Wrote a blog post on how to Troubleshoot Windows 10/11 Subscription based activation over at 4Sysops. The issue we saw show up as Windows 10 Enterprise subscription is not valid as shown below. It turns out the If there is more than one Azure AD account added under “Access work or School”, they will fail…
Category: Intune
Customize default Windows 11 Start Menu using Intune
Now the time has come to look at customizing the default Windows 11 Start Menu. Customizing the Start Menu using Intune is simple and works great by using the new CSP “ConfigureStartPins”. More information can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/customize-start-menu-layout-windows-11For on-premise there is no support for using the same feature either with PowerShell or Group Policy, however…
Modify Windows 11 Taskbar during OSD, Intune and GPO
When it comes to modifying the TaskBar in Windows 11 nothing has changed since Windows 10. The only change is that the Start Menu part of the XML file is no longer used, it has been replaced by a .json file. More on that in the next post. More information can be found here on…
Remove the chat icon in Windows 11 Start menu using GPO/Intune
When Windows 10 was released I and many others did a lot of customizing of Start Menu, Taskbar branding and so on. Windows 11 changes that as we can no longer change or modify the Start Menu, or well we control the default Pinned apps using Intune/MDM but it is simply not worth it. I…
Upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 with Setupconfig.ini and Intune
Me and Fellow MVP Ronni Pedersen have been presenting on Windows Servicing on a number of events the last couple of months! One of the things we cover is how to use Setupconfig.ini together with Intune when doing Windows Servicing. After testing it out when doing an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 using…
Script to make the user which enrolled in AAD a local admin.
When we use AutoPilot with Windows 10 and Intune one of the great benefits is that we can make the enrolling user a standard user and not local admin per default. In some case we of course need to make the users who enrolled the PC a local admin, perhaps after ordering it from a…
MEM, Windows 10 Personal device and Sync issues
In a project lately we use Windows 10 Personal devices that enroll into Intune. Works great, but…. When we configured Conditional Access even if the device is compliant it still blocks access since more Work accounts are configured on the device. On the personal device in this scenario a personal Microsoft Account is used to…
MEMCM Tenant attach: Device sync and device actions TP 2002.2 a first look
A big ask and dream has been a Webbased admin portal for Configuration Manager for a long time. The new feature in Configuration Manager 2002.2 Technical Preview “Device sync and actions” is the first look at the feature promised and presented at Ignite in 2019. This new features is hopefully the start with more features…