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…
Category: Windows
Get started with Windows Backup for Organizations
Have you ever upgraded your smartphone and marveled at how quickly everything just works again? You log in, and suddenly all your apps, settings, and wallpapers are exactly where you left them. Until recently, that…
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 Kiosk, Intune and Smartsign
SmartSign is a flexible digital signage platform that makes it easy to manage and display content across screens of any size. In this post, I’ll show how I build a Windows 11 kiosk with Intune…
Block & Whitelist URLs in Edge
Sometimes you want an environment so locked down that only approved sites can be accessed, and everything else is blocked. In a recent scenario, I did exactly that on W365 machines, and the Intune URLBlocklist…
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…
Windows LAPS is getting better
Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) introduced last year features that enhance the management of local administrator accounts. These settings are not at the moment visible in the GUI but I think its worth using…
Config Refresh, a policy sync?
Microsoft has added a new feature quite some time ago to Intune called Config Refresh, and it’s designed to help you keep device settings exactly the way you want them. In environments where stability and…
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…