Quick assist is a built-in remote control app in Windows 10 intended for home and personal use, that is at least my opinion. Many don’t even know that it exists and for an enterprise we really need to manage it = remove it or block it. I wrote a blog post about it here at
One great improvement in Configuration Manager 1902 Technical Preview is the possibility to select to only view the first monitor and not all monitors when the machine you are remote controlling has more than one. This is a big issue today best solved by have a bigger screens than the end users. This is how
“Application approval in the latest version of Configuration Manager 1806/1810 has gotten a lot of love! It’s one of the biggest changes to application deployment in many years. It still needs some finishing touches, but it’s well worth it to try it out and perhaps start using it.” I wrote a blog post over at
In Configuration Manager a new way of waking up computers exists. We can Wake Up a single computer or all computers in a collection using the Client Notification channel, no need to configure Wake-On-LAN in Configuration Manager site settings and no need to ask the network team to turn on Subnet-Directed Broadcast. We tested it
One of the biggest challenges and discussion points when it comes to removing the local admin permissions from users is that they cannot add multi-function printers without admin permissions as they need to install additional software to work. I bought a new OfficeJet printer the other day and was happily surprised that the HP Smart
I wrote a blogpost on how to make CMTrace which is included in the SCCM client nowadays using a PowerShell script. I got a question basically instantly if that could not be used for Intune managed clients without the SCCM client. Yes! it can, we only need to add a line to copy CMTrace.exe to
I while back I wrote a script and published it on Technet Gallery that allows us to run one step in our Task Sequence to remove the builtin apps and it reads two text files for each version of Windows 10 so we have total control of what we uninstall. It is really simple to
Now that CMTrace is a part of the Configuration Manager client which is really great!, I still miss the fact that it is not made the default .log reader. It will save me at least 3 clicks 😉 on each machine I troubleshoot. Here is a simple PowerShell script that will associate .Log and .Lo_