Ben Whitmore

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP, Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert and Software Engineer @PatchMyPC

Getting Started with Microsoft Intune Proactive Remediations

In this Lab video we dive into a feature of Endpoint Analytics in Microsoft Intune called “Proactive Remediations” I give a high level overview of what Proactive Remediations are and an example of how we can use them to remediate invalid client registry settings. For the scenario presented during the lab, the clients were enabled […]

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Microsoft Edge stops receiving updates after the Windows Update workload is moved to Intune

Many organisation are moving workloads to Intune from Configuration manger using Co-management. One of the more popular workloads to move is Windows Updates. After you move this workload to Intune, you may observe that your clients stop receiving updates for Microsoft Edge. If you deployed Microsoft Edge using ConfigMgr 1910 automatic updates for Edge were

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Office 365 updates stop working when workloads are switched to Intune

The following post will highlight a scenario where Office 365 Updates stop working for clients that have the Office C2R Apps workload moved to Intune. This was a “Think and write it down blog” so my apologies for the structure (or lack of it) – I hope you can still follow my train of thought.

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Deploy Service Announcement Toast Notifications in Windows 10 with MEMCM

You may have seen that many apps these days use “Toast Notifications” to inform the user of an event or to ask them to do something. If you have moved your workload to Intune for Windows Update Policies you would have encountered them for sure. UWP and Desktop Apps can leverage the ToastNotification and ToastNotificationManager

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Using MEMCM to fix legacy GPO settings that prevent co-managed clients getting updates from Intune

Background Co-management has really opened the playing field as we consider moving workloads to the cloud. I did a blog series on co-management before, check it out! https://byteben.com/bb/co-management-series-merging-the-perimeter-part-1-what-is-co-management/ Generally speaking, as we move workloads to Intune, similar workloads are prevented from being applied to the clients from MEMCM. There are caveats to this, but I

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Deploy custom Microsoft Teams backgrounds, easily, with PowerShell and Intune

This one has been in my blog queue for a while. @stuffygibbon did a shout out on Twitter so I thought I’d bring this post forward and show you how you can deploy a PowerShell script from Intune to install a custom background for your Microsoft Teams users! Custom Backgrounds for Teams? Microsoft announced a

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Enable IE Mode and use a Site List in Edge Chromium with Microsoft Endpoint Manager

In this two part mini series we will look at enabling IE Mode in Edge Chromium using both Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Configuration Manager. I won’t be deep diving how IE Mode works in this post (although I was tempted) but I have posted links to the Microsoft Docs throughout if you want to dig

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Create an Intune Configuration Profile to deploy the “My Apps Secure Sign-in Experience” Extension for Edge

What is the “My Apps Secure Sign-in Experience” Extension for Edge In order to leverage Single sign-on to your “Password Based” Azure AD applications, your Windows users will need to install a browser extension. The “My Apps Secure Sign-in Experience” Browser Extension will handle the authentication to applications using the credentials that are stored in

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