Azure Dynamic Groups is a feature that allows you to automatically add users to a deployment group based on certain criteria. This can be useful when you want to ensure that users have the appropriate licenses and permissions to access the resources in the deployment group. To use Azure Dynamic Groups, first you will need…
Is your Hyper-V Virtual Machine not stopping? Is it being a PITA even after rebooting? Do you just want to strangle the process until even it’s children become non-responsive (that wasn’t an unnecessarily dark comment – there IS a nerd joke hidden in there somewhere). Then you’ve come to the right place! I primarily use…
One of my favorite policies to implement is the User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for both standard and administrator accounts. I tend to just outright block CMD and powershell for standard users and force an elevation prompt for admins. It’s low hanging fruit, sure, but is generally considered best practice. But what if…
Endpoint USB-block security settings are a critical measure in preventing attacks. Uncontrolled installation of USB devices creates entry points for malware and raises the risk of data theft. Administrators can use Microsoft Intune to prevent end users from installing USB peripherals on their computers. Intune has profiles for various types of devices. IOS/iPadOS, Android, Android…
Now this is an either / or guide. In order to join a device to both an On-Premise instance of Active Directory and Azure AD require a hybrid join. Which I will eventually be covering at some point. Just not as part of the Basics Tag series. On top of that, this is going to be a…
Following on two of my previous blog posts: How to Download Windows 10 with MediaCreationTool How to Directly Download a Windows ISO It’s your boy! So now we’ve got our payload. How do we use it? We actually have multiple options. The first being installing Windows as a Virtual Machine – meaning that we’ll be…
In the process of starting this blog, I’ve found myself starting posts and then stopping because I find the posts becoming waaaay too long with supplemental (but still necessary, imho 😅) background information. So I write away and trim so much that I eventually end up deciding to take those trimmings just to make a…
So you either didn’t use your OEM or Retail product key during installation or you decided to activate WINS2022 after the evaluation period? Do you recognize this error? “the product key you entered didn’t work. Check the product key and try again, or enter a different one. (0x80041023)”? Forget using the GUI. We’re going to…
All you want is a Windows 10 ISO! How can it be that hard to get ahold of? You’re clearly not a macOS user who has needed to get an older version of macOS for whatever reason. As an aside, before Windows 10 “won me back”, I specialized in Linux servers and macOS endpoints up until…
If you recognize the term Intune then you’re probably not new to the Microsoft Cloud Experience. Now if you’re more familiar with the term Microsoft Endpoint Manager…! No, let’s just stick to Intune for now. That is because Microsoft has a pretty awesome piece of Mobile Device Management (MDM) tech that it uses to manage an organizations’…