Unless you’re living under a rock (in which case, you wouldn’t be reading this either), I’m sure you’ve seen that there was a leaked build of Windows 11 last week. But you […]
Windows Autopilot + Windows 11
Persistently disabling Shift-F10 in OOBE
A couple of months ago I did a blog post that talked about how to disable Shift-F10 during OOBE by creating a DisableCmdRequest.tag file in the right location. I mentioned at the […]
Export all your hardware hashes from ConfigMgr
Quite some time ago, ConfigMgr added an inventory class that gathers the hardware hashes needed to register devices with Windows Autopilot from every Windows 10 device that it is managing. Those are […]
Coming soon: Improvements to app installation error handling in ESP
For those of you who have been deploying apps (of any type, Win32, LOB/MSI, UWP, etc.) during a Windows Autopilot provisioning process with ESP enabled, you may have noticed that an installation […]
Improving the ESP duration
I talked about the behavior of the Windows MDM stack in a blog post about a year ago. The quick recap: When a device first enrolls in Intune, it will initiate an […]
Speeding up Windows Autopilot for existing devices
2020-09-08 quick note: This blog post was resurrected from an original post on http://blogs.technet.microsoft.com (RIP) from October 25, 2018, posted here with minimal edits. At Ignite 2018, we announced Windows Autopilot for […]
Time, time, time (and location services)
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about time, time zones, with multiple blogs (part 1 and part 2) talking about available options. One of the options that I mentioned in the […]
Windows 10 2004 + every local experience pack = A planet-wide OS image
I talked about the improvements that Windows 10 version 2004 introduced with local experience packs in a previous blog. In the context of Windows Autopilot and OOBE, you can add one or […]
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 […]
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, […]
Automating the Windows Autopilot device hash import and profile assignment process
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 […]
Windows Autopilot diagnostics: Digging deeper
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 […]
You can now target ESP profiles to devices
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) […]
Windows Autopilot user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join: Which VPN clients work?
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 […]
Windows Autopilot user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join over the internet using a VPN
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 […]
Hacking or useful IT tool? You decide.
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 […]
Make ESP look better by disabling FSIA
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, […]
Creating a kiosk or digital sign using Windows Autopilot, Intune, and Edge (Chromium)
Way back when (two years ago to the day actually), I posted a blog that described how to use Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode to create a kiosk that displayed a web page […]
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