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Disable users’ self service license trials

One day I came across an option in Microsoft 365 to disable the users’ self service trials. You must have seen it happening in your tenants, users with free licenses for Power Automate, Teams or Power BI. I will show you how to disable those and only let administrators buy and assign new licenses. Why should you disable trial licenses? You can disable self service trial licenses if you want to avoid users to use un-accepted apps. This could result Read more

By Justin, ago

Azure Virtual Desktop RDP Properties

In this post, we will be looking at the most popular different RDP Properties we can use in Azure Virtual Desktop. I will be talking about local PC’s and remote PC’s alot, where the remote PC is of course the Azure Virtual Desktop host and the local PC is the device you can physically touch. What are RDP properties? RDP properties are specific settings to change your RDP experience. This can be to play sound on the remote or local Read more

By Justin, ago

ARM templates and Azure VM + Script deployment

In Azure we can deploy ARM templates (+ script afterwards) to deploy resources on a big scale. This is like an easier version Terraform and Bicep, but without the great need to test every change and to learn a whole new language and convention. Also with less features indeed. In this post I will show some examples of deploying with ARM templates and also will show you how to deploy a PowerShell script to run directly after the deployment of Read more

By Justin, ago

Windows Server Inventory Report Script

To help us IT identifying certain configurations on a server and possible misconfigurations I have made a PowerShell script which creates a complete overview of the current server configuration and exports it as a single HTML file. In this post I will explain how to use it and how the script works. Where to download this script? For the fast pass, my script can be downloaded here: What does the Server Inventory script do? The script I have made creates Read more

By Justin, ago

Disable Windows Taskbar Widgets through Intune

Today a short guide on how to disable Windows Taskbar widgets through Intune. I mean this part of the Windows 11 taskbar: Method 1: Settings Catalog The easiest way to disable these widgets is through a Settings Catalog policy. Open up Microsoft Intune admin center and create a new policy through the Settings Catalog. Search for “widget” and these options are available: In my case, I have set all three options to disabled/Not allowed. After you have assigned this to Read more

By Justin, ago

Using and configuring Windows Backup for Organizations in Intune

Microsoft just released a new feature, Windows Backup for Organizations, which is a revolution on top of the older Enterprise State Roaming. Windows Backup for Organizations will help you and your users by saving different components of your Windows installation to make a the proces of a new installation or computer much easier. Especially when used with Windows Autopilot, this is a great addition to the whole Windows/Intune ecosystem. In this guide I will dive into how it works, what Read more

By Justin, ago

Remove Pre-installed Windows Store Apps with Intune

Since the latest Windows 25H2 update, we have a great new feature. We can now remove pre-installed Windows Store Applications which we don’t want to ship with our devices. This helps us alot with both Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop Personal deployments as with normal Intune-joined devices. The only downside is that Pooled Azure Virtual Desktop Deployments are not supported. In this guide I will dive into this new setting and explain how to configure this and why this Read more

By Justin, ago

Customize Office apps installation for Azure Virtual Desktop

When deploying Microsoft Office apps to (pooled) Virtual Desktops, we mostly need to do some optimizations to the installation. We want to optimize performance on pooled and virtual machines, or maybe we want to enable shared computer activation because multiple users need the apps. In this guide I will show you how to customize the installation of Office apps, primarily for Virtual Desktops, but can be used on any Windows machine. Requirements What is the Office Configuration Tool? The Office Read more

By Justin, ago

Clean files on a schedule with Powershell script

Sometimes in IT, we have software or solutions that need to to save temporary files in your filesystem. Let’s say, a feed with logs or CSV files that are saved, logs or back-ups like the Bartender software. The software itself doesn’t have a solution to clean up those files and after 2 years, the size can be massive. To let this files clean on schedule I have created a Powershell script which cleans those files in specific folders after they Read more

By Justin, ago

Automatic Azure Boot diagnostics monitoring with Azure Policy

In Azure, we can configure Boot diagnostics to view the status of a virtual machine and connect to its serial console. However, this must be configured manually. The good part is that we can automate this process with Azure Policy. In this post I will explain step-by-step how to configure this and how to start using this in your own environment. In short, Azure Policy is a compliance/governance tool in Azure with capabilities for automatically pushing your resources to be Read more

By Justin, ago