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How To Find Out All Environment Variables on Windows

Environment Variables, according to a better definition on Wikipedia, are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. For example, a running process can query the value of the TEMP environment variable to discover a suitable place to store temporary files, or the AppData variable Read More

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How to Force Install Microsoft Teams With Intune Scripts

For some reason, Teams won’t install automatically with Office 365 deployment via Intune. I have created the below scripts and assigned them on Intune to force install Teams. Scripts: $registryPath = “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run” $Name = “TeamsMachineInstaller” $value = “C:\Program Files (x86)\Teams Installer\Teams.exe –checkInstall –source=default”      if (Get-ItemProperty -Path $registryPath -Name $name -ErrorAction Ignore) {   Read More

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How to Deploy Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)

Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is a new tool that gives the power to manage local Administrator accounts passwords (RID-500).The most important benefit of deploying LAPS is to mitigate Pass-the-Hash (PtH) credential attack. By configuring LAPS, Local Administrator on each machine will have its own (unique) complex password. This password changes randomly as per LAPS configuration Read More

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How to Manage Windows 10 Updates with Microsoft Intune

With Intune you can manage windows 10 updates using Windows update for Business. This is a free service that is available for Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise and Education editions (Enterprise LTSC is not supported). The service will deploy updates automatically without the need for approving individual updates. This will make it easy to manage Windows Read More

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How to Setup a Password Expiration Notification via Emails

Quick reference, Powershell script is available to download from here. You need to change its file type from .txt to .Ps1 Have you ever had a need to configure notifications for user’s password expirations but found that existing solutions didn’t quite fit the bill? We all know you can use built-in solutions with Windows and Read More