Out of Office Hours

Michael Niehaus' technology ramblings

Sunday, July 3rd, 2022

Menu

  • Home
  • RSS

Configuring time zones, part 2

By Michael Niehaus on December 20, 2019

As I mentioned in the preview blog, RFC 4833 describes a mechanism that delivers time zone information via DHCP, but Windows 10 doesn’t include a mechanism for automatically consuming this information.  But […]

Configuring time zones, part 1

By Michael Niehaus on December 20, 2019

I always wondered why setting time zones was so hard.  Shouldn’t devices be able to figure this out themselves?  For devices like cell phones, this is pretty simple (now at least, since […]

Following the ConfigMgr task sequence bootstrap process

By Michael Niehaus on December 19, 2019

In my previous blog, I talked about how you could have Intune automatically run a ConfigMgr task sequence during a Windows Autopilot deployment.  For those of you who wanted more information on […]

Run a ConfigMgr task sequence via Windows Autopilot and Intune

By Michael Niehaus on December 17, 2019

I’ve mentioned in presentations over the past couple of years that the first thing I tried to do with Windows Autopilot was to run a task sequence, bridging the old and the […]

Updated WindowsAutopilotPartnerCenter module posted

By Michael Niehaus on December 4, 2019

If you are a CSP partner looking to add devices on behalf of your customers using the Partner Center APIs (you can read my original blog on the topic), you may have […]

App-based authentication with Intune

By Michael Niehaus on November 29, 2019 • ( 4 Comments )

A while back, support for app-based authentication was added for Intune, enabling an app to authenticate and use the Graph API.  That’s mentioned in the Intune documentation, along with the steps to […]

The importance of time

By Michael Niehaus on November 28, 2019 • ( 7 Comments )

Before you think I’m going off on a philosophical tangent, let me assure you that I have a point to make, and it is indeed about the importance of time.  More specifically, […]

Windows Autopilot Companion app updated to support editing the computer name and group tag

By Michael Niehaus on November 26, 2019 • ( 6 Comments )

If you missed yesterday’s announcement, we enabled editing the computer name and group tag associated with a Windows Autopilot device.  You can change those values through the Intune portal now, and you […]

Now you can edit group tags and computer names for Windows Autopilot devices

By Michael Niehaus on November 25, 2019 • ( 8 Comments )

It’s something that we’ve talked about for a while, and it’s now available.  If you navigate to an existing Windows Autopilot device in the Intune device management portal, you can edit the […]

It’s only a matter of time…

By Michael Niehaus on November 18, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Somewhere around 15 years ago, I can remember building out an Exchange 2003 infrastructure – unpacking boxes, setting up servers (I still have my trusty toolkit – can’t assemble servers without a […]

Using a wireless network connection with Windows Autopilot white glove

By Michael Niehaus on November 14, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

As part of our Windows Autopilot white glove documentation, we state that Ethernet connectivity is required “due to the requirement to choose a language, locale, and keyboard to make that Wi-fi connection; […]

Windows Autopilot health check: An experiment in Graph API scripting

By Michael Niehaus on November 12, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

We have talked to a number of customers over the past months who have run into challenges with Windows Autopilot – sometimes these were simple configuration issues, other times they were self-inflicted […]

Following up from Microsoft Ignite

By Michael Niehaus on November 11, 2019

I posted a blog with the Microsoft Ignite sessions that I thought would be interesting for anyone working with Windows Autopilot.  Now, those same session links point to the video recordings of […]

Multi-tenant Intune Graph API usage via PowerShell

By Michael Niehaus on November 8, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

I mentioned in my previous blog about the WindowsAutopilotIntune module that I had switched the module over to using the Microsoft.Graph.Intune module so that the same authentication logic could be used across […]

What’s new with the WindowsAutopilotIntune PowerShell module

By Michael Niehaus on November 2, 2019 • ( 7 Comments )

Some of you have noticed that the WindowsAutopilotIntune module is working differently than it did before, mainly due to the Connect-AutopilotIntune cmdlet disappearing from the module.  There’s a good reason for that:  […]

Windows Autopilot at Microsoft Ignite

By Michael Niehaus on October 31, 2019

Next week will be a busy week, with a significant portion of the Windows Autopilot program management team attending.  There are a few Windows Autopilot sessions planned.  First let me plug the […]

Deploy the new Microsoft Edge preview using Intune

By Michael Niehaus on October 31, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

There’s a new app type in Intune to make deploying the Microsoft Edge preview as easy as possible.  You can add a new app and choose the Microsoft Edge, version 77 and […]

Installing Windows updates during a Windows Autopilot deployment

By Michael Niehaus on October 29, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

It’s not uncommon to want a device to have the latest security updates installed before the device can be used.  One of these days we’ll add that capability to the Windows Autopilot […]

Windows Autopilot and ESP now work with Windows Hello for Business certs

By Michael Niehaus on October 29, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Some of you reported that you were trying to provision new devices using Windows Autopilot with ESP enabled, and were running into issues when trying to deploy Windows Hello for Business (useful […]

New Enrollment Status Page option available

By Michael Niehaus on October 24, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

The enrollment status page (ESP) is something I highly recommend you implement, to ensure each device is fully provisioned before the user can get to the desktop.  It makes sure the device […]

Posts navigation

‹ Newer 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Older ›
Advertisements

Follow Me

  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
Advertisements
  • Top categories: Windows Autopilot Windows 8.1
Blog at WordPress.com. |
  • Follow Following
    • Out of Office Hours
    • Join 382 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Out of Office Hours
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

You must be logged in to post a comment.