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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sometimes I should probably pay more attention. I use PowerShell a lot. I use Windows 10 a lot. But I still missed this one: Some highlights: Want to know if the device […]
Sometimes you need to run some code – somewhere. You don’t care where. But clients need to be able to get to it. You don’t want servers, VMs, or web apps, just […]
There are a variety of blog posts that talk about creating a local account on a device, to be used as a “break glass” account in case anything ever happens where the […]
I’ve talked about the Get-AutopilotESPStatus.ps1 script a few times in previous blogs (like this one). Well, here’s another one. First, I added some additional diagnostics information at the top of the output: […]
It seems some days become worthy of a blog post, if only due to the coincidental collision of research and customer questions. Today is one of those days. I started off the […]
I did my first podcast episode back in March. Because I didn’t know any better, it was posted at a higher bitrate than necessary, so it used up a significant amount of […]
If you routinely sign into the VLSC portal at https://www.microsoft.com/vlsc to download Windows 10 media you may have noticed something interesting recently. Here’s a snapshot of Windows 10 1909 from mid-March: And […]
Sadly, I can remember setting up my first Remote Access Service (RAS) on Windows NT Server 4.0. It was a very simple process: First you added the Remote Access Service in network […]
I have set up a variety of test domains over the years, and inevitably I need to set up Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) on them because I need to issue certificates […]
In the category of “stuff probably not worth a separate blog” category, I’ll combine some notes together into a single post. Let’s go through those one at a time. New white glove […]
As Per Larsen blogged this week, the recent Edge stable release now has a new MSI parameter to skip the desktop shortcut. From the release notes: Added an MSI command line parameter […]
This one falls squarely in the “I can’t believe I’m doing another blob about group tags” category. Past examples: Group tags with spaces? Fun with Azure AD dynamic groups Now you can […]
Over time, I’ve created a whole bunch of VMs for testing Windows Autopilot. They are named so that I can keep track of the Windows 10 build, the environment they are tied […]
Building on top of the script that I blogged about just over a month ago (time flies), I’ve now posted a new version. A few changes this time around: Apparently the MSI […]
In an average day, I provision a bunch of Windows 10 devices using Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot, including Office 365 ProPlus. But somehow I never actually launched Outlook (or if I […]
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