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More help with Windows Autopilot diagnostics

By Michael Niehaus on May 6, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on May 5, 2020 • ( 7 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on May 3, 2020 • ( 5 Comments )

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!

By Michael Niehaus on May 1, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

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)

By Michael Niehaus on April 27, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on April 25, 2020

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 […]

Random news of the week: New white glove fix, updated Intune module

By Michael Niehaus on April 20, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

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 […]

Deploying Edge without a desktop shortcut, the easier (but not easiest) way

By Michael Niehaus on April 16, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

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 […]

Fun with Windows Autopilot Group Tags

By Michael Niehaus on April 8, 2020 • ( 5 Comments )

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 […]

Correlating Hyper-V VMs that are registered with Windows Autopilot

By Michael Niehaus on April 8, 2020

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 […]

Another new Get-AutopilotESPStatus script posted

By Michael Niehaus on April 8, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

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 […]

Outlook and Azure AD Join: Automatically configuring the user’s mailbox

By Michael Niehaus on April 7, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

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 […]

Intune + certificates: something everyone should set up

By Michael Niehaus on April 5, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

If you are using Intune and haven’t yet set up a mechanism to deliver certificates to your MDM-managed devices, you should probably do so – at some point you’ll need to, and […]

Group tags with spaces? Fun with Azure AD dynamic groups

By Michael Niehaus on March 30, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Many of you using Windows Autopilot have used Azure AD dynamic groups for various purposes, leveraging the Group Tag value that has been assigned to a device.  Somewhere along the line, people […]

Include Microsoft Edge in your ESP blocking app list

By Michael Niehaus on March 26, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

A quick note:  A few people noticed that you couldn’t select the new Microsoft Edge app types when selecting the list of blocking apps in an enrollment status page profile.  That’s been […]

An experimental script to check out your Windows Autopilot devices

By Michael Niehaus on March 26, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

I published a new script on the PowerShell Gallery called AutopilotDeviceSync.  This grabs a list of all your Windows Autopilot devices, Azure AD devices (including Hybrid Azure AD Join devices synced from […]

Importing a device hash directly into Intune

By Michael Niehaus on March 25, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

I resisted the urge to add a switch to the Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo script to add the device to Windows Autopilot using the Intune Graph API.  But since people were doing it anyway in […]

Podcast episode #1: Windows Autopilot Hybrid Azure AD Join

By Michael Niehaus on March 18, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

I admit it, I’ve been procrastinating. I’ve been carrying around podcasting equipment for months, intending to use it from hotel rooms around the world to create podcasts for those that prefer audio […]

More Autopilot ESP information

By Michael Niehaus on February 24, 2020

I published a script last week that I talked about in a previous blog which would dump out information from the registry to tell you what happened during a Windows Autopilot deployment, […]

p.s. A PowerShell conundrum

By Michael Niehaus on February 19, 2020

In my previous post, I mentioned changing some PowerShell cmdlets.  Here’s the definition for the cmdlet used to create a new item: It’s simple enough:  You specify the required mode and display […]

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