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Build your own user onboarding automation: Send a notification when Windows 365 provisioning is finished

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:51:26 +0000

Today, I’m sharing another blog post that’s somewhat related to user onboarding automation. This time I’m sharing how we can automatically build an automation flow to inform our users when their Windows 365 cloud PC finished provisioning and is ready for sign-in. This prevents the user from manually checking if the cloud PC is ready, [...]

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Automatically configure the time zone (during Autopilot enrollment)

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:00 +0000

New Windows devices usually come out of the box with the time zone configured to Pacific Time. Great for people who live in that time zone, but I assume most of the people live in another time zone, like me and all the users of my employer. Thus, when we started our investigation into moving [...]

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Build your own user onboarding automation – Day 1: enable the account and create a Temporary Access Pass

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:25:53 +0000

Recently I shared this blog post about creating a low-code automation solution to easily create users in Entra ID. This is the follow-up blog post in the user onboarding automation series. This second automation flow enables the user account of users that have a hire date of today. Besides that a Temporary Access Pass is created [...]

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Build your own user onboarding automation – Entra ID user account creation

Peter Klapwijk — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:18:31 +0000

In one of the latest blog posts, I shared how we can create a red button automation solution to take action when a user account is compromised. Today we’re going to build our own user onboarding automation with the low-code solution Azure Logic Apps. This is the first part of a user onboarding automation series [...]

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Revoke user access in case of an emergency with a single click – on-premises AD integration

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Today I will show you how to revoke user access for an Active Directory user account in an automated way. This is a follow-up post to the initial blog post in which I described how to build automation to revoke user access in a single click. For example in case of employee termination or when [...]

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Revoke user access in case of an emergency with a single click

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:25:00 +0000

I’ve seen several online discussions about the steps which need to be taken in case of a ‘red button’ action, for example when a user account is compromised or employee termination. Of course, it differs depending on the environment which actions need to be taken to block access to corporate data as soon as possible [...]

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Azure Logic Apps error; the template language expression is not valid

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:49:23 +0000

I was recently building a nice flow in Azure Logic Apps (which I will share soon ;)) when I faced a strange issue while trying to save the flow. I got two errors that didn’t immediately ring a bell to me: Workflow validation failed for the workflow ”. {“error”:{“code”:”InvalidTemplate”,”message”:”The template validation failed: ‘The template action [...]

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Logic Apps; Replace deprecated When a file is created in a folder trigger

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:13:00 +0000

A few years ago I wrote the blog post Import Windows Autopilot devices with Logic Apps. The Logic Apps flow that I described imports a csv file containing the Windows Autopilot information including the hardware hash. I noticed recently the SharePoint trigger When a file is created in a folder that I use in this [...]

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Intune Driver update for Windows – Get applicable devices

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:45:00 +0000

A few weeks ago Microsoft finally made the Manage Windows driver and firmware updates with Microsoft Intune feature General Available. This means we finally have more control over the drivers and firmware we deploy with Intune to our Windows devices. With the current implementation in the Intune portal, we can see the number of devices [...]

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Get notified on expiring Intune LOB apps

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:02:00 +0000

It’s been a while since the last post in the MEM Monitoring series, but today we have a new blog post. This time I describe how we can set up a Logic Apps flow to get notified when an iOS LOB app is about to expire. An expired iOS LOB app can’t be deployed to [...]

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