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Intune & Endpoint
Intunewin file packaging: the errors and what causes them
The Content Prep Tool validates almost nothing. The errors it emits, what causes them, and the regression that reports success and produces no file.
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Microsoft MVP / Microsoft 365
Everything I work out about Microsoft 365, written down.
Software developer and M365 specialist. Notes on .NET, Azure, Intune and Copilot rollouts that survive contact with real tenants, plus reviews of the hardware and software I actually run.
Microsoft MVP.NET / AzureIntune / Exchange Online
a tenant, end to end
tracing
- 01 Identity and devices Entra ID / Intune / 1,842 devices compliant
- 02 Data and labels Purview / SharePoint / Exchange 4 tiers
- 03 Services I build .NET 10 / Graph / Azure traced
- 04 Copilot on top Grounding scoped to labelled content ring 2
- Writing on
- .NET, AI, M365
- Reviews
- Hardware + software
- Lab
- 4U / 48 cores / 10GbE
- Based in
- United Kingdom
- Microsoft MVP / Microsoft 365 Apps and Services
- 4 devices and services tested
- lab-01 / 48 cores / 256 GB / 10GbE
- Book: 4 of 14 chapters drafted
- Writing from United Kingdom
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What is on fire today?
Latest writing
Notes from real tenants
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130
Intune OMA-URI: why it fails, and why it will not revert
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129
Intune Graph API: Which Calls Are Safe in Production
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128
Microsoft Copilot licensing: what qualifies, and what bills separately
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127
Attack surface reduction rules not applying: what to check
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126
Entra Connect Health not working: the agent, not the sync
Hardware and software
Tested, then written up
8/10
Mudita Harmony 2 E Ink alarm clock
The best executed bedside clock you can buy, and the only one whose design actually assumes the phone has left the room. The constraint is not the hardware, it is that a gradual alarm on an invisible display asks more of you than a supermarket LED does, and at 143 dollars it only pays for itself if the phone genuinely goes.
- Display
- 2.84 inch E Ink, 600 x 480, 270 DPI, 16 levels of grey
- Front light
- 2700 K, multiple brightness levels
- Processor
- Arm Cortex-M7 600 MHz, 4 GB storage
- Battery
- 2600 mAh Li-ion, up to 45 days claimed
8/10
UPERFECT GR16HQ 16 inch 3K OLED portable monitor
A superb OLED panel wrapped in a sloppy EDID. The hardware is wide-gamut, 10-bit, HDR10 and FreeSync capable, but a false sRGB flag, a fake 27 inch size and 120 Hz modes hidden in the DisplayID block mean it needs two minutes of Windows settings and a capable GPU to show what it can do.
- Display
- 16 inch OLED, 2880 x 1800, 16:10, 212 PPI, 10 bit per colour (EDID)
- Advertised modes
- 3K at 60, 100, 120 Hz; 2560 x 1600 at 60, 100, 120 Hz; 1920 x 1200 at 60, 100, 120 Hz
- Pixel clock, 3K 120 Hz
- 671.23 MHz, 16.11 Gbps at 8 bit, 20.14 Gbps at 10 bit
- Variable refresh
- AMD FreeSync block, 48 to 120 Hz
The lab
Where the numbers come from
Three compute nodes, one storage node and a switch that has never needed a reboot. Hardware runs the same workload set for at least ninety days, power logged at the wall. Software gets tested in a tenant with real users in it, not a demo tenant.
- 6
- Devices and services tested
- 90d
- Minimum soak before a score
- 48
- Cores in the rack
- 131
- Notes published
Books
What I am writing, and how much of it you can read
Two titles in progress. How much of each one you can read before it ships depends on who is publishing it, and each book says so on its own page.
Writing now
Apress
Sample chapter
Enterprise Copilot Architecture with .NET
7 of 10 chapters drafted
70%
Chapter 4 is readable here. The rest ships with the book.
Next up
- 08 Extending Copilot with .NET
- 09 Grounding, retrieval and the data boundary
- 10 Identity, consent and least privilege
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