Last Update: Jun 06, 2025
Intune Administrators can deploy, make optionally available, or uninstall Win32 apps with the help of Windows 10’s Intune Management Extension (IME). The IME is a service installed on Windows 10 that acts as the engine to execute these actions and, additionally, PowerShell scripts (which were originally its only purpose). Win32 apps in the context of…

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Microsoft announced at its recent Ignite conference that WAC in the Azure Portal in now available in public preview. Prior to this update, it was only possible to manage VMs at the infrastructure level in the Azure Portal. But WAC in the Azure Portal lets administrators manage Windows Server VM guests at a more granular…

Petri’s GET-IT Practitioners Guide to Ignite is designed to help keep you updated on the key announcements from Microsoft’s second virtual installment of their largest IT Pro conference.

Last Update: Jun 07, 2025
Here is the simple way to set an out of office message using Microsoft Teams.
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Welcome to SharePoint Lists! – At least that’s how Microsoft likely worded their introduction back in 2001 (Wow!). The purpose of this post is to give a little background on what a SharePoint List is, the evolution over the years to the newer ‘Modern List’ in mid-to-late 2016, and the announcement of the new Microsoft…

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
To protect data at rest on your Intune-managed Windows devices, BitLocker disk encryption can be applied automatically using the BitLocker CSP. If you are deploying devices with Autopilot, this will also allow you to encrypt them at the time of deployment. Existing devices will be encrypted as soon as the device checks in with Intune…

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last week, you could not have missed that the Microsoft 365 world has been abuzz with worry after Exchange Server 2010-2019 succumbed to zero-day exploits, believed to being used by a group known as HAFNIUM. These exploits are allowing an attacker to compromise Exchange and…

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
If you are getting started with Microsoft 365 groups, here’s an introduction to how the tool works and how to setup a group.

I am frequently left somewhere between amused and exasperated when reading a statement that Windows Server is “dead” or listen to an industry commentator question the release of Windows Server.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
If you do not want to receive the Cortana Daily Briefing email for yourself, your tenant, or a group of users – this is how you turn that off.