It might seem like a very long time ago, but at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, there was a theater session presented: THR4002: Solving Windows 10 feature updates in a […]
New in Windows 10 2004: Better Language Handling
Michael Niehaus
Ensuring you can capture a screenshot from a remote Hyper-V VM
This should be a trivial exercise. I should be able to connect to a remote Hyper-V server using Hyper-V Manager, connect to a specific VM, and interact with it as if I […]
Windows 10 Enterprise 2004 is available
You probably saw the announcements: How to get the Windows 10 May 2020 Update What’s new for IT pros in Windows 10, version 2004 And yes, it’s available on VLSC as well, […]
Deploying Edge without a desktop shortcut, the easiest way
First, I described a messy way to get rid of the Edge (the Chromium-based one) desktop shortcut. That led to some Twitter discussions with the Edge team, resulting in a new MSI […]
Digging into Hybrid Azure AD Join
I’m sure most of you are aware that Windows Autopilot supports a user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join scenario. That’s not what I’m talking about here. I want to talk about Hybrid Azure […]
Try out the new Windows Package Manager
My initial response when reading through the Windows Package Manager Preview announcement from the Build event was “ugh, another package manager” (on top of OneGet, NuGet, Chocolately, etc.). But it is immediately […]
Renaming Autopilot-deployed Hybrid Azure AD Join devices
As some of you have noticed, the naming convention allowed for Windows Autopilot Hybrid Azure AD joined devices isn’t particularly flexible: You can specify a prefix (e.g. “AD-“) and the rest of […]
Two for one: Updated Autopilot Branding and Update OS scripts
A few days ago, I started working on a new script. This blog is not about that script, but rather the unrelated issues I encountered while working on that script. Let’s start […]
A milestone: One million downloads
Back when I was still in Windows product management/marketing, around the time when Windows Autopilot was first announced in June 2017, I was working with the team to try it out. “All […]
Updated troubleshooting script posted
After a productive Friday night/Saturday morning, I’ve made a number of script updates. Let’s start off with the most interesting of them. The Get-AutopilotESPStatus script has been updated to version 3.6 to […]
