Daniel Ratliff

Gathering Data for a Windows Hello for Business Rollout A guide to gathering data for a successful Windows Hello For Business rollout using Microsoft Intune detection scripts.

Ever wonder what the state of your devices look like for a Windows Hello for Business rollout? How many user accounts are on devices, what sort of biometrics are available? Here's a blog post with some helpful #Intune detection scripts to gather that data.

joeloveless.com/2025/08/gath...

GitHub - potatoqualitee/eol-dr: 🕊️ A crowd-sourced guide to help techs help their non-tech spouses / partners / parents / kids when we are at the end-of-life 🕊️ A crowd-sourced guide to help techs help their non-tech spouses / partners / parents / kids when we are at the end-of-life - potatoqualitee/eol-dr

What happens to all your techy things when you are no longer able to look after them?
Your homelab? home network? smart things?

@funbucket.dev has created this to help you to help those left behind
github.com/potatoqualit...

Pro tip: always check the Urban Dictionary before you settle on an acronym for your new IT system

If you use CIS Benchmarks, I highly advise against this recommendation...

This disables cloud delivered protection which underpins a bunch of capabilities, disables roughly half of your protection

Fortunately, if you enable Tamper Protection, it is forcefully enabled for you :)

Andrew Taylor Steven Weiner Jannik Reinhard Jeroen Burgerhout ☁️ Johan Arwidmark Ugur Koc Joery Van den Bosch Somesh Pathak [MVP] 🇳🇱 Harjit Dhaliwal Michael Niehaus Niklas Tinner Oktay Sari

Today, we announce the Intune speakers for #WPNinjas in Dallas, TX 12/9-12/10. 4 days left on Early Bird pricing for $350: workplaceninjas.us

@andrewstaylor.com @getrubix.bsky.social @jannikr.bsky.social@jarwidmark.bsky.social @ugurkoc.de
Find the full list in the alt text! #MVPBuzz #WPNinjas

This is what the internet was made for. More real life Easter eggs please.

SoftRAM box

Remember when you could just double your memory using software?

Troubleshooting walkthrough: Cascade Into Darkness

This is a real issue I solved in Windows, the hurdles I faced, and what I'd do differently.

🐥🐥YOU CAN MUTE JUST THIS CONVERSATION THREAD🐥🐥

It starts with the user editing "HKLM\HARDWARE" and misunderstanding an instruction and breaking Windows.

GitHub - AndrewPla/PowerShellPranks: A collection of harmless (but hilarious) PowerShell pranks contributed by the community. Just enough mischief to make your coworkers raise an eyebrow (and hopefull... A collection of harmless (but hilarious) PowerShell pranks contributed by the community. Just enough mischief to make your coworkers raise an eyebrow (and hopefully laugh) - AndrewPla/PowerShellPranks

Time to get your prank on!!

#Powershell #fun #pranks #jokes

github.com/AndrewPla/Po...

Ten Years Toasting: BurntToast Hits the Big v1! It's been a long, eventful, decade. The perfect amount of time to burn some toast!

#BurntToast v1 is LIVE!

#powershell toastit.dev/2025/07/22/b...

In the future when every service is privately owned and for-profit, the Earth will anxiously watch as the asteroid defense system has 15 secs to save the planet, but has to wait for the 30 second ad to play before it can engage.

Nice, congrats!

So exciting! Is that the FW12 and if so, would love to know what batch you were in. I am in batch 3 and can't wait!

Dearest @swiftonsecurity.com, from our conversation last year over on X about managing endpoint policies in the enterprise. Beware, novel ahead.

potentengineer.com/2025/07/02/m...

#sysadmin #itpro #configmgr #intune #mdm #grouppolicy

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

Getting Started with Microsoft Graph A guide to Microsoft Graph

Today I wrote a post about Getting Started with Microsoft Graph. I look into building a delegated app, authenticating using different methods, and building a script using different methods.

#intune #microsoft #powershell #graphapi

joeloveless.com/2025/07/gett...

YouTube video by PowerShell Conference EU Ben Reader - Intune Programmatically: Provision Intune environment using Plaster, Azure

Hey #PowerShell nerds - I was just talking to @allwayshype.com about a session I did at @psconf.eu back in 2019 (the before times) and I had a question....

Does anyone still use plaster? if so, let me know what you are using it for below!

Microsoft just dropped a banger spreadsheet to help you level up your security! 🚀

It's a FREE Zero Trust assessment tool with a clear roadmap covering SIX key pillars.

Let's break it down! 👇

👥 Identity
📱 Devices
📊 Data
🌐 Network
🏗️ Infrastructure
🕵️‍♀️ Security Operations

Intune Multi-tenant Organization Strategy Organizations experiencing frequent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) often operate in a persistent multi-tenant environment. While Microsoft Intune does not...

Microsoft's guidance for tenant-to-tenant Intune migrations (like, for corporate M&A scenarios, with the end goal being tenant consolidation):

techcommunity.micros...

Screenshot of a post from the PC master race subreddit. It says "Man please stop dodging me I'm trying to conserve minuscule amounts of cpu/memory". Below, a photo of someone banging their desk with the text "When I try to end a task in task manager just for the app to jump to another spot causing me to end some other fuckass app"

If you hold CTRL, it will pause Task Manager so the processes don't move around when you're sorted by resource usage

They snuck it in early this year. It is pretty good at organizing!

🚨 Intune Sync Update 🔄

📌 Task: “Schedule #3 created by enrollment client”
now syncs every 3h 50m (was ~8h).
⏱️ That’s nearly 2x more frequent!
🔍 There’s no official update from Microsoft documentation yet

#Intune #MicrosoftIntune #DeviceManagement #Powershell

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🚨 BIG NEWS ALERT! 🚨

We are thrilled (and doing a happy robot dance) to welcome the one and only Harjit Dhaliwal to the Robopack team (and SoftwareCentral) as our new Director of Community & Events! 🎉🤖
@harjit.bsky.social #robopack #ITpro

Release Release v0.92 · microsoft/PowerToys In the v0.92 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, optimization improvements, and automation. Installer Hashes Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSe...

PowerToys v0.92 is here with looooots of fixes and improvements! Go check it out! 🚀
github.com/microsoft/Po...

Move PS content out of OneDrive by jshigetomi · Pull Request #388 · PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC This pull request proposes a new RFC (RFC0066) to change the default location of PowerShell user content on Windows machines from OneDrive to the AppData directory. The goal is to align PowerShell ...

Last chance to review and add your feedback on RFC to propose how to move PS content out of MyDocuments (aka OneDrive): github.com/PowerShell/P...

We requested that recently as well. Our Zscaler team should have us setup later this year. Excited to see what improvements it brings!

Yes! Disconnected about 10 times today. No alerts in monitoring though.

🎉 Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!

Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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Hooray! Quantum computing back in the news, and it's one of those things whose implications can be large, but is regularly misunderstood, so why not, a little thread on why it matters in cryptography, but also why it perhaps doesn't matter as much as you think too 🧵

🚀 Microsoft Edge v137 is here — and the new Edge policies are available immediately in the Intune Settings Catalog at release!
No delays. No waiting. Just streamlined management from day one.
#MSIntune #Edge #EndpointManagement #ITAdmin