Finally time to blog during these busy times, removing Personal Teams in Windows 11 by setting the ConfigureChatAutoInstall registry value to prevent from installing. The challenge is that the permissions on that registry key, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Communications is set to TrustedInstaller so it is hard to create the necessary value. There are solutions out there that uses…
Category: Windows 11
Windows 11 Multi-App kiosk – a first look
Windows 11 Multi-app kiosk is finally here, when writing this it is not released in the cumulative update for Windows 11 22H2 yet. And because of that it is not possible to configure it through Intune or Provisioning packages just yet when I am writing this. More information: Set up a multi-app kiosk on Windows…
PS Script to Update Boot images with CU-CVE-2023-24932
This will be a short post on how to update WinPE boot images with a Cumulative Update as we need to do that now with the release of May 2023 Cumulative Update to address CVE-2023-24932. Spent all day with colleagues to try to test what happens to OS deployment (and AutoPilot) when deploying the mitigation…
Windows MDM Security Baseline – Settings Catalog
Important Update! I published a new export to solve import issues but that export missed the following so if you download that export update it with the following changes to match the Security Baseline: I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago with the Microsoft Edge Security Baseline policy re-created in Settings catalog. I…
Configuring Desktop App Installer using CSP and script?!
Desktop App installer a.k.a. Windows Package Manager and Winget is a powerful addition to the Windows platform. It is also something that we all need to learn and configure according to our organization’s requirements, compliance requirements and security. The “New” Store support in Intune makes this a bit trickier as well as we must allow…
Customizing Taskbar and Start in Windows 11 22h2 with PowerShell
In Windows 11 22H2 we have some great new options for the Start Menu layout which I really like, More Pins or More recommendations. There is no builtin way to configure the default for the end-user with which Start Menu layout to use. We get a lot of questions from end-users that they would like…
Remove built-in apps in Windows 11 22H2 during OSD
I have updated the script I use to uninstall built in apps in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows 11 22H2 has some changes when it comes to removing built-in apps. Is uninstalling built-in apps still a thing, yes it is. Teams Personal is one example of a similar app to Teams that causes unnecessary…
Using Install-language during AutoPilot Windows 11 insider
At the session I presented with Michael Niehaus on customizing Windows 11 at MMS 2022 in Minneapolis we talked about the new PowerShell support for installing Language packs and set system language which are included in the Windows 11 Insider build 22257. During the session we got the question if it works together with AutoPilot…