First off, it would be good to touch on what TPM attestation is, and then talk about why you care. From some older Windows Server documentation, here’s a decent overview: With TPM […]
TPM Attestation: What can possibly go wrong?
Michael Niehaus
What happens when a Windows Autopilot-registered device starts up?
The last time, I talked about the device registration process – preparing for deploying a device using Windows Autopilot. This time, I want to switch to the device itself and explore what […]
Self-serving post: Follow my blog from Outlook
If you are like me, you live and breathe through Outlook – it’s the center of my work world, enabling me to rapidly sift through obscene amounts of e-mail effectively. (You might […]
Which Intune portal do you use?
Update 2020/07/08: The https://devicemanagement.microsoft.com portal should now be accessed via https://endpoint.microsoft.com. This site is identical to the previous one, just with a new URL. That might seem like an odd question, but […]
What happens when you register a device with Windows Autopilot?
Let’s assume that you are registering a new VM, or some existing device that you want to use for validating Windows Autopilot. (New devices should be registered by the OEM, distributor, or […]
Disk Deduplication: A great feature for lab environments
I have a reasonably powerful workstation that I’ve been using for testing and validation for many years, an HP z800 Workstation with 8 CPU cores, 96GB of RAM, and 4TB of disk […]
Configuring company branding in Azure AD
As you may know, Windows Autopilot leverages Azure AD company branding to show custom logos and text during the Azure AD authentication/join process. I described how this company branding information was used […]
Using UE-V with Windows Autopilot
When we talk about what it takes to get a device ready for productive use, we generally include OneDrive for Business for ensuring that files and folders are automatically synced to the […]
More on Windows Autopilot for existing devices
With any luck, you saw this morning’s blog post talking about Windows Autopilot for existing devices. In that blog, I talked about how this didn’t require any client-side changes to support joining […]
Starting again…
I’ve been blogging since 2006 on my original Microsoft blog. But you might have noticed an exodus from that blog site, with a move to the Tech Community site or one of […]
Out of Office Hours 