Autopilot Manager with additional automation

New enhancements to Autopilot Manager are here. This time I focused on further optional automations of the import process based on customer feedback. Another year is gone and Autopilot Manager once again gets new features. Ironically last time I introduced new features (Evolving Autopilot Manager) was also ~1 year after the initial release. So here…

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Get back your Intune Win32 App Requirement and Detection Scripts

It looks like getting back all the script content in Intune is of high interest ๐Ÿ˜‰, soon after I published how to get back your Proactive Remediation Scripts, I got another request for the Intune Win32 Application scripts (Detection and Requirement scripts). So here we go, another small script to get back all the Win32…

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Get back your Intune Proactive Remediation Scripts

One of my blog readers kindly asked if I can provide a similar script like the one downloading all Intune PowerShell scripts for the Proactive Remediation Scripts. I’m happy to provide a modified version of my script to do exactly this. It uses the same technique as I used in my old script. There are…

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Deploy an Intune application with user device affinity

Today I’m going to show how we can achieve user device affinity with Intune application deployment as known from ConfigMgr. When we are going to deploy applications to users, we are independent of the user’s devices. The application belongs to a user and it can be installed or it gets automatically installed on all his…

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IME debugging and Intune Win32 App decoding – Part 2

Three years ago, I coded a small utility to decode Intune Win32 Apps and wrote a blog post about it – How to decode Intune Win32 App Packages. In addition to the small Decoder utility, I wrote a short PowerShell script to parse the Intune Management Extension (IME) log file to extract the necessary decryption…

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Evolving Autopilot Manager

A year ago, I released the Autopilot Manager to support Autopilot hash imports during Windows OOBE via an approval process (if not already familiar with Autopilot Manager, please read here Introducing Autopilot Manager first) and the solution is used by a lot of companies in the meanwhile. This is quite some time to discuss about…

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Top 10 modern management posts of 2020

I thought it might be nice to end the year 2020 with a short collection of my most viewed blog articles in 2020. For me the number one is not a real surprise, measured on the feedback it is a real helper for many out there. My own guess would have predicted some other posts…

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PowerShell Helpers to convert Azure AD Object IDs and SIDs

If you work with Azure AD and especially in my case with Intune and Azure AD you have probably seen Object IDs in the Azure AD portal on the user objects, group objects, or in the Intune log files. Here a portal screenshot of a demo user: Here a screenshot of the Intune Management Extension…

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Get back your Intune PowerShell Scripts

In this very short post I will show how you get your uploaded Intune PowerShell scripts again. If you work with Intune and especially with Intune PowerShell scripts to configure Windows 10 devices you probably looked at this dialog and wondered why you are not able to edit or download your already uploaded script again.…

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Cleanup Windows Autopilot registrations

How to cleanup Windows Autopilot device registrations via PowerShell script and Microsoft Graph.

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Windows 10 MDM client activity monitoring with SyncML Viewer

Do you ever wanted to know what is going on behind the curtain when clicking MDM Sync on Windows 10? Gaining insights how the SyncML representation protocol is used during device management of Windows 10 clients? With SyncML Viewer you have the chance to easily get deep insights now. I’ve written a small tool to…

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On-demand Windows Diagnostic Logs Email Notifications and Cleanup

Use of Azure Logic App to create email notifications with direct download link when new diagnostic log archives uploded to an Azure Blob Storage via DiagnosticLog CSP on Windows 10.

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How to decode Intune Win32 App Packages

The new Intune Win32 app management is a great way to deploy Win32 apps with Microsoft Intune. Imagine you have a kind of source share for all the .intunewin files you have created. At some point in time you like to modify a package but you do not have the source files right now, only…

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