Often, blog titles are sensationalised and designed to draw the readers attention. In September 2023, we did actually observe the behavior described in the blog title. Windows Defender Exploit Guard, specifically Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules, were responsible...
Patch Tuesday
Blog
Libwebp Vulnerability and CVE-2023-4863 – What should you be worried about?
Threat actors are constantly lurking in the shadows, waiting to exploit vulnerabilities in our digital world and make our lives, as sys admins miserable. We thought it might be prudent to give our own spin on the Critical Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE) 0-day exploit...
Discovered Apps – The Intune Software Inventory
It’s no secret that Intune is dominating the market as the leading cloud solution for endpoint management. Even though its initial focus was mobile device management (MDM), its capabilities were quickly expanded to include...
Windows 11 Fails to Detect Updates After July’s Cumulative Update
Since the release of August's cumulative updates, I've heard from several Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) system administrators who report that many of their Windows 11 22H2 devices do not detect them as applicable. An even smaller group experienced the same issue...
Intune Scope Tags and Role-Based Access Control Explained
In today's interconnected era, it has become increasingly common for large organizations to have multiple IT departments and workers spread across the globe. Take myself as an example: I am based in Toronto, working for a company headquartered in Colorado. My...
Intune Discovered Apps – Missing Inventory Data
At the tail end of June 2023 and into the first week of July 2023, many admins started to report that application inventory data was missing in Intune for some managed devices with the release of Intune Management Extension 1.68.105.0. Upon further investigation we...
Intune Discovered Apps – Detecting your applications and gaining back control
Learn more about the power of Intune Discovered Apps for application inventory management. Detect and manage your software inventory efficiently.
Intune Microsoft Store Integration App Migration Failures (0x87D1041C)
In July 2021, Microsoft announced that both Microsoft Store for Business and Education would be deprecated on March 31, 2023. While Microsoft has pushed that date back indefinitely, the Intune integrations with both of those Stores started being removed on April 30,...
Automatic Deployment Rules (ADR) and ConfigMgr and why you should use them
What is an ADR Getting Started with ADR Creating and Defining an ADR What are Deployment Packages?In this blog we will review Automatic Deployment Rules (ADRs) and how they can be used to simplify and automate your patching processes in Microsoft Configuration...
How to use PowerShell to install Windows updates & ensure long-term compliance
In this post I will walk you through how to install Windows updates and report on patch compliance using Windows PowerShell. We will be using: kbupdate - a community Windows PowerShell module written by Chrissie LeMaire (SQL & PS MVP, GitHub Star, creator of...
