Author Archives: ncbrady

Windows 365 and the External Identity preview – using a guest account to access Cloud PCs

Posted on October 6, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction Ever wished you could spin up a Cloud PC not just for your employees, but for contractors, partners, or even external collaborators? Good news—External Identity (preview) support in Entra ID now makes that possible. You can invite external users … Continue reading →

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Using remediation scripts in Intune to grab Windows 365 health check logs

Posted on October 4, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction In a previous post we took a look at how you can determine the health of the Windows app and you can read about that here. Please read it to understand the new feature and why this blog post … Continue reading →

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How healthy are your Windows 365 or Azure Virtual Desktop PC’s ?

Posted on September 24, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft has just pushed out yet another new feature for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop environments which is called health checks. Myself and my good friend Paul Winstanley took a look at the new feature and wanted to … Continue reading →

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Cloudy With a Chance of Apps

Posted on September 19, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction A new feature for Windows 365, and now in preview, is Windows 365 Cloud Apps. Instead of giving users a full remote desktop session, Windows 365 Cloud Apps are published as individual applications that run on a Cloud PC … Continue reading →

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Expediting updates using Windows Autopatch

Posted on September 1, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction In the previous post I showed you what happens when a user or admin reset’s Windows after the August 2025 cumulative update (KB5063875) , basically the reset fails (rolls back). That problem can be fixed by applying an out … Continue reading →

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August Cumulative update causing Windows reset problems

Posted on August 30, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction If you use Windows reset via a Self-Service Windows Reset app or built in Windows functionality, or via an action in Microsoft Intune, you or your users may be in for a surprise this month. After attempting a reset, … Continue reading →

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Recovering a Windows 365 Cloud PC that was de-provisioned due to license expiration

Posted on August 17, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft pushed out some new updates for Windows 365 Cloud PC’s recently and one that we thought was interesting was this one, the ability to recover a Cloud PC that was de-provisioned due to license expiration. The de-provisioning of … Continue reading →

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Dipping your toes into Azure Virtual Desktop

Posted on August 12, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction Look out for a new series of blogs from myself and my MVP buddy, Paul Winstanley as we explore the world of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). In the meantime, we have collaborated on a kick the tyres exercise to experience … Continue reading →

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Why you should be using Patch My PC’s free home updater

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction If you work with computers like I do, then the Patch My PC name should be very familiar to you. They’ve been at the forefront of Patching Windows computers in enterprises for years now and are well known, trusted, … Continue reading →

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Moving one or more Windows 365 Cloud PCs to another location

Posted on May 8, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft recently released a new feature for Windows 365 Cloud PC’s namely the ability to move one or more Cloud PCs to another region. This involves editing a previously created provisioning policy and then deciding whether you want to … Continue reading →

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Want to learn everything about managing devices in Intune? then THIS book is for you

Posted on April 12, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction It’s not every day that you get asked to technically review a book about Microsoft Intune, but when you do and when you are asked by none other than Paul Winstanley  who is my good buddy and fellow MVP, … Continue reading →

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Configuration Manager 2503 is out, 350 bugs fixed

Posted on April 4, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction I noticed the following on Twitter announcing yet another release of ConfigMgr, this time version 2503, with hundreds of amazing new features, oh wait, no that was bugfixes. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/configmgr/core/plan-design/changes/whats-new-in-version-2503 The 350 bugs identified and fixed bit is explained in … Continue reading →

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Windows app is blank, how to troubleshoot ? part 2

Posted on March 28, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction In a previous blog post I started troubleshooting why my Windows app showed a blank white screen instead of the usual User Interface. I did a bunch of troubleshooting but it didn’t lead anywhere or so I thought. No … Continue reading →

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Windows app is blank, how to troubleshoot ? part 1

Posted on March 21, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction I use my Windows app daily from a variety of devices to access my Cloud PC’s. Today like any day I clicked the Windows app icon but this time, nothing happened, the familiar Windows app did not appear. So … Continue reading →

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Hotfix rollup KB30385346 released for CM2409 – fixes CMG issues amongst others…

Posted on March 13, 2025 by ncbrady

Introduction Last month I posted about my CMG (Cloud Management Gateway) going AWOL (absent without leave) and staying broken, this was in response to a tweet from Panu, and I documented the sorry story here. I tried many things including … Continue reading →

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