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The Secure Boot Status Report Coming soon to Intune
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The Secure Boot Status Report: Coming soon to Intune
Most admins already found the Secure Boot policy in Intune. That’s not the problem. The problem is what happens after you assign it… and Intune tells you nothing useful. No progress view. No...
Autopilot Hybrid Join Failure 80004005 and a Malformed id_token
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Autopilot Hybrid Join Failure: 80004005 and a Malformed id_token
It starts with the most frustrating kind of failure. A user signs in during Autopilot, the company-branded login appears, authentication succeeds, and then Windows immediately displays the generic...
Rudy Ooms
Local Autopilot Reset blocked by “Deny network logon”
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Local Autopilot Reset blocked by “Deny network logon”
Performing a Local Autopilot Reset from the lock screen is meant for the moments where a device is stuck, and you just want to bring it back to a clean state. You press Ctrl + Win + R, enter local...
Rudy Ooms
Policy is rejected by licensing Error Code 0x82B00006
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Policy is rejected by licensing: Error Code 0x82B00006
This blog dives into what “Policy is rejected by licensing” actually means inside Windows, why that decision is not based on what Intune reports or what the Microsoft docs promise, and which...
Rudy Ooms
Entra Join Shows No Password Prompt The User Realm Issue
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Entra Join Shows No Password Prompt: The User Realm Issue
This blog is about an Entra Join failure that made no sense at all. No password prompt, no authentication errors, no event logs, just a silent loop back to the username field. Everything pointed...
Rudy Ooms
Intune Firewall Rules Breaking After Changes IT1214934
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Intune Firewall Rules Breaking After Changes: IT1214934
If you recently changed or added firewall rules in Intune and the outcome felt unpredictable, you are not imagining things. Microsoft has published a service health message (IT1214934)...
Rudy Ooms
What Really Happens When You Press Remote Sync in Intune
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What Really Happens When You Press Remote Sync in Intune
Pressing the Sync button in Intune looks simple, but it is not a command sent straight to the device. It sends a signal, and then Windows decides if and when anything should run. This blog explains,...
Rudy Ooms
LocalNetworkAccessAllowedForUrls The Policy You Never Deployed
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The LocalNetworkAccessAllowedForUrls policy you never deployed
This blog examines why LocalNetworkAccessAllowedForUrls appeared on managed devices without being deployed from Intune. It also explains why Edge and Chrome treated it as an organization policy and...
Rudy Ooms
How Intune Syncs Work PowerShell and Win32 App Delivery vs Policy Delivery
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How Intune Syncs Work: PowerShell and Win32 App Delivery vs Policy Delivery
This blog is about why Intune behaviour often feels inconsistent, even when everything is configured correctly. The answer isn’t timing. It’s the architecture behind it. Intune doesn’t use a...
Rudy Ooms
PowerShell Script Installer Support for Win32Apps
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PowerShell Script Installer Support for Win32 apps in Intune
This blog is about a new Intune feature that briefly appeared in Microsoft documentation: PowerShell script installer support for Win32 apps. The feature was documented, discussed in the community,...
Rudy Ooms