About my device: A systray tool that displays device information and run action like send logs or sync device

In this post, I will show you a quick systray tool allowing user to get some informations about the device and run some quick actions

Get the tool

You can find the tool by clicking on the below GitHub picture. Download all sources not only PS1.

Inspiration

If you know a bit Mac, yes this tool is inspired from the About my MAC tool.

See below an overview:

How to install it ?

1. Open powershell as admin

2. Run Create_AboutMyDevice_Service.ps1

3. A systray icon will be created, as below:

4. A windows service called, will be created

How to remove it ?

1. Open powershell as admin

2. Run Remove_AboutMyDevice_Service.ps1

What's next ?

I will add multilanguage to both systray tool and GUI.

Submit ideas

I plan to add many new things: new info, auto update, new actions...

Don't hesitate to create an issue on GitHub to submit ideas like new actions, info to display in the GUI.

You can't also send me your ideas by mail: damien.vanrobaeys@gmail.com

How works the systray tool ?

1. Do a right-click on the systray icon

2. This will open a context menu

3. A simple clic on the systray icon will open a WPF GUI

Systray menu actions

Display infos about my device

This will display a quick WPF GUI, as below:

See below some examples.

No reboot since 3 days

Multiple Graphic Cards

Device with MECM

Multiple monitors

Open Quick Assist

This will open the Windows Quick Assist tool

Open Company Portal

This will open the Intune Company Portal if installed, or Software Center.

Sync my device

This will run below actions:

- Sync intune

- Run MECM hardware history

- Run MECM software history

Send device logs to support team

This will create a ZIP file containing logs from your device and send it to a Sharepoint.

We will see it in detail later in the post.

Configure the systray tool

Display/hide menu

You can choose what to display in systray context menu.

By default everything is displayed, as below:

You can also hide menus, as below:

See below how to proceed:

1. Go to the file Config\Main_Config.xml

2. Set right-click part to True or False.

3. For instance, in the below example I configured all parts to False.

Run company portal or software center

By default in the right-click menu you can run quicly the Company Portal.

You can also change it, to display the Software Center.

For that, proceed as below

1. Go to the file Config\Main_Config.xml

2. Go to the node CompanyPortal_SoftwareCenter_Preference 

3. Choose SoftwareCenter or CompanyPortal

Configure the WPF GUI

Change GUI logo

You can change logo displayed in the Overview part from the Display informations GUI part.

See below how to proceed:

1. Go to the file Config\Main_Config.xml

2. Go to the node Overview_Logo 

3. Add logo name and extension 

Change GUI color

You can change logo displayed in the Overview part from the Display informations GUI part.

See below how to proceed:

1. Go to the file Config\Main_Config.xml

2. Go to the node Main_Color 

3. Choose a color, like red

Configure support information

The support tab allow you to display infos about your support:

- Phone number

- Mail

- Yammer link

- Chat link

To configure link, open the file Config\Support.xml

Add link of each part if you have.

You can let part Yammer and chat empty, and they won't be displayed, as below:

Set reboot delay

The WPF GUI allows you to display an alert if the device has not been rebooted since some days.

By default, it's configured to 3 days.

See below the warning:

You can configure change it as below:

1. Go to the file Config\Main_Config.xml

2. Go to the node Reboot_Days_Alert 

3. Choose a delay

4. In the below example I set it to 5 days

Send logs part

Configure what to collect

Open the file Config\Content_to_collect.xml

Type whatever you want to collect, files, folders, event logs, registry keys.

By default, this will collect below things:

Then, it will create a ZIP file.

Send by mail or on Sharepoint

1. Go to the file Config\Main_Config.xml

2. Go to the node Send_Logs_Method

3. Choose Mail or Sharepoint

4. If mail go to the node Support_Mail

5. Add support mail

6. If you choose sharepoint see below.

Create a Sharepoint application

See in this post, how to configure a Sharepoint application to upload files.

Upload to Sharepoint

1. Go to the file Config\Sharepoint.xml

2. Go to the node App_ID

3. Add the sharepoint app Client ID

4. Go to the node App_Secret

5. Add the sharepoint app secret

6. Go to the node Folder

7. Add the folder path where to upload logs

8. Go to the node Site_URL

9. Add your sharepoint URL

Send logs in action

Send by mail

Upload on Sharepoint

Deploy it through Intune

Create the folder content

1. Create a folder About_My_Device

2. Copy downloaded folder 

3. See below my About_My_Device folder

Create the package

1. Download my tool IntuneWin

2. Create the intunewin file

Create the Win32 app

We will now integrate the intunewin package into Intune.

1. Go to Intune

2. Go to Client apps

3. Go to Apps

4. Click on Add

5. Select Windows app (Win32) then Select

6. Click on Select app package file

7. Browse to About_My_Device.intunewin

8. Click on OK

9. Type a name and a publisher name and configure as you want

10. In Install command type the below one:

11. In Uninstall command type the below one:

12. Click on Next

13. Choose your requirements

14. Click on Next

15. In Detection rules, select Use a detection script

16. Browse the script Detection_scripts.ps1

17. Click on Add

18. Click on OK 

19. Click on Next

20. In the Dependencies part click on Next

21. In the Scope tags part click on Next

22. In Assignments, go to Required and click on Add group

23. Select the group contaning device from which you want to collect logs

24. The group will be added

25. Click on Next

26. Click on Create

27. Go to Device install status

You can of course deploy it through MECM or MDT.