Local Admin Password Solution has come a long way and the March 2025 Update (Service release 2503) had some good enhancements for the solution. Randomizing the LAPS username is one of them. Rather than enabling the local Administrator account or creating a special admin account for LAPS, having an auto randomizing username sounds confusing to … Continue reading Configure Windows LAPS in Intune – March 2025 Update
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How to Use Intune to Create a Dell BIOS Config Profile?
Creating BIOS Configs and ingesting it during the imaging process is a tad bit old school when you think about moving to newer technologies that can do the same. Microsoft Intune recently introduced the BIOS Config Profile as a template in Intune. At this stage, DELL devices can be set up with this. At the … Continue reading How to Use Intune to Create a Dell BIOS Config Profile?
Don’t Mess Around with MDM User Scopes – A Different Take to “Something Went Wrong 8004005” and “OOBEAADV10” Errors
Something went horribly wrong. Not the policies. Not the deployment profiles, Not the ODJ profile, not the ESP. Let me explain. Setup in a high-level Intune Connector setup Intune Connector account is licensed and the Intune admin role assigned OU delegation done Hybrid Join GPO has setup MDM Auto-enrollment GPO has set Autopilot deployment profiles … Continue reading Don’t Mess Around with MDM User Scopes – A Different Take to “Something Went Wrong 8004005” and “OOBEAADV10” Errors
Enrolling Linux Devices and Setting Compiance Policies in Intune
My morning coffee hit me in a very different way this morning. I've been sitting on the whole Linux enrollment feature introduced a few weeks ago and this morning I thought I need to do it. This is an early look at the Linux Enrollment and what Compliance Policies are available from Intune. What I … Continue reading Enrolling Linux Devices and Setting Compiance Policies in Intune
Intune to Configure and Lock DFCI for Autopilot Devices
How handy it will be to manage the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) settings of the enrolled devices? That's exactly what I'm going to explore in this article. What I will be covering 👇🏾 What is DFCI? (Device Firmware Configuration Interface)Use CasesDFCI LifecycleRequirements and OEM Vendor SupportOEM Vendor SupportIntune to Manage DFCI?Intune Device Configueration ProfileWrapping … Continue reading Intune to Configure and Lock DFCI for Autopilot Devices
New and Updated Microsoft Intune Device Control Policy Settings
New day new blog post. This is more of an updated guide to what I've written some time ago (check below) https://shehanperera.com/2022/08/06/mem-device-control-1/ What I Will Be Covering? 👇🏽 What's New?🌟 Apply layered order of evaluation for Allow and Prevent device installation policies across all device match criteria🌟 Removable Storage Access🌟 Defender Scanning (this setting can … Continue reading New and Updated Microsoft Intune Device Control Policy Settings
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