 fixed or operating system drives but no so much for removable drives. I’ll be…

Configuring Citrix Receiver with Custom Intune policies

Before I start, I can’t claim to be the brains behind all of this one as I’m simply sharing what has been shared with me and adding my own interpretations. David Inglis (@thecockneymanc) responded to a post I made on twitter as he’d been through the pain of figuring this one out but doesn’t have…

Azure AD group for Autopilot devices except specific group tag

A very short post to share here based on something I was asked recently. The query below will present you ALL devices which ARE registered for Windows Autopilot, but excluding ones with a specific group tag. I’m sharing this one as it’s not quite as obvious as you may immediately think and it might save…

ConfigMgr Autopilot Hardware Hash report by collection

In Configuration Manager Current Branch* we have a report which automatically gathers the Windows Autopilot hardware hashes and other information. This allows us to handily export the report into a CSV and hey presto it’s in the correct format to upload straight into Autopilot. I wrote it up at the time of the tech preview…

ConfigMgr Console connection failure when VM restores from saved state

Hopefully, no one will ever need to read this, but I had a weird issue today. I’ve never had this before with Configuration Manager or any other app for that. I use a lab based on virtual machines and at the end of each day the VMs are put into a saved state as the…

Microsoft Store for Business not synchronising with Intune

I was chatting to someone recently and they were in this scenario, so I’m writing it up. There are lots of guides out there on how to do this, but I found that many of them were a little outdated due to changes in the Microsoft Store for Business. The scenario is you have recently…

Quick Tip: Microsoft Endpoint Manager URL

A very quick tip which I thought I would write down, simply because there are lots of people that don’t realise this. Many times people have seen me use this and didn’t realise it was possible. If you’re working across several Microsoft Endpoint Manager tenants, you know it can sometimes be a little confusing switching…

Enable Intune Administrators without a licence

This one landed into Microsoft Intune in June 2020 but I’ve found many customer aren’t aware of it, so I’m writing this up for reference. That’s a shame too because many customers have asked for this over the past few years. What I’m talking about is the capability to still have you IT admins manage…

Windows 10 Servicing – The Car Analogy

I decided to write this post about Windows servicing based on many conversations I have with organisations of all kinds. Servicing of Microsoft Windows in many cases has been overlooked after that initial upgrade from earlier versions. Whilst many have engaged into the concept of servicing, many haven’t so I wanted to put an analogy…

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