Deploy fonts to Intune managed Windows 10 devices

Recently a customer using Microsoft Intune requested to deploy a TrueType font required by one of their line of business apps. Because Intune does not offer a native solution to deploy fonts it was quite clear that a PowerShell script or Intune Win32 app should do the trick. Note that the mentioned PowerShell scripts can also be used for app deployments with Configuration Manager (MEMCM). How to install a font programmatically?...

January 19, 2020 · 2 min · 403 words · Nicola Suter

Automating network drive mapping configuration with Intune

I’m thrilled to introduce the intune-drive-mapping-generator which creates PowerShell scripts to map network drives with Intune. The tool is open source and built on ASP.NET Core MVC. The intune-drive-mapping-generator is your tool of choice to: Generate an Intune PowerShell script to map network drives on Azure AD joined devices Seamlessly migrate existing network drive mapping group policies Generate a network drive mapping configuration from scratch Use an existing Active Directory group as a filter to deploy all your drive mapping configurations within one script This all happens without scripting effort....

July 19, 2019 · 2 min · 385 words · Nicola Suter

Creating desktop shortcuts with Intune

Why want you to create desktop shortcuts with Intune? Business specific apps may require special shortcuts in order to launch the application with the right parameters. Or you need to create a shortcut for an application which is stored on your on premises fileserver. For this purpose I created a little solution which closes the gap between the modern cloud and on premises world. In comparison with other solutions this one works if you have redirected the users desktop with OneDrive Known Folder Move and automatically remediates missing shortcuts if they got deleted....

July 9, 2019 · 5 min · 960 words · Nicola Suter