There is a new update available for MDT to address an issue that arises from Windows 10 2004 and the corresponding ADK release: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4564442/windows-10-deployments-fail-with-microsoft-deployment-toolkit The issue would only be encountered if you […]
Michael Niehaus
New in Windows 10 2004: Better Language Handling
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 […]
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 […]
The most useful PowerShell cmdlet I didn’t know existed
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 […]
Fun with Azure: Creating an Azure function
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 […]
You can use Intune to create a local admin account, but that doesn’t mean its a good idea
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 […]
More help with Windows Autopilot diagnostics
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: […]
Windows enrollment restrictions
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 […]
Podcast episode #2: Group tags
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 […]
VLSC is getting monthly updates for Windows 10 media!
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 […]
My guide to setting up Windows Server 2019 for VPN (with no guarantees that it will work)
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 […]
Publish Certificate Services CRL and OCSP sites to the internet using Azure App Proxy
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 […]
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