2020-08-01 quick note: This blog post is resurrected from a December 2017 blog on the old blogs.technet.microsoft.com site (RIP), posted here with minimal edits. I’ve recorded a variety of videos (especially for […]
Michael Niehaus
USB media and Windows Information Protection
2020-08-01 quick note: This blog post is resurrected from a January 2018 blog on the old blogs.technet.microsoft.com site (RIP), posted here with minimal edits. If you do lots of Windows deployments, you […]
Afraid of Windows 10 with Azure AD join? Try it out (part 2)
2020-08-01 quick note: This blog post is resurrected from a January 2018 blog on the old blogs.technet.microsoft.com site (RIP), posted here with minimal edits. In the part 1 blog, I talked about […]
Afraid of Windows 10 with Azure AD join? Try it out (part 1)
2020-08-01 quick note: This blog post is resurrected from a January 2018 blog on the old blogs.technet.microsoft.com site (RIP), posted here with minimal edits. Some of the screen shots may have changed […]
Disable Shift-F10 in OOBE

The ability to press Shift-F10 to open a command prompt during the out-of-box experience (OOBE) in Windows has been around for many years. But if you want to turn that off, there […]
Azure AD won’t let you delete device objects associated with Windows Autopilot

When you register a device with Windows Autopilot, an Azure AD device object will be created corresponding to that Azure AD device. That device objects is important for Windows Autopilot and should […]
Supercharge the Hybrid Azure AD Join device registration process

I’ve written a few blogs about Hybrid Azure AD Join, and I’ve explained that there are two major pieces to this: What Windows Autopilot and Intune do to orchestrate the process of […]
Intune makes it easy to deploy an Always On VPN device tunnel profile

A new feature was announced today for Intune: You can create an Always On VPN device tunnel profile directly in Intune, without any of the gymnastics that were previously required. All you […]
Troubleshooting Windows Autopilot Hybrid Azure AD Join

It feels like I’ve written this blog before – many times actually. But given the amount of interest recently, it’s time to cover the topic again: How to troubleshoot Windows Autopilot Hybrid […]
More improvements to the Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo script

Yesterday’s changes (described in this blog) were probably bigger, but after a couple of suggestions in response to that update have caused me to publish another new version. For the first change, […]