Recently I’ve ran into the situation where an SCCM (MECM) device needed to be migrated to Intune and the rule was that for AutoPilot to work the device must have: Bios Password Wiped Secure Boot enabled Recovery Partition enabled Factory reset to OOBE The Out of The Box Experience then […]
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The Quick Assist tool came in the past as a default executable which was located into the system32 folder of Windows. Starting with Windows 10 21H2, Microsoft decided to move Quick Assist into the Microsoft Store. The first issue we see is that Quick Assist was only placed in system32 […]
After I have did a small test lab for Azure Virtual Desktop, it was time to play a little bit with MSIX App Attach functionality that Azure offers. However, after my virtual machine was created, when I went into the host pool to add an MSIX package, the following error […]
Because of the workload and limited time to post on my personal blog, I’ve decided to do small little posts like this when I talk about different challenges that I personally, or some other colleagues in the industry faced during their working days. Today I want to have a look […]
I was struggling with a Windows licensing topic and as it turns out, Microsoft it’s designing some tools to be language dependent in terms of output (i’ll do a separate blog post regarding this). There were many ideas on how to tackle the problem, but afterwards I thought “hey, I […]
If you need to download an MSIX/APPX package from the Microsoft Store, you don’t technically have any alternative rather than the actual Store. But I’ve stumbled upon a PowerShell script designed by Mattias which is easy to use and so far it works great. First, navigate to the GitHub repository […]
In this example we will create a simple form with a Combo Box, which will act as a drop down list. As an addition, we will add the functionality in the code to detect when the user selects anything from the drop down menu. To create a simple PowerShell form, […]
There are many possible ways in which you can install a PowerShell module and most of us are probably using the nuget package manager to achieve this. But what if you want to install a PowerShell module without having access to the internet on a particular machine? First of […]
Sometimes we need to have a single distribution package as an MSIX, which includes MSIX supported features along with MSI features that are no longer available (such as old drivers). Unlike MSI, MSIX doesn’t have sequences and doesn’t support custom actions — as we covered in our comprehensive 24 chapter […]
In a previous article, we had a look on how to get your office add-ins from the infrastructure by using SCCM and PowerShell. As mentioned, there are multiple ways in which you can achieve this so don’t take this article as the only way. PowerShell Script With this in […]
While this is not a new topic, we all know that getting all Office add-ins installed on the machines of an infrastructure is a tricky topic. Microsoft released a new add-in inventory report for Configuration Manager back in 2017, but I didn’t wanted to use a mof file in my […]
When you are working in an infrastructure and want to gather information from multiple machines in a single file, somewhere on a sharepoint, you will encounter a major problem, and that is that you can’t write in a file from multiple machines at the same time. Even on your own […]