Have you ever come into the office to find that your critical line-of-business app fails to connect to your SQL server? After further investigation, you may find that your domain-joined is no longer on a “domain network” but is now on a public network. This will cause problems as a public network profile will also […]
Recently one AskVG reader “Jack Kitchen” contacted me regarding following problem: I am running Windows 7 SP1. I have this nagging problem in Device Manager, under Portable Devices. I have 6 items listed: “WPD FileSystem Volume Driver“. In their properties this message is displayed: “This device cannot start. (Code 10)“. I have searched and not […]
User photos stored in Active Directory can be used by applications like Outlook, Skype for Business (Lync) or SharePoint to display the picture of currently logged-in user in their interface. However, you can take even more advantage of Active Directory photos and use them as account pictures in Windows 10 (and other versions of Windows […]
In this weeks ‘What’s new in Microsoft Intune’ it was announced that the ability to uninstall built-in apps with an Intune configuration policy was now available, and it’s long overdue! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/fundamentals/whats-new#app-management However, it does come with some caveats: You cannot specify which apps to uninstall It’s a specific set of apps It’s all or nothing, […]
I’m happy to share some field notes and experiences with the Windows Autopilot White Glove feature which is available with the Windows 10 1903 release. I’ve done a lot of testing and engineering for a recent project which also included this brand new feature. First things first (Requirements) This is probably the most important information […]
In this blogpost I want show you how to use the Endpoint Protection (Bitlocker) policy within Intune to configure Bitlocker on Windows 10. With Endpoint Protection policies you can configure and enforce Bitlocker on your Windows 10 devices. With the old policies we could already enforce Bitlocker but not enforce the settings of Bitlocker. With […]
Windows 10 includes a huge number of security settings that can be applied to protect your computers from ransomware, viruses, and other malware. Because Microsoft makes the deployment of these settings available through many different sources and because every business environment is different, these settings are not configured by default. There are many ways to […]