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Proactive Remediations - Getting your message across with repeated Toast Notifications

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Automatically Migrate Applications from ConfigMgr to Intune with the Win32App Migration Tool

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Win32App Migration Tool is a free community tool that has been developed to do the scoping and heavy lifting for you as you consider building Win32apps in Intune while using your ConfigMgr apps as a reference. The tool is designed to inventory ConfigMgr Applications and Deployment Types, build .intunewin files and create Win32apps directly in the MEM admin center.

User-Driven Home Drive Migrations to OneDrive using MEMCM

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This script wont necessarily fit your environment, it may do with tweaking, but my hope is that it will give you an idea of how you can approach different challenges using the different tools in you arsenal.

Update a Client Certificate Private Key using Intune Proactive Remediations

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

It is not unusual to still see 3rd party products being used in Windows 10. Brad Anderson said “Making a big impact starts with making things really simple” when he outlined Microsoft’s vision for modern management. I get this completely and agree with the rhetoric but some orgs are still trying to come around to the idea of “Modern” and some die hard admins just won’t let go of their tried and tested tech.

Deploy the Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player (KB4577586) using Intune

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In our previous post How to Uninstall Adobe Flash Player from Windows 10 with ConfigMgr (byteben.com) we reviewed the End of Life for Adobe Flash Player and what that meant for Windows 10 devices. We also stepped through a tutorial showing you how to deploy the update with ConfigMgr. Please review this post first as it contains a lot more detail about the update intention than this post does.

Using scripts to evaluate Win32 app requirements - "Require Chassis equals Laptop"

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In this short post we will be looking at app requirements in the context of installing Win32 apps.

Deploy Service Announcement Toast Notifications in Windows 10 with MEMCM

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

How to Deploy Fonts with MEMCM

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I have been releasing a lot of “Quick Tips” on Twitter recently. This post falls into that category. It isn’t necessarily a deep dive but something that has been requested a few times. In this post I will show you how to deploy SYSTEM Fonts using MEMCM (ConfigMgr)

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

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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!

Azure AD Groups - in a nutshell

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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.