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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
The Microsoft Intune Suite is Dead! Long Live the Microsoft Intune Suite
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The Microsoft Intune Suite is Dead! Long Live the Microsoft Intune Suite!
Back in the heady days of March 2023, the Microsoft Intune team made a big announcement: they were going to bring a suite of advanced endpoint management capabilities called the Microsoft Intune...
Bryan Dam
Finally Control Over the Allow My Organization to Manage My Device Promp
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Finally: Control Over the “Allow My Organization to Manage My Device” Prompt
Windows has a habit of prompting users the moment they add a work or school account: “Allow my organization to manage my device.” Most users just click straight through it, but that tiny...
Rudy Ooms
Company Portal Stuck on Downloading Intune Token Error IDX12729 and 0x80131040
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When the Company Portal Gets Stuck on Downloading: The Hidden IME Issue Behind It
This blog is about a strange Win32 app installation issue where the Company Portal stayed stuck on “Downloading” even though everything seemed to be perfectly fine. We’ll walk through what the...
Rudy Ooms
Intune Policy Tattooing Issue Removed Settings Stay Enforced
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Intune Policy Tattooing Issue: Removed Settings Stay Enforced
In this blog, we’ll walk through a strange case of the Intune Policy Tattooing Issue (Yes, a new tattooing issue), where every deleted setting refused to be removed from ALL devices. We’ll...
Rudy Ooms
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The New Windows Quality Update Management Policies
This blog zooms in on the new Windows Quality Update Management Policies showing up on the public Intune roadmap and being partially referenced at Ignite. Please note: This blog is based on...
Rudy Ooms
Windows Recovery and Remediation for Quick Machine Recovery
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Windows Recovery and Remediation
Wouldn’t it be nice if we finally had real controls for Quick Machine Recovery?Something that lets you trigger remediation when the device is already past the point of no return? Well… something...
Rudy Ooms