:::success Save yourself the headache - use the Microsoft Store on Windows 11

If you're using or managing this for Windows 11 you can now deploy Adobe Acrobat Reader DC using the Microsoft Store. This is preferable for many reasons mostly because this way of doing it with IntuneWin files is a complete pain in the ass.

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About this script​

If you're not familiar with the IntuneWin format and what it's used for/when it's used there's some good background reading from Microsoft here: Prepare a Win32 app to be uploaded to Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Docs.

In short, it's a format designed to package Windows application installers for deployment with Intune.

This post contains a script which downloads the latest version of the Adobe Reader DC installer and turns it into an IntuneWin package for Intune deployment.

Kelvin has published a module that automates publishing RMM installers to Intune across all your customer tenants - you can read about it here: Automating with PowerShell: uploading your RMM application to all Intune tenants - CyberDrain.

title: Handling Base64 encoded strings with PowerShell authors: mikey tags: [PowerShell]​

I don't handle Base64 strings very often - when I do I find myself searching for instructions every time. So I finally decided to add two small helper functions to my PowerShell profile.

function ConvertFrom-Base64String ([String]$InputString, [System.Text.Encoding]$Encoding) {
    $DecodedString = $Encoding.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($InputString))
    $DecodedString
}

function ConvertTo-Base64String ([String]$InputString, [System.Text.Encoding]$Encoding) {
    $StringBytes = $Encoding.GetBytes($InputString)
    $EncodedString = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($StringBytes)
    $EncodedString
}

About this script​

So firstly, if you haven't already, hit the giant orange button above to read the original blog post on CyberDrain.com to understand what this script is doing!