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

Intune configure lid close action

When using your notebooks and portable devices together with a docking station your users might like to close the lid. The Windows 10 1903 release introduces additional power CSP settings. One of them allows you to configure the lid close action while on ac power - so the device doesn’t switch to hibernate mode as by default. Policy CSP configuration To configure this policy with Microsoft Intune use the following OMA-URI configuration within a new custom device configuration:...

May 19, 2019 · 1 min · 189 words · Nicola Suter

Introducing the OneDrive AutoMountTeamSites setting

Reviewing the latest OneDrive features I wanted to try the new AutoMountTeamSites setting which lets you preconfigure SharePoint online sites to sync automatically for defined users and devices. Updated on 12.07.2019: Included the Intune administrative template configuration The setting is officially described as follow: This setting lets you specify SharePoint team site libraries to sync automatically the next time users sign in to the OneDrive sync client. (Microsoft) If you enable this setting, the OneDrive sync client will automatically download the contents of the libraries you specified as online-only files the next time the user signs in....

March 17, 2019 · 3 min · 622 words · Nicola Suter

Intune map network drives and execute PowerShell script on each user logon

Recently a customer needed a drive mapping solution to access his on premise file shares during his transition phase to a cloud-only workplace. I wanted to share the solution with you because it’s a frequently asked question around a modern workplace migration. The following solution can also be extended or modified for a printer mapping or other PowerShell scripts which need to run on each user logon. Updated 04.08.2019: I’ve developed an automated solution to generate network drive mapping configurations with an online tool which also migrates group policy network drive mappings....

January 11, 2019 · 3 min · 601 words · Nicola Suter

Deploy OneDrive KFM with Microsoft Intune OMA-URI

OneDrive KFM (Known Folder Move) allows you to redirect common Windows folders (Desktop, Documents and Pictures) to the users personal OneDrive. OneDrive Known Folder Move is the modern replacement for the well known folder redirection group policy. The deployment with Microsoft Intune allows you to trigger or automate the OneDrive KFM configuration for your end users. Updated on 04.08.2019: Added administrative template configuration This post is based on a great article from Oliver Kieselbach about Deep dive ADMX ingestion to configure SilentAccountConfig with OneDrive....

September 6, 2018 · 4 min · 736 words · Nicola Suter

Windows 10 1709 Cannot Access SMB2 Share Guest Access

After Upgrading to Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update) I couldn’t access my Synology NAS anymore. Therefore I started troubleshooting the Windows 10 1709 Cannot Access SMB2 Share Guest Access error: An error occurred while reconnecting X: to \\nas\data Microsoft Windows Network: You can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies block unauthenticated guest access. These policies help protect your PC from unsafe or malicious devices on the network....

October 19, 2017 · 2 min · 263 words · Nicola Suter