Autor: David Lienhard
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Windows Secure Boot Certificate renewal in June 2026
Beitrag lesen: Windows Secure Boot Certificate renewal in June 2026With the renewal of the Secure Boot Certificate in Windows in June 2026, a major milestore regarding endpoint security is coming up. Three crucial certificates are about to expire this June and October: This is documented in Microsoft’s KB 5062710 at Windows Secure Boot certificate expiration and CA updates As this is an important update,…
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Automated Confluence Cloud Backup using the API
Beitrag lesen: Automated Confluence Cloud Backup using the APIWe are using Confluence a lot for our documentations and therefore it’s an important tool for us. And as much as we trust Atlassian to manage their stuff and not lose any data, we still prefer to have a backup in our hands. So we did some research on how to backup Confluence as automated…
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Renewal of Microsoft Intune MDM Root Certificate in August 2026
Beitrag lesen: Renewal of Microsoft Intune MDM Root Certificate in August 2026This summer could get interesting for Intune Engineers as the Microsoft Intune Root Certificate will be renewed. The «old» certificate will expire on the 12 August and be replaced with a new one, expiring in September 2030. This first requires the new root and intermediate certificate to be available on the device and the Intune…
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Disable MDM enrollment when Adding Work Account
Beitrag lesen: Disable MDM enrollment when Adding Work AccountWe all know the issue: A user adds his Business Account on his personal device and when logging in, the following message appears: If the user does not pay attention and clears the checkbox at the «Allow my organization to manage my device» and the user is in the Scope for MDM enrollment, this will…
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Deploying Python Azure Functions on Flex Consumption
Beitrag lesen: Deploying Python Azure Functions on Flex ConsumptionWe are using a few automations based on Azure Functions, some based on Python, others on PowerShell. Recently we have encountered some issues with one automation running on a Consumption based function with PowerShell. The function is querying the API of our back-office system for some analytics and has been timing out after the 10…
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Run Win32 Apps from Intune in 64 Bit PowerShell
Beitrag lesen: Run Win32 Apps from Intune in 64 Bit PowerShellAs you may know (or have not realised so far) is that all your Win32 apps in Intune are being run in the 32 Bit environment. Usually this is not an issue as most executables elevate themselves into the 64 Bit environment if required. But there are some edge cases, where this is relevant, like…
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Custom Device-Inventory with Intune
Beitrag lesen: Custom Device-Inventory with IntuneWhile Intune stores some information about the devices it manages, at some point you will need some additional data. And with some extra steps, it is possible to fetch a custom inventory from the devices. In this blog, we are going to fetch the Windows 11 readiness of all managed devices. This is done with…
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Intune Adventures: The Curious Case of the Disappearing Network Drives
Beitrag lesen: Intune Adventures: The Curious Case of the Disappearing Network DrivesRecently, we experienced some issues with a Customer after removing a Network Drive from the Computers that had been mapped via Intune. And it was surely not the kind of issue we would have expected. But let’s begin from the start. We have been managing the Network Drives for that customer via Intune for quite…
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Using device product key to activate Windows
Beitrag lesen: Using device product key to activate WindowsDuring a recent project, we encountered issues with Windows 11 not being activated on newly purchased and deployed devices. This was quite surprising, given that the devices were bought with a valid Windows 11 licence. After some digging, we notice that the licence key currently being used ended with –T83GX and after running that through…