Check if a Microsoft Form comes from a trusted source

When you open a Microsoft Form asking you for some sensitive data, do you know where will your data land? Could it be phishing? Read on to find out... Recently, I have received an email at work asking me to fill out a form with some of sensitive personal details (voluntary disclosure).  I don't mind...

Enhancing Windows Update Catalog metadata Accessibility

Microsoft has recently released a major update to the Windows Update catalog back-end, adding crucial information such as CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) addressed by the update and the CVE Score directly info API. This information is essential for Threat and Vulnerability Management decisions as well as Patch management and many organizations pay $$ for...

Building a custom Windows Update Report p1: Parsing HTML via PowerShell on modern systems (no IE)

Wow, it's been a while! A customer of mine recently wanted a detailed report that should include info such as how many weeks is the Windows on the machine behind the latest available Security Update. We've found to a way to combine Intune Data Warehouse and PowerBI to pull data that allows to identify the...

A case of OneDrive Personal Vault not coming up (0x8031000a, MDM, GPO and BitLocker)

Today I wanted to enable the Personal Vault feature on my Home PC. While following the wizard I got an error 0x8031000a "Your organization requires your device to join the domain before you can use the Personal Vault". What does this have to do with MDM. GPO and BitLocker troubleshooting? Here's some quick Friday entertainment!...

Clean up references to your custom domain name from an Azure AD test tenant

Today I needed to move my custom domain name from an old (and messy) AAD test tenant to a (sparkling) new one. Problem is, you can't simply delete the old custom name, since your user's UPNs and Email addresses are using it (AAD actually presents a nice screen, showing all the dependencies, but I am...