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Creating Win32App for PowerShell script installation with Intune – Part 1 (Intro) – Using Intune and PowerShell to dynamically create Teams per user based firewall rules

The problem Recently we needed to deploy a firewall solution to deal with the change to MS Teams moving from a system wide installation to a per user based installation. Long story short, this causes issues with the firewall permissions Read more…

By RandoMan, 2 yearsDecember 19, 2022 ago
Intune

Creating Win32App for PowerShell script installation with Intune – Part 4 (Intune setup)

Background In the previous parts we saw how to do the PowerShell piece, building the needed scripts to manage the Teams user based firewall rules as well as the setup and uninstall scripts. This next part will show how to Read more…

By RandoMan, 2 yearsDecember 19, 2022 ago
Intune

Creating Win32App for PowerShell script installation with Intune – Part 3 (Setup and Uninstall scripts)

Background This is part 3 of the dealing with the Teams Firewall rules for non admin users. In the first two parts we introduced the issue and also the core script that would do the work. In this part I Read more…

By RandoMan, 2 yearsDecember 19, 2022 ago
Intune

Creating Win32App for PowerShell script installation with Intune – Part 2 (Firewall script)

Background As mentioned in Part 1 – We are going to be setting up a script to create firewall rules for Teams per user instance installations on machines. We will be using the Microsoft recommended script as our baseline but Read more…

By RandoMan, 2 yearsDecember 19, 2022 ago
DevOps

Windows Admin Center – updating SSL certificate via PowerShell

Recently we ran into an issue with our production deployment of Windows Admin Center. When attempting to update our custom certificate for the service, we were unable to do so. Using MS recommended method of updating the certificate (namely run Read more…

By RandoMan, 3 yearsAugust 18, 2022 ago
DevOps

Powershell function to store and retrieve encrypted credentials in a file

What are we doing here?? The purpose of this post is to demonstrate how you can write a function to both store credentials (passwords) to a disk using Encryption and then load them up as a secure credential object. Often Read more…

By RandoMan, 3 yearsJune 17, 2022 ago
Graph API

PowerShell function to poll Teams users status via Graph api

The intent of this post is to show how PowerShell (and the Powershell Graph cmdlets) can be leveraged to poll a user (or group of users) current status in Teams. Assumptions: You have installed the Microsoft Graph Powershell module You Read more…

By RandoMan, 3 yearsApril 19, 2022 ago
IoT

Using PowerShell to trigger a Wemo smart plug

The intent of this post is to show how PowerShell can be leveraged to turn on/off a wemo smart plug via IFTTT webhook integrations. Assumptions: You already have an existing Wemo device and account that is working properly You already Read more…

By RandoMan, 3 yearsMarch 29, 2022 ago
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