Category: Windows

Intune – Remove Default Microsoft Store Apps

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One slight annoyance with IT Technicians would be preinstalled applications on new computers – we quite often have to remove ‘free’ subscriptions to an Anti-Virus that we don’t want or remove different cloud storage programs like Dropbox.

However, the preinstalled apps from the Microsoft Store is a different annoyance. Quite often you remove these manually or via a script for them to reappear on the next restart or by a feature update. In a business environment, we don’t want to have the Xbox App.

Through Microsoft Intune – we can now create a Configuration Profile to remove these preinstalled apps.

In this post I will show you to create this configuration profile.

Please note this only works for Windows 11 Enterprise and Education 25H2.

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How to activate a Windows Server.

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Activating a Windows Server, should be easier than it looks. I find that when something requires a command to be ran in Command Prompt or a PowerShell Script to be triggered, it can be quite daunting to technicians.

If you don’t fully understand that command – you could be worried about the damage you may inflict.

In this post, I will show you how to activate a Windows Server (2022).

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Uninstall Microsoft 365 (Office Applications) – Get Help

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When purchasing a new Windows computer from a manufacturer, mainly Dell – we have noticed that they like to install different language versions of Microsoft 365, and Microsoft OneNote.

The above can be totally fine, but as premade computers from a manufacturer – they are often packed with bloatware and unnecessary applications.

As I mainly deal with computers for businesses and clients who have their Microsoft 365 subscription, we much prefer to uninstall the above and install a fresh copy of Microsoft 365 (Office) directly from their account / subscription.

We can uninstall directly from Control Panel, but each one can take 2-3 minutes.

In this post, I will show you how I uninstall all the above with a few clicks.

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Driver Cannot Load – iqvw64e.sys

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With Windows 11 becoming more and more popular due to the deadline of Windows 10, we have seen a small increase in driver issue, more specifically, “A security setting is detecting this as a vulnerable driver and blocking it from loading. You’ll need to adjust your settings to load this driver.”

This prompt is due to a setting within Windows 11 Defender. Windows Security > Device Security > Core isolation details > Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist. More information here – Microsoft KB.

In this post, and this driver in question (iqvw64e.sys) – I’ll show you the steps on how I resolved it.

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