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  • Use Microsoft Connected Cache for your own downloads

    Use Microsoft Connected Cache for your own downloads

    A while ago i posted an article, that showed, how you can add custom URLs to your Microsoft Connected Cache Server, but I never showed you, why you would want to do something like this: Add Custom Sources Microsoft Connected Cache – Mike’s MDM Blog (mikemdm.de) DO-Downloader Today I will show you, what you can…

  • Autopilot Companion based on Power Apps

    Autopilot Companion based on Power Apps

    A few years ago, when we started to use Windows Autopilot to enroll our first devices, we quickly saw the need for a Companion App to handle GroupTags for our different Enrollment types like “normal” user-driven enrollments or different Pre-provisioning scenarios (formerly White Glove). So we started with the official App from Michael Niehaus: microsoft/WindowsAutopilotCompanion:…

  • User driven Device Group Membership

    User driven Device Group Membership

    Today I want you present my solution to allow your end-users to add their device to an AzureAD Group on their own. We are using something like this, to allow our users to select which devices should for example receive the Windows 11 Upgrade earlier then others, but I think there are way more possible…

  • Install Win32 Apps visible via Intune

    Install Win32 Apps visible via Intune

    Have you ever wondered if it is possible to install Apps as system interactively like it is possible in SCCM / MECM with the “Allow users to view and interact with the program installation” Option enabled? Unfortunately this is no possible with built-in methods, but there is a really easy solution for this in the…

  • Convert AzureAD Registered “Personal” Devices to “Corporate”

    Convert AzureAD Registered “Personal” Devices to “Corporate”

    In our environment we had a lot AzureAD Registered Devices that were corporate owned, but couldn’t be AzureAD Joined or Hybrid AzureAD Joined due to some technical limitations One issue with this setup are the limitations that come with a device tagged as “Personal” in Intune like the missing App Inventory of these devices. But…

  • Automatically set Intune Primary User based on the logged on User

    Automatically set Intune Primary User based on the logged on User

    Searching for an easy solution to set the Intune Primary User automatically for a subset of devices? We have a simply solution for you. In our case we needed a solution to automatically set the Primary User for our Intune managed VDI. The VMs were all automatically AzureAD Joined via a Windows Configuration Designer PPKG,…

  • Set Intune Device ScopeTags based on User Locations

    Set Intune Device ScopeTags based on User Locations

    UPDATE 2024_08_11: I have cerated a newer version of this script, that no longer assigns the Scope Tags directly, but via Entra ID Groups: Automatically assign Intune Scope Tags based on User location using Entra ID Groups – Mike’s MDM Blog (mikemdm.de)You can still use this version if you want, but I would recommend to…

  • Add Custom Sources Microsoft Connected Cache

    Add Custom Sources Microsoft Connected Cache

    Ever wondered if it is possible to add custom sources to a SCCM based Microsoft Connected Cache? It is absolutely possible as long as we talk about HTTP and not HTTPS, we can simply add the additional Server URL as a ServerFarm to IIS and add the needed URL Rewrite Rule Lets start with the…

  • Automate Autopilot Uploads with Azure Automation Runbooks

    Automate Autopilot Uploads with Azure Automation Runbooks

    Based on an old Article from Oliver Kieselbach about automating Autopilot Uploads, I wanted to share you my solution to this, slightly modified and improved: Automation of gathering and importing Windows Autopilot information – Modern IT – Cloud – Workplace (oliverkieselbach.com) In his Article he described a way, where the Hash was collected in form…

  • Custom ADMX Templates in Intune

    Custom ADMX Templates in Intune

    Ever wondered, if and how you can set a Registry Key via Intune without having to deploy a PowerShell Script? You totally can do this now relatively easy via ADMX Ingestion like described here: Import custom and third party partner ADMX templates in Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn In my example I wanted to set…

  • Can you create a Autopilot Hash from WinPE? Yes!

    Can you create a Autopilot Hash from WinPE? Yes!

    Have you ever wondered if you can harvest the Windows Autopilot Hardware 4k Hash from WinPE like used in MDT/SCCM or similar Deployment Systems? Yes, it is absolutely possible, when you keep an eye on a few details that i will describe here. First thing that you may notice, you can’t use the official Microsoft…