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 wrap our scripts in a Win32App .intune wrapper and then Read more…
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 will show how to write a Setup script that can Read more…
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 modifying it to include some more functionality. The Microsoft Code: Read more…
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 in a restricted access environment where users are not allowed Read more…
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 the installer and then perform a “Change” installation) we received Read more…
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 when creating scripts that must log in to other services Read more…
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 have consented to the proper Graph API permissions when running Read more…
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 have an existing IFTTT account that is working properly You Read more…