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Cloudy: With a chance of Winget

May 31, 2021 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

This blog will be about my experience I had with Winget. Until now we only made use of Chocolatey but I was intrigued if Winget could be a good replacement. After reading some other blogs and information I decided to test it out myself. Just like always I am going to divide this blog in. There are 8 parts. Background information Installing the App installer Installing/removing applications Upgrading applications Winget ADMX Troubleshooting Winget Upload your own Apps Deploy all the…

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The Windows Driver Games

May 26, 2021 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

This blog will about what options you have when you need to deploy drivers while using Intune. I received a private message on the Technet community asking me to help out with some driver installation problems. There were 100 devices that needed a WLAN driver update. The devices had the build-in Microsoft Driver installed and for some reason, they need the have the Intel driver from 2020 installed. I guess I forgot to ask why? So what options do…

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Drive Letters: The Demon Barber of Sharepoint Street

May 12, 2021 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

This blog will show you how you could map some drive letters to a SharePoint site with a CSP. In one of my latest blogs, I showed you why you don’t necessarily need to hybrid join your devices to get an SSO to your on-premise file servers and legacy apps. I even showed you how you could map Drive letters by using a CSP in Intune. Like I showed you in an earlier blog ”DBD”: Devices Before Data. You need…

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IMECache: Attack of the Cleaner

May 10, 2021 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

This blog will show you what happens when you are trying to install a Win32app which is deployed by serviceui.exe and how to troubleshoot errors. Of course, I will show you how to solve a particular problem. I will divide this blog into 5 parts Describing each phase and where to find it in the log Background info about Serviceui.exe The problem itself Troubleshooting the Problem The Solution 1.Win32 App IME installation phases When you want to monitor or troubleshoot…

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Three Intune Power Settings outside Ebbing Missouri

May 5, 2021 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

This short blog will be about some new long-awaited Intune Power Settings. I guess everyone knows this problem. How to make sure your hard disk is not going to take a nap after some idle time? I am going to divide this blog into 2 parts. In the first part, I will show you which options you had until now. The second part will be about how we could do it in the future. Until now: Until now, you hadn’t…

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The Sysnative Witch Project

May 5, 2021 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

An old one, but still necessary when you are deploying a win32 app and you have to make sure some 64 bits registry keys are configured before you could install the application. I was inspired to write this blog after a question on the Technet community website about this topic. In this blog, I will first show you the differences where data is stored on a 64 bits device and secondly I will show you why deploying a 64 bits…

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Windows 10: The Sands of time

March 30, 2021 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

This short blog will be about some Windows 10 time sync issues and how to deal with them. It’s summertime again, time to set your clock one hour forward. Windows 10 has a built-in mechanism to configure the clock/time automatically for you. If it’s working, it’s great but yesterday some customers called. Their Windows 10 device did not automatically changed the system time. When you have admin privileges you can manually sync the time, but you don’t have this luxury…

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Remember fast startup

February 17, 2021 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

This short blog will be about a setting that still can cause problems. Fast startup was introduced in Windows 8 and is turned on by default if applicable. I totally forgot about this setting when deploying the modern workplace. It’s really nice your device has a fast startup, but it has some cons when you have configured Windows update like stated in step 6 from the Windows 10 in cloud configuration guide. Windows 10 in cloud configuration (microsoft.com) These steps…

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The Man Who Shot Office Hardware acceleration

September 10, 2020 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

This simple blog will be about why Outlook can be seriously lagging while typing. And I mean seriously lagging. Some letters will pop up 10/15 seconds after typing. The probability this issue will be resolved by buying a new laptop is very small. I have seen this happen on all kinds of devices, old and new devices. Open your Task Manager and look at gpu-engine. You will notice: GPU 0 – 3D This means Outlook is using hardware graphics acceleration. …

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The Windows firewall rises

July 22, 2020 rudyooms Comments 0 Comment

In this blog I’ll explain how to deploy your Windows firewall baseline policy rules into Intune. Configuring firewall rules on your Windows 10 device shouldn’t be forgotten. If you remember my blog about securing Windows 10 endpoints, you’ll know I recommend deploying it with a PowerShell script. When writing this blog, the Microsoft defender firewall rule migration tool was released. Of course, I tested it, but it didn’t work out great at the time. Trying to change imported firewall rules…

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