As I discussed in a previous blog, CSP partners (who could be distributors, resellers, or service providers) are able to register devices for Windows Autopilot on behalf of customers using Partner Center, […]
The first day in the life of a Hybrid Azure AD Joined device

That’s the short title. The long title should really be something like this: The first day in the life of a Hybrid Azure AD Joined device has lasting implications on the rest […]
What’s all this stuff in Microsoft 365?

If you read my last post about Microsoft 365 certifications, you probably noticed that it talks about lots of different products and services – it’s a pretty big suite. If you’re like […]
Getting certified for Microsoft 365

With the shifts that are occurring with how Windows (and non-Windows) devices are provisioned, managed, and secured, there seems to be a resurgence of interest in certifications and training that show that […]
Year in review: Random blog statistics

With my blog hosted through WordPress.com, there are all sorts of analytics available to tell me the blogs I’ve posted and the people that are reading them. Here are some interesting tidbits […]
Year in review: Samples, scripts, tools
Some of the blogs that I’ve posted are tied to scripts posted to the PowerShell Gallery or tools published to GitHub (or sometimes a combination of the two). In the case of […]
Year in review: Blog posts
It’s been a fairly busy year for blogging, crossing three different blog platforms. First there was https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus, with two posts in January 2019: USB media and Windows Information Protection. If you’ve implemented […]
Configuring time zones, part 2

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

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

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 […]