I have already written several blog posts about Endpoint Analytics. In the Microsoft Tech Community the question came up how to clean up the disk using Intune. This is a question that is difficult to answer generically as it is always very specific. As more and more applications and data move to the cloud and storage becomes cheaper and cheaper, the amount of storage needed on workplace devices and the problems with full hard disks are no longer as present as in the past.
In this blog I will show you how to clean up the disk on your clients with high disk usage. So let’s get started and clean up the disk the smart way.
This post shows how to detect slow internet breakouts with Microsoft Endpoint Analytics. By collecting per-device internet performance data with Endpoint Analytics and correlating it with location and ISP, you can spot the offices and remote locations where the user experience is silently degraded — long before the support tickets start.
Users always complain that the network is slow. This can also be measured centrally using various network monitoring tools, and for a broader view on reporting options you can also take a look at Mastering Intune Reporting and Analytics. However, this monitoring can only provide complete insight if the user is actually onsite in the corporate network.
If the user is sitting in the home office and is connected to the internet via his own router, this is not always so easy. But there are also many other reasons why a user has a slow connection. It is not always due to the network. In this block I want to show you how you can test the speed of all clients regularly with a simple remediation script and upload it to a log analytics workspace to do some analysis.
The taskbar became fuller with Windows 11. If you want to clean up Windows 11 for your end users, this guide shows you exactly how. In a previous blog I explained how to remove the teams icon or delete it completely. In this blog I want to explain how to hide the task view, widgets and search with the help of a remediation script, so you can clean up Windows 11 across your whole fleet with Intune.
A tidy taskbar is one of the easiest wins in any device baseline. When you clean up Windows 11, you reduce visual noise, cut accidental clicks on widgets, and give users a more focused desktop. The best part: everything below is fully managed through Microsoft Intune, so the policy stays consistent on every enrolled device.
Who does not know the situation when you come back from vacation and the computer wants to reboot after an update installation. However, it is extremely important from a security point of view that the system is always up to date. The goal here is to delay Windows Update pending reboot behavior so that updates are still installed directly, but the user gets a little more time to read emails and reboot the device only when it fits them.
Another example is when a measurement or other process is running on the computer for several hours or days. Also here it would be really bad if a reboot interrupts this measurement. In this blog I show how you can delay Windows Update pending reboot prompts but still remind the user of the reboot and give him the chance to do it when it suits him.
Writing toast notification responses into a Log Analytics workspace is a powerful way to capture real feedback from your users. It is useful after triggering a remediation action or for simply getting feedback from the user/customer to have a kind of survey. Contacting them by mail usually results in very poor response rates. It is much better to contact them directly via a popup. A similar approach can also be useful for user-facing notifications, for example when configuring Windows Update reboot notifications. How you can implement this with the help of a Remediation script and write the response in a Log Analytics workspace I will explain in this blog post.
After we have looked at the three categories of Device Management, Application Management and Endpoint Security, this blog continues with Intune Reporting, the reporting section of Microsoft Intune. Thanks to everyone who read the preceding blogs and gave me feedback. But it’s not over with very powerful and helpful features in Intune. Also in the Intune Reporting section you will find features that can make your daily work easier as an administrator and with which you can greatly increase the user experience. With Endpoint Analytics there is a very powerful Intune Reporting feature which is continuously developed and improved. But let’s take a closer look at it below.
