Google Chrome has a great set of Group Policy settings we can configure which makes it possible for us to even use Chrome in environments with high-security requirements, and we can also do this with Intune as it supports ADMX ingestion and ADMX backed policies! Starting with Google Chrome version 69 and later it supports
My dear colleague Johan Schrewelius has created some awesome tools for making it easier to upgrade/service Windows 10 to Windows 10 releases using a Task Sequence. We will start this blog series with a post on one of the tools UPGBackground. For those of you who use OSDBackground we can call it OSDBackgrounds little sister
My colleague Johan Schrewelius has put together a Windows 10 Upgrade Tools kit that is available for download on TechNet Galleries https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Windows-10-Upgrade-Tools-431094ca It contains two tools to assist with the upgrade to Windows 10 and Servicing of Windows 10. TSLaunch which is run as a Package/Program and is used to do pre-flight checks and kick
I wrote a script before on how to remove builtin apps in Windows 10 that was based on Ben Hunter’s script to do the same https://ccmexec.com/2015/08/removing-built-in-apps-from-windows-10-using-powershell/ As always, make sure you uninstall what you really need some apps can be reinstalled from the Store some are harder or impossible to get back. Not everything we
I wrote a blog post over at 4Sysops.com about how to use event forwarding to capture events from clients and then write it to SQL. I have been using this for years now and there are so many ways this can be used, Applocker – Which apps are blocked, Windows 10 projects – how do
With the new feature in Configuration Manager 1706 that makes it possible to launch Software center and show the correct application from a direct link in Software Center which is great! We can copy the link and email it to the user for instance. I have a customer that wanted to send out a mail
I have written a couple of posts now on Configuration Items and Baselines in Configuration Manager so I thought it was time to collect them all here with a call for action! Create your own CI’s and Baseline to make sure that you don’t have any configuration drift out there. Many settings are configured using
In Windows 10 1703 – Creators Update there is a new Group Policy setting that actually allows us to control what is visible in “Settings” for our users. This is useful for computers with a specific purpose for instance or other business requirements. The policy is called “Settings Page Visibility” it can be used to
