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....

01-21-2023 · 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

PowerShell Force Compliance Baseline Evaluation

SCCM Compliance rule evaluation for a new rule can sometimes be slow or maybe you just need to manually evaluate compliance baselines or rules on a machine or group of machines. Regardless of your reasoning, the PowerShell script below can help you achieve the goal of manually and remotely kicking off SCCM compliance rule evaluations. To make this reusable in the future, we will create a simple function that we can call along with a hostname to do the dirty work for us....

03-03-2021 · Adam