In Part 1 of this series we looked at how we can report on missing driver updates for HP workstations using Intune Proactive remediations, Azure Log Analytics and Power BI. In Part 2 we'll look at how we can deploy driver updates to devices and use the information available in the Power BI report to … Continue reading Managing HP Driver Updates with Microsoft Intune, Azure Log Analytics and Power BI – Part 2
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Managing HP Driver Updates with Microsoft Intune, Azure Log Analytics and Power BI – Part 1
In this two-part series I will cover a solution I recently created to manage HP driver updates on Windows workstations. In part 1, I'll show you a reporting solution giving you visibility of available HP driver updates across your managed estate and in part 2, I'll show a flexible solution for deploying driver updates, whether … Continue reading Managing HP Driver Updates with Microsoft Intune, Azure Log Analytics and Power BI – Part 1
Consolidated Feature Update Reporting for Microsoft Intune
If you're deploying feature updates using feature update profiles in Intune you're probably familiar with the Windows Feature Update Report available in the endpoint manager portal: As is often the case with these canned reports though, I find myself wanting to report things differently - in this case I wanted to see a consolidated view … Continue reading Consolidated Feature Update Reporting for Microsoft Intune
DIY Windows Provisioning – a Solution Example
Some time ago I created a custom solution to provision Windows workstations and in this blog I wanted to share how that solution works. This is not a community solution but simply an example of what can be possible with a little creativity and technical know-how! I work for an American company with a global … Continue reading DIY Windows Provisioning – a Solution Example
Enhance Update Compliance Reporting with Azure Automation
In my last blog I provided an Intune Proactive remediations script that can be used to gather additional Windows Update information from your managed Windows devices and send the data to an Azure Log Analytics workspace to enhance your Windows Update reporting together with Microsoft's Update Compliance solution. In this blog, I will provide an … Continue reading Enhance Update Compliance Reporting with Azure Automation
Windows 11 Hardware Readiness Report for Power BI
So, Windows is 11 is out and Microsoft recently added Windows 11 hardware readiness insights to Endpoint Analytics in Microsoft Endpoint Manager allowing you to identify which devices in your Intune tenant are eligible for upgrade and which are not and why. Read the official announcement here. To supplement this report, I've created a Power … Continue reading Windows 11 Hardware Readiness Report for Power BI
MEMCM Client Content Downloads Report for Power BI
!Update 2022-03-08! Fixed an issue with the Power BI template where the following SQL error may be returned for large boundary group strings: STRING_AGG aggregation result exceeded the limit of 8000 bytes. Use LOB types to avoid result truncation. I was checking out some reports recently for client data sources (DP, BranchCache etc) for MEMCM … Continue reading MEMCM Client Content Downloads Report for Power BI
Create custom Intune reports with Microsoft Graph, Azure Automation and Power BI
Microsoft Endpoint Manager aka Intune has been around for a while now and has evolved quite significantly since its early days and the old Silverlight portal (remember that?). Historically Intune hasn't been particularly good with its reporting capability, but since end 2019 and the announcement of the new reporting framework, things are starting to improve … Continue reading Create custom Intune reports with Microsoft Graph, Azure Automation and Power BI
Getting Creative: a Bespoke Solution for Feature Update Deployments
This is the first blog post in what I hope will be a series of posts demonstrating several custom solutions I created for things such as feature update deployments, managing local admin password rotation, provisioning Windows 10 devices, managing drive mappings and more. My reasons for creating these solutions was to overcome some of the … Continue reading Getting Creative: a Bespoke Solution for Feature Update Deployments
Windows 10 Feature Update Readiness PowerBI Report (MEMCM version)
Following on from my previous post where I shared a PowerBI report that provides information on Windows 10 feature update blocks using Update Compliance and Desktop Analytics, in this post I will share another report that exposes similar data, but this time built from custom hardware inventory data in MEMCM. Outside of the Windows setup … Continue reading Windows 10 Feature Update Readiness PowerBI Report (MEMCM version)