As IT administrator, you may want/need to remove preinstalled/default Windows Store apps (such as Solitaire, Feedback hub or Clipchamp). Until now, you had either to use script or deploy these applications from Intune in uninstall mode. Unfortunately, this does not block end-user to install again these applications (even if they eventually will be uninstalled again). […]
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Phone Link, previously known as Your Phone, is a Windows app that allows connecting Android or iOS phones to Windows computers. It enables access and manage various phone features directly from their PC, such as texts, calls, notifications, and photos. Well, recently, I faced the “This feature has been blocked by your system administrator” error
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Well, another one bit the dust but this time is more related to a third party security product – ThreatLocker (Enterprise Cybersecurity Solutions | ThreatLocker) – wrongly blocking DLL’s patched with Hotpatch. If you have read my previous post (Intune / Windows ARM – Issue with May 2025 Patch Tuesday on ARM devices) about Hotpatch
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As you know, Windows devices with OneDrive client allows your end-users to redirect their personal folders (Documents, Desktop….) to OneDrive. This allows leveraging some security capabilities provided by SharePoint Online/OneDrive, such as versioning or ability to recover complete OneDrive space in case of corruption or encryption by malware. This also replace the ‘old school’ roaming
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The wait is over, the latest release of Windows 11 is now available for download and deployment. With this release, this also marks the end of support for Windows 10. You still have few months anyway as the official end of support for Windows 10 is October 14th, 2025 after this date your Windows 10
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As you know, with Intune you can control when Windows Updates are being deployed using Update Rings profile. Well, starting October 2024, Windows 11 22H2 or later will start getting automatically any quality updates (aka Patch Tuesday updates) during the Out Of the Box Experience during the enrollment process. This means starting October, the enrollment
As you know, we running workloads in the cloud cost management is an important part of your governance. In Azure, you have multiple ways to manage your spending (running) cost; one of them is setting up a spending limit at your subscription level (such as with developer subscription [aka Visual Studio subscription]). Well, if you
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As you are probably aware, since Windows 10 2004 you can install Subsystem for Linux on Windows to allow use both Windows and Linux at the same time (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install/). Unfortunately, until now you could not manage Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) using Intune. Well, good news as now the settings for WSL are available
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As you probably already know, a new version of Windows 11 – 23H2 – was coming. Well, good news as this 23H2 version is now available. You can download it from your Visual Studio subscription (https://my.visualstudio.com/), using the Windows Media Creation Tool (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11) or even by using Intune Feature Update policy. NOTE I’m
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As you know, with Intune you can create Windows Feature Updates policies to manage Windows upgrade when a new version is released. Until now, it was not easy to deal with devices which did not meet the requirements for deploying Windows 11 versions. Well, good news as now you have an option to automatically exclude
