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 […]
Improving the ESP duration
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 […]
