Back in July last year we released a community version of our Windows Update Compliance dashboard, a KQL driven workbook that helped you visualise Microsoft Update Compliance data. Since then there have been a number of...
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Task Sequence Basics – Intel Optane Drives
In this blog post we cover the unusual characteristics of the Intel Optane drive, and how we need to approach task sequence builds to ensure we do not hit an unforeseen issue when it comes to in-place upgrades later in...
Remove Built-in Windows 11 apps leveraging a Cloud-Sourced reference file
In this quick post we will be removing built-in Windows 11 apps, for all users, and optionally showing you how to leverage a “Cloud-Source” as a reference file to select apps for removal. Table of...
Ben Whitmore
Application Reliability Monitor with Log Analytics
If there is one certainty when it comes to computing, it is that applications will at some point crash or hang. The reasons are widespread, incompatibility between installed frameworks, dynamic link libraries, or...
Windows Update Settings Compliance
In this post I will show you how to use Proactive Remediations and Log Analytics, together, to ensure Windows Update Settings are Optimal and Compliant on your devices. This post comes on the back of a session both Aria...
Delivery Optimization Configuration & Monitoring
With more and more organisations making the move to obtain applications and Windows updates through Intune and Windows Update for Business (WUfB), one thing that often goes overlooked is how to optimise data throughput...
Use a Scheduled Task to Rotate Passwords for CloudLAPS
Introduction If you haven’t seen it yet, CloudLAPS is a community developed solution, maintained by Nickolaj Andersen from MSEndpointMgr including community members Thomas Kurth (@ThomasKurth_ch), Maurice Daly...
Securing Windows MAM Only Access with Conditional Access
With more and more companies today allowing BYOD scenarios we need to consider all the potential security risks around this. Working primarily with larger enterprise customers I don’t usually get into the Windows...
Intune BIOS Update Compliance Reporting
Hardware vendors provide BIOS updates for a reason, it is not just about keeping the BIOS firmware developers busy. Most BIOS updates includes improvements on stability and security, some are more critical than others...
Windows Update Compliance Workbook Community Edition
If you are looking for a dashboard that will show a full breakdown of Windows patching across your estate, including errors, safehold issues, delivery optimization figures, and Windows 11 readiness, then look no further...