For a long time, adding a modern design theme to your WPF project typically meant adding a 3rd party library to provide the styling, such as MahApps Metro, or WPF UI. With the release of .Net 9, a Fluent theme is finally coming to WPF! There are still areas where 3rd party libraries will be … Continue reading Using the Fluent Theme in WPF with PowerShell and .Net 9
Category: Applications
Display a User Notification in an Intune Win32 Application
I recently had the joy of migrating an Adobe application from ConfigMgr to Intune, and one of the requirements we needed to add was a user notification that prompted the user to close any M365 apps if they were running as they've been known to cause the installation to fail. Since this is not a … Continue reading Display a User Notification in an Intune Win32 Application
New App: Microsoft Entra Group Bulk Import
Change Log DateVersionComments2024-03-051.0.3> Added the "Allow duplicates" toggle. If enabled, all resources with the same name will be imported. If disabled, no resource with duplicate names will be imported.2024-01-081.0.2> Changed name from Azure AD Group Bulk Import to Microsoft Entra Group Bulk Import> Fixed issue with the Segoe UI font after font name change> Fixed … Continue reading New App: Microsoft Entra Group Bulk Import
Software Center Retirement Website
I just published a simple public website that anyone can use to redirect your users from the Software Center to the Company Portal. Here's how it looks in the Software Center: It contains simple instructions for opening the Company Portal and a button that will open the portal directly from that page. To add the … Continue reading Software Center Retirement Website
New tool – Base64 Converter
I found myself doing a number of Base64 conversions recently - I usually use PowerShell for this, but I decided it would be handy to have a tool to do it, so I created one! Not something that hasn't been done before or can't easily be done online, but it's always nice to create your … Continue reading New tool – Base64 Converter
Script Viewer for Microsoft Intune
It's been a while since a published a community UI tool - I used to have fun doing that back when I had time...😆 This one is something I created a while ago actually but as I needed to use it a few times I decided to finish it off and publish it. It's a … Continue reading Script Viewer for Microsoft Intune
User-Context Detection Rules for Intune Win32 Apps
Today I had to create a Win32 app in Intune that sets a registry key in the current user context to toggle a setting in the OS. Somehow I thought I'd have it done in a jiffy, but I stumbled on a couple of unexpected issues along the way.... First, as the app simply runs … Continue reading User-Context Detection Rules for Intune Win32 Apps
Deploying HP BIOS Updates – a real world example
Not so long ago HP published a customer advisory listing a number of their models that need to be on the latest BIOS release to be upgraded to Windows 10 2004. Since we were getting ready to rollout 20H2 we encountered some affected models in piloting, which prompted me to find that advisory and then … Continue reading Deploying HP BIOS Updates – a real world example
Get Program Execution History from a ConfigMgr Client with PowerShell
Have you ever been in the situation where something unexpected happens on a users computer and people start pointing their fingers at the ConfigMgr admin and asking "has anyone deployed something with SCCM?" Well, I decided to write a PowerShell script to retrieve the execution history for ConfigMgr programs on a local or remote client. … Continue reading Get Program Execution History from a ConfigMgr Client with PowerShell
Using Windows 10 Toast Notifications with ConfigMgr Application Deployments
When deploying software with ConfigMgr, the ConfigMgr client can create a simple "New software is available" notification to inform the user that something new is available to install from the Software Center. But this notification is not overly descriptive. You might wish to provide a more detailed notification with a description of the software, why … Continue reading Using Windows 10 Toast Notifications with ConfigMgr Application Deployments