Managed Desktop Icons and Shortcuts in Intune

If you have been using redirected desktops or some form of mandatory profile in your on-prem Active Directory environment using GPO, you may ask yourself how you will manage desktop icons and shortcuts in Intune? This was a question I faced myself, how can we easily control what icons and shortcuts a user see’s on their desktop of fully Intune managed devices? It’s actually not that hard thanks to the work of Florian, who runs the scloud blog. Let’s go over the implementation and how you can use this to manage the desktops of your Intune devices. ...

01-21-2023 · Adam

Intune Hardware Hash Import During Task Sequence

https://youtu.be/-F1IF9kybbU Many organizations could import the hardware hash of their existing endpoints using SCCM or other automated means because the endpoints were already running Windows. However, in some cases, this wasn’t possible because the devices were not running Windows at the time, which was the case for my organization. We wanted to use Autopilot when converting from the old Linux solution to the new Windows Azure AD/Intune solution. To do this, we needed an automated solution for collecting the hardware hash and importing it into Intune. So this was the start of a journey to find a good solution. ...

01-19-2023 · Adam

Deploy HKCU Registry Keys Using Intune

Intune makes a lot of things really easy, but some things are just easier with GPO. Adding or changing registry keys for the current user in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive is one of the things that was far easier with GPO than it is in Intune. I’m really going to miss the days of OnPrem AD, OU’s, and GPO’s. Sad times we live in, or maybe I’m just old and frustrated with Microsoft. ...

01-15-2023 · Adam

How to Deploy a Scheduled Task in Intune

There comes a time in every Window’s engineers life when they need to deploy a scheduled task to hundreds or even thousands of endpoints. Unfortunately, if your company has moved to Intune for endpoint management, this deployment isn’t as obvious and straightforward as it could be. Luckily, it isn’t terribly hard to do and it certainly isn’t impossible. So today, we will break down the steps to deploy a scheduled task with Microsoft Intune. I have used this same method on multiple occasions and it has worked every time. ...

01-13-2023 · Adam

Deploy PowerShell Scripts in Intune - 3 Easy Methods

So you need to deploy PowerShell scripts in Intune, also known as Microsoft Endpoint Manager, or MEM? We’ve got you covered with 3 different ways to get your PowerShell scripts to Intune endpoint machines. We will cover deploying a single PowerShell script to run one time, deploying proactive remediations, and deploying a PowerShell script packaged as a Win32 app. There are a few reasons you may want to deploy PowerShell scripts to Intune endpoint devices, such as Windows 10 computers and servers. ...

11-08-2022 · Adam