When “just change the IP” turns into a project
Picture a field engineer in a factory hall, laptop open, staring at a managed switch that only answers on a hard-coded subnet. To reach it they need to flip their NIC from DHCP to static…
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Managing HP BIOS Passwords with Intune
When it comes to managing BIOS passwords on HP devices, the real challenge is rarely setting them once. The hard part is handling them at scale, keeping them consistent, and avoiding fragile manual processes that…
Deploy Windows 11 with PXE
You’ve got a stack of new machines that need Windows 11 — and they need it yesterday. But setting up SCCM, MDT, or WDS feels like launching a spaceship just to light a candle. You…
Windows 11 and the SSO popup. DMA to blame.
Deploying a brand new installation with autopilot can be really automated. User login and they can start work but, they need to comply to use SSO for apps. It's annoying when we have set the…
Microsoft Edge enterprise sync fails mysteriously
This was a new experience. One customer had more or less nothing in the Microsoft Cloud but has started their journey. Since they apply under Swedish Government laws there are some restrictions on what they…
Allow users to install printer drivers
By default, regular non-admin users cannot install printer drivers in Windows due to insufficient privileges. By default Windows security settings require a user to have local admin permissions to install a driver. However, there are…
Change computer name on Windows devices
In this blog post, we’ll walk through the steps of changing a computer name using remediation scripts on Windows devices. But why? There are many reasons for wanting to rename devices across your organization, including:…
Get the hash
Sometimes when I am migrating from one tenant to another we need to prepare the new Intune tenant with the autopilot registrations before we start to wipe and reinstall the windows machines. This is of…
Setup an application for automation and scripts
When building automations and scripts and it needs authentication to our tenant the easiest and ugliest way is to elevate to global Admin and just grant to whatever consent that popups up. Of course that's…
Teams and firewall popup
You may have users complaining about receiving a Windows Defender Firewall prompt when they initiate or receive a call with Microsoft Teams application on their managed Windows 10 devices. This is really annoying to the…