Clicking on any website links in Outlook 2010 in Windows 10/2016 would cause this prompt to appear:
Ticking Always use this app doesn’t help as clicking on the link again causes the prompt to re-appear. After doing some digging, I initially thought it was due to this documented issue with Citrix and Microsoft Server 2016 – https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228597
However after spending more time than I care to admit looking at the above, the fix was something completely unrelated to the above article. Implementing a few simple missing registry keys outlined in this article resolves the problem: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3094186
TLDR the below keys are missing from Windows 10 which are present in earlier versions of Windows, which is what causes this prompt to constantly re-appear. To address it, create the below two registry keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\command
Modify the value of the (Default) registry setting:
Change value of (Default) to rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler %1 to open links in a new tab
Change value of (Default) to “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE” %1 to open links in a new window
For a new deployment we needed for Outlook to show the Task’s ToDo List on the Outlook Home Screen
I couldn’t find this documented anywhere so I have to monitor the Outlook.exe during the change to find out what Registry Key it changed
Location
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Preferences
Item : PinMail
Type : Dword
Value : 4
These are the steps that definitely fixed the issue for me:
Delete the computer from the WSUS console
On the affected client, stop the Windows Update service
On the affected client, rename the folder C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution
Start the Windows Update service
Run the following command in and administrative prompt:
wuauclt /detectnow /reportnow /scannow /resetauthorization
After 15 minutes or so the client will reappear in the WSUS console and report correctly
I had a related issue with MDT deployed machines not detecting any updates.
I ran this script on the PC.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/24742-reset-windows-update-windows-10-a.html
Extract the ISO to a folder and run from the root folder
setup.exe /admin
to open this
Go through all the options especially above for the CD Key information and accepting License and Display Level None
Once this is done , Save this as an MSP file with any name in the UPDATES folder of the CD ( The installer runs all the MSP’s in here )
Next create a config.xml file in the same directory as setup.exe with the below config
Next use IntuneWinAppUtil.exe to package the App Up
c:\TempPath\Intune-Win32-App-Packaging-Tool-master>IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
Please specify the source folder: “F:\Project2010\”
Please specify the setup file: setup.exe
Please specify the output folder: C:\TempPath\Project2010
Intune Settings
Install Command : setup.exe /config config.xml
Unintall Command : Setup.exe /uninstall 90140000-00B4-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE
Detection Rule ( Check File ) : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINPROJ.EXE
Seems one of the only ways to copy files to PC’s in Intune seems to be to create an MSI file to deploy them. However this can also be done using Windows app (Win32)
Copy.bat File
del.bat file
Next run the IntuneWinAppUtil.exe File
c:\TempPath\Intune-Win32-App-Packaging-Tool-master>IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
Please specify the source folder: F:\Config Files
Please specify the setup file: copy.bat
Please specify the output folder: C:\TempPath\BuildsoftAppps
Create a new Windows app (Win32) App in Intune , upload the copy.intunewin and use the commands below
Detection Rules
Following on from this great article
The Powershell Script History and logs are stored in the following registry location
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IntuneManagementExtension\Policies
You will need to navigate to a subtree in their GUID
How do I get the GUID for my Intune Script?
Diagnosing Failures
A result was coming Failed with the below
��$ : The term '��$' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Intune Management
Extension\Policies\Scripts\ee7f18e5-b666-4c11-be72-9d5490a49e23_a39275a0-659c-45a9-9f1a-d312ae484eda.ps1:1 char:1
+ ��$
On running the scripts get copied here briefly then run and deleted : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Intune Management Extension\Policies\Scripts
You have to be fast but you can copy the .ps1 file to e.g. C:\Temp and check what the machine was getting , to resolve this issue I had to recopy the file into Powershell ISE and resave and upload.
How to Run the Scripts Manually
Change DownloadCountand ErrorCode to 0 and set Result and ResultDetails to nothing (empty string). After this we just restart the Microsoft Intune Management Extension Service (IntuneManagementExtension) and the script will rerun again on this device
Log Directory
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\IntuneManagementExtension\Logs
Recently had a user who when outside the office could not connect to 365. Per below her Outlook would just sit on “Trying to Connect”
They used OAuth for Outlook and 2fa which means when outside of a “trusted IP” the box should come up asking for the 2fa code , however this prompt was not coming up ever after restart (usually fixes a stuck Oauth box ) .
Fix
Go into credential manager and delete all the ADAL for the user , then restart Outlook
