Just a tech braindump
While recently undertaking some Operating system and Microsoft office upgrades, upon completion we began to encounter issues with some of the applications and the .net framework. The Issue What was being reported is as follows, when users would try and open an office application such as Outlook, Word or Excel. The application would begin to…
Adding printers to Intune seems like it would be a simple and effortless process. And thankfully, it is. In this blog post i will walk you through how to add / deploy printers to devices through Intune. In this scenario, we will create a new device configuration profile, of the type “Device Restrictions” Navigate to…
In Part 1 of this post i demonstrated how to list all external team members with team owners and team name. Although this returned the data that we want. it doesn’t present it in a format that is easy to read and work with. In this post i will show you how to get this…
For a while now, Scope Tags have been an odd concept for me to understand. Partly because, i thought i understood it, and partly due to me not getting my hands dirty and bringing myself to understand how they work. However, as with all things tech, there comes a time where you just have to…
Enabling External Collaboration With the introduction of new collaboration tools such as Microsoft teams, administrators and technology teams begin to face new challenges. One of the challenges that i faced recently is finding the balance between giving our end users an open experience with Microsoft Teams, while reducing the administrative overhead that comes along with…
When moving from exchange on-premise to exchange online, in an ideal world, you would also be getting rid of the dependence of public folders – and the misery that comes along with them. As part of some work that i recently undertook, this was one of my tasks. To be more specific, My task was…
Recently i did some work for an organisation which was based out of an 8 story building. They advised me that one of the things that they needed my help with, is automating the distribution list that users get added to based on their office location. The office location attribute they were referring to was…
There is a requirement as part of domain migrations, that none of the domains being released can be referenced in the ProxyAddresses attribute using SIP or SMTP. In order to tackle this requirement I created a powershell script to remove the proxy addresses that use any of the domains which are being removed as part…
As part of a Windows 10 migration, there is a requirement to push our users to begin using Microsoft OneDrive for Business. However, how is a user expected to begin using a new application without first having that application installed? With this in mind, it wasn’t long before i came to the realization that there…
In this post i will run through the steps that are required to allow RDP – TCP Port 3389 on intune. This rule will apply to the windows firewall through intune. Navigate to portal.azure.com and go to Intune > Device Configuration > Profiles and click on “Create Profile”. Enter a Name for the profile and…
