Just a tech braindump
In the modern age where security and software updates are critical to keeping your fleet secure, it seems odd to have such an easy to implement setting missing from Intune/Microsoft Endpoint Manager as a native setting that we should be able to configure. Nevertheless, with this post i will provide a custom configuration profile that…
A journey through Pandoras Box In part 1 of this 2 part series, we first took a shallow look into macOS application deployment, I warned you of the horrors, grief and pain to come, and provided some instructions on how to prepare yourself for this task as well as how to check whether an application…
Opening Pandoras Box Through countless hours of pain, i have decided to document everything that i can remember with regards to my experience in learning about packaging and deploying applications for macOS via Intune, or what is now known as, Microsoft Endpoint Manager. To state that this was just a learning experience is not enough….
Having recently been asked to deploy an open-source text substitution tool for some users at work and a quick google returned no results, i figured why not share what I’ve discovered. The below commands will assist in silently installing Beeftext. Install “Beeftext-7.2-Installer.exe” /S Uninstall “C:\Program Files (x86)\Beeftext\Uninstall.exe” /S Quite possibly the shortest post i will…
Having recently been required to package an application called Draftsight for some engineers, i ran into a few troubles with getting the application to silently install in a manner that still allowed the users to enter the license key without hardcoding the license key into the deployment. Through some experimentation and research(Ha! Google), i was…
The introduction of Onedrive For Business and Known Folder Moves has allowed for businesses to move from the traditional methods of redirected profiles and the limitations that come with them. There are two primary advantages of moving or redirecting Windows known folders (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Screenshots, and Camera Roll) to Microsoft OneDrive for the users…
If you ever run into issues with Microsoft Teams, one of the best things you can do to try and remediate the issue is clearing the cache for the application. Unfortuantely however, Microsoft have not made this easy with teams. Teams caches data in several folders and remoting on to a users pc to delete…
One way to look at governing Microsoft Teams is to think about the options you have as light switches, you can turn these options on and off to meet your requirements however it is important to understand the benefits and negatives behind each of these decisions. In this article I will look at 6 options…
In this post i’ll demonstrate how to enable the chrome bookmarks bar using an Intune policy. This post will cover how to ingest the chrome bookmarks, then how to create a custom OMA-URI to enabled the bookmarks bar. Click here to view Googles knowledgebase article for more information on how to Manage Chrome Browser with…
Trying to run Exchange Management Shell on Windows 10 versions later than 1709 can be a frustrating experience – one of the issues which i have encountered recently is in relation to this. The Problem When trying to run Exchange Management Shell on Windows 10 1909 i come across the following error. The type initializer…
