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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
I posted a blog a back in March that talked about a new “-online” option that I added to the Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo script which will grab the hardware hash from a device and […]
I’ve posted quite a few blogs talking about troubleshooting Windows Autopilot (such as this one), with some additional posts (three separate ones here, here, and here) talking about a script named Get-AutopilotESPStatus […]
The first post on the new https://oofhours.com website was exactly one year ago today. Since then, I’ve done 125 posts amounting to a total of 82,000 words, with 600,000 views in total. […]
There have been some reports from people who are creating their Windows 10 2004 image using MDT and running into an interesting issue: The MDT ZTIWindowsUpdate.wsf script ends up skipping all the […]
While the Hybrid Azure AD Join over VPN process probably gets people more excited, another change went live in Intune at the same time: The ability to target enrollment status page (ESP) […]
In my previous post, I talked about the new VPN support for user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join. I described the key VPN requirements: The VPN connection either needs to be automatically established […]
It has taken a long time, and there have been plenty of bumps along the way, but it’s finally available in public preview: You can perform a user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join […]
In my job I tend to do a reasonable amount of research. (And by research, I don’t mean searching for a term in your favorite search engine and clicking on the first […]
Leave it to Microsoft to turn everything into an acronym. So let me start with definitions: ESP = Enrollment Status Page. This shows the progress of the Windows Autopilot device provisioning process, […]
The Windows guidance goes back many years: Before you can duplicate or clone a Windows installation (whether physically duplicating the disk drive or using some sort of VM-based snapshot or differencing disk […]
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