Ben Whitmore

Systems Architect @PatchMyPC | Microsoft Security MVP

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.

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.

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 Class from the Windows.UI.Notifications Namespace to create ToastNotifier objects to send a Toast Notification similar to below

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/

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!

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 deeper.

Azure AD Groups - in a nutshell

Not the longest post in the world but “Groups” are going to be quite pivotal in how you manage users and devices in Azure AD. In this post we will cover the basic Azure AD group and membership types. We will also look at how we can create Groups in both the Azure AD Portal and by using PowerShell.

Using ConfigMgr #MEMCM to Pin and Un-Pin OneDrive Known Folders

First blog post of 2020 using the new #MEMCM tag! One of the things asked for recently was the ability for users to “choose” to keep OneDrive “Known Folders” available offline. This isn’t necessary for a user on their Primary computer - the OneDrive files will already be local but when the user logs on to a different computer in a shared computer environment, the files will only be available on demand. We were asked to give the users the option of “Pinning” these known folders and for the admin to have the option to force it. The folders being redirected by OneDrive Known Folder Move were:-