Holding back the upgrade to Windows 11 with Intune

With Windows 11 pushing its way towards your environment’s devices, you may find the need to hold back this upgrade to some or maybe all your devices, for any reason. Holding back the upgrade can be done via Intune for easy deployment to your devices. Script can be found in the post.

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Solved: Logitech Webcam + Citrix CVAD seamless apps = reconnection problem

Sometimes its the small things causing problems in IT. Alot of hardware, drivers, software etc, can make a mess of each other. Recently I experienced this with the combination of Citrix Published Applications and a device from Logitech. Read on for details.

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Manageability – Part 1: Naming Conventions

When it comes to managing anything within IT, it will always be a good thing to keep things organized, in one way or another. You should also make sure that the way you organize things, is made understandable for others as well (maybe you share the responsibility of management with a group, or may do so in the future).
Make it a habit to creating an organizational model that others can jump in or out of over time, that is logical and understandable by others than yourself. Document the logic/model that is defined, and make sure not to deviate from the actual definition as time goes by.

Office 365 Splash

Security: O365 – did you remember to disable legacy authentication before October 13, 2020?

If you have kept up to date with the many announcements around 365 – spesifically Exchange Online, from Microsoft, you may remember that they announced that end of support for basic authentication were coming to various parts of Exchange Online in 365.
Subscribers of O/M365 should move to using modern authentication, as this is more secure and gives alot of other benefits.
The said date for this change was set to October 13 2020,

Security: How to enable sign-in with FIDO2 security keys on Windows 10 Devices and Azure AD

FIDO2 security keys are an unphishable standards-based passwordless authentication method that can come in any form factor. Fast Identity Online (FIDO) is an open standard for passwordless authentication. FIDO allows users and organizations to leverage the standard to sign in to their resources without a username or password using an external security key or a platform key built into a device. Read the post to see how you can enable this for your Azure ad and windows 10 devices.

Intune: Setting custom wallpaper and lockscreen on Windows 10 devices with PowerShell and Azure Storage Blobs

Many organizations want to deploy custom branded wallpapers and lockscreens on corporate managed devices. Doing this with Microsoft Intune is natively limited to Windows 10 Enterprise and Education. Follow this guide to see how you can do this with Intune and PowerShell toghether with Azure Storage Blobs.

Office 365 Splash

Office 365: Hvordan be om flytting av dine 365 data til Norge.

april ble det mulighet for å ha Office 365 kjernedata lokalisert til Norsk lokasjon hos Microsoft.
Dersom du har 365 tjenester idag, så er disse ved annen lokasjon i Europa, og dersom du ønsker det, kan du nå be om å få dette “tidlig” flyttet til Norge.
Ett begrenset opt-in vindu er nå tilgjengelig i 6 måneder for å be om tidlig migrering. Etter dette vil det være betydelig vanskeligere å få gjennomført migrering til Norge. Les mer for å se hvordan du ber om flytting.

Microsoft Server 2019: No window border/allwhite issue

In windows server 2019 and windows 10. There is an issue in the RDS world where the windows overlapping each other appears to have no border (its all white) Making it hard to distinguish the various windows from each other. This can be fixed with the steps in this post.

Citrix: Google Chrome – No audio in ICA session after version 77

Update 10.04.2020 This also goes for the Chromium based Microsoft Edge. Registry path for edge is:“Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge”HKLM or HKCU depending on your needThe value is the same as for Chrome below. If you are experiencing missing audio playback in Google Chrome inside an ICA session. Check if your version is above v77 of Chrome.If you are, Read more about Citrix: Google Chrome – No audio in ICA session after version 77[…]

Microsoft Server 2019: NPS Firewall issue

Just a quick heads up for those seeing this.

There seem to be issues with the Windows firewall on Server 2019, especially around NPS and port 1812.
(I have not checked other ports, but the issue may also apply elsewhere, so give me a heads up if you find other similar issues)

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