Remote Workplace

Intune – Deploy required user settings to Windows 10 with powershell

Martin Wüthrich Application Management, Azure AD, Client Settings, EMM, General, Intune, MDM, Operating System Deployment, Powershell, Remote Workplace, Windows 10

In this blog I would like to describe, how I managed to set required user settings to Windows 10.
Since I still do have an On-Premises environment, in which also File Servers reside and a DFS Namespace is still up and running, I wanted to make sure to get the advantages of using the local network.
So here are my two use-cases to solve:
1. Add a Network location for the DFS Path if the user is logged on On-Premises
2. Modify the local “host” file, to redirect the workfolder clients to the file server internally
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Intune – Configure “Fast startup” (HiberBoot) for Windows 10

Martin Wüthrich Azure AD, homelab, MDM, Remote Workplace, Windows 10

Since I changed my clients from GPO managed to Intune controlled, not all settings from GPO, but some of them needs to be set through Intune as well. As outlined in my previous blog, I tried to disable the Fast Startup Option on Windows 10 through a CSP. And I did not even found a CSP supporting this setting. Within this blog, I would like to show, how you can configure the fast startup (“Turn on fast startup (recommended)”) setting in Windows 10 through Microsoft Intune:

You may ask, why I want to disable this? My reason: I don’t want to reuse a desktop session which was hibernated. And only a reboot will force the client to create a new desktop session, if fast startup is enabled.
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Windows 10 settings management with Intune

Martin Wüthrich Azure AD, Client Settings, Endpoint Protection, homelab, MDM, Office365, Remote Workplace, Windows 10

When a journey ends, a new journey will begin. My journey with the old school domain joined and GPO managed devices within my LAB ended, and I finally conquer new areas with Azure AD join and Intune controlled devices. Due to the lack of opportunities, I still waited so long, because a lot of settings were not possible to set. And some of them are still not that simple to set through Intune, but there is a solution for, I would like to say, most of the requirements.

So within this blog post, I would like to document my current knowledge of Windows 10 settings management through Intune. As today, we have the following options to configure GPO alike settings through Microsoft Intune:

  • Intune Windows Enrollment settings
  • Intune Portal blade settings
  • Intune Portal Custom CSP settings
  • Intune ADMX-backed administrative template settings (Preview)
  • PowerShell Script

    • Let’s have a closer look to the different options.
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    Implement Microsoft Windows Store for Business and Windows 10 Mobile

    Martin Wüthrich Application Management, EMM, MDM, Remote Workplace, Software Deployment, Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile

    Today I would like to show you how the newly available Microsoft Windows Store for Business works, and how you implement it for your Windows 10 Mobile users.
    The most interesting part for Businesses with the new Store is the fact, that end users do not longer need a Microsoft Account (which is the former Live-ID or MSN Account long time ago), instead they can download and install applications from the store with their Organizational or what I would call them with the Azure Active Directory Account.
    To activate the Business Store for your Azure Tenant, you will need to have an Account with the Global Administrator permission (Source). With this account, you can go on to this Location and sign-up for the Business Store. Continue reading →