Mar 12You must not touch my endpoint security settings!Intune Endpoint Security Configuration Settings have become the way to go for configuring security features on various platforms. What did start with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint settings for Windows clients has evolved to settings for macOS, Windows Servers and is treated like a first class citizen. …Sentinel4 min readSentinel4 min read
Feb 22Optimising Microsoft Graph PowerShell scriptsWe all have probably been there and developed a PowerShell script that took some fair amount of time until the execution completed, weren’t we? Of course one could argue and say that as long a script ‘works’ it is good enough but depending on the use case and environment a…Microsoft Graph9 min readMicrosoft Graph9 min read
Jan 30Migrating to the new Windows Store experienceThe Microsoft Store for Business will be discontinued mid 2023 and Intune recently introduced the new Windows Store experience backed by winget to distribute apps to your Intune managed endpoints. To simplify the migration to the new Windows Store experience I created a PowerShell Script that migrates all currently assigned…Winget2 min readWinget2 min read
Jan 23GitHub Actions with Entra Workload Identity FederationWorkload Identity Federation (let’s just call this WIF) allows app principals not residing within Azure to request short lived access tokens. This removes the need of storing client secrets or certificates within GitHub as Action secrets. One drawback ist that currently only the Azure modules support the usage of WIF. How it works …Azure Ad3 min readAzure Ad3 min read
Dec 30, 2022Inside Windows package managerWindows Package Manager (winget) provides exciting features to install and upgrade apps on Windows devices. But how does winget actually work and how are new packages integrated? Within this post I want to elaborate on some questions I had when having a closer look into winget. How does winget find sources? By default, winget has…Windows4 min readWindows4 min read
