Align the Windows 11 taskbar to the left with help of Intune

2. August 202113. June 2022 jannikreinhard6 Comments

For many users, the centered taskbar in Windows 11 is unfamiliar. To make the transition a bit easier for users, we’ll take a look at whether there’s a way to align the taskbar to the left like in Windows 10.

Enable Tab groups in MS Edge Chromium

27. July 202127. August 2021 jannikreinhard

Tab groups are a useful feature in the Edge browser that I have become very accustomed to and that makes my work much easier. Unfortunately, this feature is not yet active as default and is located in the ExpermientelIen features of the Edge browser. In this blog I explain how you can activate this feature.

Set the Windows 10 background picture

24. July 202126. August 2021 jannikreinhard

With Intune it is very easy to change the backround picture of your devices. In this blog I explain how you can do this.

Setup an Modern Kiosk PC

22. July 202113. June 2022 jannikreinhard2 Comments

In this blog post I want to explain how to set up a Modern Kiosk PC. There are many use cases in companies where you don’t want to give the user complete access to Windows. Only one or selected applications should be allowed. Typical use cases would be:

a device that plays a video in a sales room
a device that is used for training of an application
a terminal where someone can give feedback

and many more…

Get the Application User Model ID (AUMID)

22. July 202127. August 2021 jannikreinhard

The AUMID is an ID which is assigned for each appliication installed on a device. It is used e.g. in the Kiosk multi app mode to select apps. Which possibilities exist to get this AUMID I want to explain you in this blog.

Configure device categories

18. July 202127. August 2021 jannikreinhard2 Comments

To group devices of certain departments or areas, Intune provides a function called Device Categories. These deivce categories have been available in Intune for a long time but are not really known by many. In this blog post we will take a closer look whats behind this function and what possibilities it offers.

The device categories function can be found in the MEM in the Devices menu. In the screenshot you can see 3 sample entries that I created for our tests. For the creation of a category only a name and optionally a description is needed.

Setup a Windows Autopilot test lab

17. July 202113. June 2022 jannikreinhard5 Comments

Many companies have a cloud-first strategy and are trying to move more and more on prem infrastructure to the cloud. This also includes the device management. With Covid 19, remote working was the new normal and many companies are facing the challenge of how to manage devices secure and comfortable in the home office.

With Intune, Microsoft has a very powerful solution to manage devices via the internet. In my blogs I would like to give insights into cloud device management and provide you helpful scripts and tools.

In this blog post I will start with a basic topic, it’s about how to set up Windows Autopilot Device from scratch. I explain how you can set up a test environment to gain experience with Windows 10 Autopilot or to test different things.