Proactive Remediation script: notify users for low disk space and help them to see what takes up space

In this post, I will show you a quick Proactive Remediation script for Intune allowing you to display a toast notification warning to user if its device has less than 10% of disk space.

Get the script

Click on the below GitHub picture to get the Proactive Remediation script.

What it does ?

The Proactive Remediation script works as below:

- Check free disk space on device

- If there is less than 10%: display a warning to user

This toast notification warning looks like as below:

This toast allows you to display a warning to user but not only.

Indeed there are two buttons available allowing you to:

- Open a website, docx on sharepoint... with good pratices

- Open a report to show what takes up the most space on the user disk

The toast notification

Change text

You can easily customize text in the toast notification.

For that proceed as below:

Search fo the "Toast text part" line, see below:

You can customize there text as below:

Change toast picture

You can easily add your own picture in the toast.

There are two ways:

- By adding picture to Base64 format

- By uploading picture on web like blob storage and add path

Set the way to use using variable $Toast_Picture_Mode, as below:

Add the path like blob storage in variable $Toast_Logo_Path.

Add the Base64 picture in variable $Picture_Base64.

Change buttons

Hide good practices button

By default there are two buttons.

You can hide the "See good practices" button.

For that set variable $Use_Good_Pratices_Btn to $False.

See below the notification without this button:

Set good practices link

To set the link of the button, add it in variable $Good_Pratices_Link and of course be sure that variable $Use_Good_Pratices_Btn is setted to $True.

Change buttons text

To change text inside the button search variable $Toast_Button1_Text and $Toast_Button2_Text.

The user report

The user report available from by clicing on the second button looks like as below by default:

It will list below things:

- Disk space usage with free space percent

- OneDrive folders redirection status

- OneDrive usage with OneDrive size on disk percent

- 20 larger folders in C:\Users

- Larger folders on C:\

- Larger files on C:\

Choose what to display

You can easily change which part to display in the report by changing below variables to True or False:

In the below example I just want to display larger folders in C:\Users and larger files in C:

See below the result:

Add your logo

You can easily add your logo in the report.

There are two ways:

- By adding picture to Base64 format

- By uploading picture on web like blob storage and add path

Set the way to use u variable $Report_Logo_Mode, as below:

If you want to use the download way, add the path like blob storage in variable $Report_Logo_Path.

If you want to use the Base64 way, add the Base64 picture in variable $Report_Logo_Picture_Base64.

Deploy it with Proactive Remediation

1. Go to the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center

2. Go to Reports

3. Go to Endpoint Analytics

4. Go to Proactive Remediations

5. Click on Create script package

6. Type a name

7. Click on Next

8. Click on Detection script file

9. Browse the script Detection_script.ps1

10. Click on Next

11. Select the group 

12. In the Schedule part, choose when the package should be run.

13. Click on Apply

14. Click on Next

15. Click on Create

Notification in action

See below the toast notif in action: