Real-world guides, troubleshooting and deployment solutions for Intune, ConfigMgr, Windows and Endpoint Management.
Authoring AppLocker policy for Intune usually means either the Group Policy editor (which doesn’t understand Intune’s OMA-URI format) or hand-editing XML. I built a WPF app that handles …
I added a public landing page to a Blazor Server app and it rendered as a blank white screen — not just that page, every page, for every anonymous user. No server-side exception. The cause was a …
Policies, compliance, app deployment and day-to-day troubleshooting.
ExploreProfiles, the Enrollment Status Page, device prep and hybrid join.
ExploreConditional Access, identity protection, app registrations and groups.
ExploreCloud PC sizing, provisioning, and licensing.
ExploreCo-management, task sequences, and the move to Intune.
ExploreZero Trust, Defender, Copilot and licensing bundles.
ExploreAuthoring AppLocker policy for Intune usually means either the Group Policy editor (which doesn’t understand Intune’s OMA-URI format) or …
I added a public landing page to a Blazor Server app and it rendered as a blank white screen — not just that page, every page, for every anonymous user. No …
az webapp deploy kept throwing rsync warnings I’d learned to ignore as noise. They weren’t noise — Compress-Archive was writing backslash paths into …
Three bugs I hit building CET2, none of which showed up in the docs, and none of which threw the error you’d expect: a PowerShell type-coercion trap, a …
MDE’s deployment tool installs fine on Ubuntu 26.04 — right up until a removed apt-key, a repo it clobbers itself, and a phantom ‘apt is busy’ …
cert-manager sat on ’not yet propagated’ while the TXT record was demonstrably live. The catch: it checks propagation through the cluster’s …
Excel now supports editing and running Python code in-app. Here’s how to enable it, best practices for rollout, and common issues to watch for.
Intune now supports Declarative Device Management for required Apple VPP apps on iOS/iPadOS 17.2+ and macOS 26+. Here’s what admins need to know.
How Automatic App Installation lets IT admins push apps and scripts to devices before a user logs in, cutting first-day downtime and setup errors.
I'm a UK-based Microsoft Endpoint Management Engineer with 25+ years designing, deploying and supporting Windows devices in enterprise environments — these days mostly Intune, ConfigMgr and Windows Autopilot.
Off the clock I'm in Liverpool — widowed dad of five, though they're all grown now (26 to 42), so the house is a lot quieter than it used to be. Spare time these days mostly goes into World of Warcraft, playing Alliance Protection Paladin (yes, I tank), or slowly expanding an Ultramarines army that never quite finishes painting itself. Don't ask me about football, I've got no idea who's doing well; ask me about Intune instead and I probably won't stop talking.
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