Instructions for Jannik Reinhard Blog Readers

Intune Setup Instructions & How-Tos is part of the Instructions for Jannik Reinhard Blog Readers collection and explains reusable Microsoft Intune, Azure, and endpoint-management setup steps for the technical blog guides.

A good way to use this reference is to treat it as a preparation step before you touch the main tutorial. Open the linked article in one tab and this instruction page in another tab. Complete the baseline task here, verify the result in the relevant portal, and then continue with the article-specific deployment. This reduces mistakes because you are not mixing prerequisite setup with the actual solution logic.

For the Intune-focused articles on this site, the instruction page works like a shared prerequisite library. Start here when a post assumes that you already know how to package a Win32 app, where to find the Intune admin center, or which baseline Azure resources are needed for reporting and automation. The steps are intentionally generic, so you can reuse them across multiple labs and tenant scenarios instead of following a one-off checklist.

Before changing anything in production, recreate the step in a test tenant and document the names you use for apps, groups, scripts, workspaces, and storage accounts. Consistent naming is one of the simplest ways to make Intune troubleshooting easier later, especially when you compare screenshots from a guide with your own environment.

Instructions for Jannik Reinhard Blog Readers collects reusable Intune setup instructions and how-tos that are referenced across the blog. Use this first section as the orientation point for Win32 app packaging, Intune app deployment, and common Microsoft endpoint-management prerequisites before jumping into an article-specific guide.

The goal of these instructions is to avoid repeating the same baseline setup in every post. If a tutorial says to create an Intune Win32 app, configure an Azure prerequisite, or prepare a lab tenant, this page provides the repeatable foundation. That keeps each technical article focused on the actual solution while still giving new readers enough context to follow along safely.

On this page you can find general instructions for deploying different services and completing the basic configurations which are used in many of my blog posts.

1. Intune
   1. Apps
      1. Create Win 32 app
2. Azure
   1. Log Analytics
      1. Deploy an log analytics workspace
   2. Storage Account
3. Azure OpenAI Service

Intune

Apps

Create Win 32 app

1. Download the MSI file

• In this example we use MS Teams

2. Download and extract the Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool

• Download the Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool from GitHub. It’s a tool used to package application installation files into the .intunewin format used by Intune. After downloading it, extract the files to a folder on your PC.

3. Packaging the app

• Open Command Prompt as an administrator.
• Navigate to the folder where you extracted the Win32 Content Prep Tool using the cd command. Example: cd C:\Users\username\Desktop\Win32ContentPrepTool
• Run the following command:
  

IntuneWinAppUtil.exe -c <source_folder> -s <setup_file> -o <output_folder>

• Example:

IntuneWinAppUtil.exe -c C:\Users\username\Desktop\Teams -s Teams_windows_x64.msi -o C:\Users\username\Desktop\Output

Replace <source_folder> with the path to the folder containing the Teams MSI file, <setup_file> with the name of the Teams MSI file (including the .msi extension), and <output_folder> with the path to the folder where you want to save the .intunewin file.

You can also put cmd or .ps1 in the folder and use them as <setup_file>

• After running this command, the Win32 Content Prep Tool will create a .intunewin file in your specified output folder.