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Configure Windows 365 context-based redirections

Peter Klapwijk — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:49:34 +0000

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of context-based redirections for Windows 365 Cloud PCs and AVD. This new feature is a welcome addition to how we control redirections of things like clipboard copy/ paste from the local device to the Cloud PC. Until now redirections were configured as blocked or allowed. It was just black [...]

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Why ‘Never persistent’ isn’t really never persistent: understanding browser sessions in Microsoft 365 Web Apps

Peter Klapwijk — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:52:00 +0000

Do you know how persistent your browser session is when a Conditional Access policy is active, in which the setting Persistent browser session is set to Never persistent? I assumed that the browser session would never be persistent, like the setting says. Maybe I just thought to simple, as I’m not an authentication expert, but the answer seems to be; it depends. It depends on the authentication architecture of the web application, and on a setting in the browser. [...]

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Change a Microsoft 365 Apps installation from 32-bit to 64-bit

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:13:31 +0000

Today, we’re going to have a look at an approach in converting Microsoft 365 Apps (at most people still know as the Office 365 suite) from 32-bit to 64-bit with Microsoft Intune. As an admin we can streamline the migration from the M365 Apps x32 installation to x64 using the Office Deployment Toolkit as described [...]

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Intune PowerShell script installer feature

Peter Klapwijk — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:20:24 +0000

Today we are going to have a look at the new PowerShell script installer feature that is available since January 2026 in Microsoft Intune. It’s now possible to upload a PowerShell script as the installer instead of specifying a command line when adding a Win32 app package. A lot of applications can be installed using [...]

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Configuring the time zone with Intune, what are our options?

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:39:54 +0000

I wrote two blog posts in the past about configuring the time zone on Windows devices with Microsoft Intune. I wrote a long time ago how to use a custom configuration policy to configure a time zone. And I also wrote a PowerShell script that configures the time zone automatically. But we also have a [...]

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Configure Azure file shares for Entra joined Windows devices and cloud identities

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:16:52 +0000

Today, I share a blog post on how we can enable Kerberos authentication for cloud-only identities on Azure file shares. Azure file shares can come handy when a file share is needed from every location and working with a cloud managed device, but till a short while back we could only enable Kerberos authentication for [...]

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Hard drive and partitions are not shown while installing Windows

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:10:28 +0000

Today, I share a short post about an issue I recently faced when a customer wanted to perform a clean Windows 11 install on some HP ProBooks of different generations. The laptops where still running Windows 10 but they had a reason to perform a clean install using an image on USB. But while they [...]

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Intune connector for Active Directory configuration error

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:57:59 +0000

Today, as short post about an error I faced when I needed to configure the Intune connector for Active Directory to set up Windows Autopilot Entra hybrid join. The installation of the Intune connecter went without any issues. And the requirement for Edge WebView Runtime was also met. But when the configuration wizard started and [...]

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Deploy Microsoft Defender updates in deployment rings

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:44:44 +0000

Last week I shared in a blog post how we can easily create ring deployment groups in Entra ID. Today’s blog post describes how we can create different update policies to deploy updates for Microsoft Defender in a managed way. Keeping Microsoft Defender up to date is critical to keep our devices secure, but as [...]

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Create deployment ring groups for Microsoft Intune

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:21:49 +0000

If you’re working with Microsoft Intune, I assume you deploy new updates, configurations or applications gradually, with different ring groups to gradually roll these out and avoid an outage because of a change.Today, I share an approach in creating device ring groups for your ring deployments. Let’s say we want to gradually roll out Windows [...]

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