Get teams notification for the Top5 apps with installation errors

21. August 202227. August 2022 jannikreinhard1 Comment

It is always important as an Intune admin to have an overview of the environment. Intune offers a lot of reports but as we all know you don’t look into them every day. Isn’t it easier to get a daily or weekly message in Teams and see the top failed app installation. I have already released some blogs with the topic of detecting anomalies in Intune with the help of cognitive services. In this blog I want to show you how to send a report that is already available in Intune to Teams using Azure Automation.

How to import custom ADMX/ADML into Intune

19. August 202219. August 2022 jannikreinhard

With the Intune service release 2208 there is a really nice feature that provides the support to import ADMX and ADML templates very easy into MEM. This helps to create configurations for e.g. 3rd party products. How this work I will explain based on a Firefox.

Activate Mac FileVault using Intune

17. August 2022 jannikreinhard1 Comment

Encrypting the disk of a workspace is one of the basic settings that every managed device should have. Everyone who manages Windows PCs knows BitLocker. The solution that is integrated in MacOS to encrypt disks is called FileVault. In this blog I want to explain you how to configure this for MacOs devices.

Detect anomalies in your Intune environment with Azure Cognitive Services – Part 3 Bluescreen of death detection

3. August 20223. August 2022 jannikreinhard1 Comment

Welcome to the third part of my series in which I describe ways to get proactive notifications when something in your environment has a problem / error. So that this monitoring does not work with static values I use Microsoft Cognitive services to detect anomalies via machine learning. In this blog we will take a look at the Endpoint Analytics Startup performance bluescreen detection. Here we want to be notified when an unusual number of devices report a blue screen or problem during detection.

Change Windows 11 Context Menu with Intune

2. August 202210. August 2022 jannikreinhard4 Comments

Windows 11 has brought some changes to the Windows Explorer, including the way the context menu looks. By default, the context menu is reduced to the really necessary functions. This is sufficient for most users. However, if you often need functions that are not in the reduced view, then this can be a hindrance in the workflow. In this blog I want to show you how to get back the Windows 10 context menu with the help of Intune.

Introduction of the Intune App Creator with help of Chocolatey

1. August 202216. August 2022 jannikreinhard10 Comments

Anyone who has worked with Intune and deployed an app knows that this is a bit of work. You have to download the sources, create the IntuneWin file, create the app in Intune. To simplify this I have created the Intune App Creator. With this application you can search within the >9,000 Chocolatey and automatically add this app to your Intune app portfolio with just one click.

Introduction of the Intune Device Troubleshooter

31. July 20227. August 2022 jannikreinhard11 Comments

If you follow my blog, you know that there are two things I really like: helping people with their problems, and automating or simplifying processes. In this blog, I want to introduce you to my new tool, the Intune Device Troubleshooter. This is a PowerShell UI application that will help you to check the status of your devices, as well as support you to trigger remediation scripts to fix issues add-hock on single devices. It also provides you intelligent recommendations what you should check at a single device to determine and possible issue. So let’s get started and look at the features of the tool.

Summary of the Intune Management Extension

31. July 202219. September 2024 jannikreinhard6 Comments

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I mention the Intune Management Extension (IME) in several of them. The IME is a powerful tool that help you to manage your devices. In this blog, I’d like to go into more detail and take a look behind the scenes to explain how the IME works and what you should know about it. So let’s get started!

The further development of the Company Portal System Tray Icon

27. July 202227. July 2022 jannikreinhard11 Comments

A few weeks ago I released the Company Portal System Tray tool. The posts have a very good feedback and the tool was tested by some and also used productively. I have been working on developing the tool further and integrating more useful functions that can help with troubleshooting. The first version of the Company Portal system tray icon has many quick access possibilities to system tools or logs that are important for troubleshooting an Intune managed device. In addition, this tool has a quick access to open the Company Portal.

In this blog I want to introduce the new version of the Tool.

Detect anomalies in your Intune environment with Azure Cognitive Services – Part 2 Application Installations

24. July 20222. August 2022 jannikreinhard3 Comments

In one of my previous blog posts I explained how you can use Azure Automation and Azure Cognitive service to monitor the compliance state of your environment and notify you if there are major deviations today. In this part of the series I want to show you how you can apply this to the deployment of your applications and also get notified if the installation of an application suddenly fails abnormally often.