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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 […]

Use Intune to enable Delivery Optimization for Office 365 installs

By Michael Niehaus on October 23, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

Just yesterday, I posted a blog about trying out Delivery Optimization for Office 365 ProPlus installs.  It was something I put together quickly, during a break while presenting at a SCUG Norway […]

Try out Delivery Optimization with Office 365 ProPlus installations

By Michael Niehaus on October 22, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

One of the challenges with cloud-based content delivery (e.g. Intune deploying apps, Windows Update delivering updates, Microsoft Store updating apps):  You really don’t want each client downloading the content from the cloud, […]

Interpreting the Windows Autopilot profile

By Michael Niehaus on October 13, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

You’re probably used to looking at Windows Autopilot profiles in Intune.  But most of the time, I’m looking at one from the CAB file that is created by the MDMDiagnosticsTool.  As I […]

Troubleshooting Windows Autopilot, a reference

By Michael Niehaus on October 8, 2019 • ( 8 Comments )

I’ve done a variety of blogs on troubleshooting Windows Autopilot, which you can read up on for historical reference: Troubleshooting Windows AutoPilot (level 100/200) Troubleshooting Windows AutoPilot (level 300/400) Troubleshooting Improvements in […]

Working with UEFI variables from PowerShell

By Michael Niehaus on October 5, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

In my past post about the inner workings of UEFI, I talked about using a UEFI shell to poke around, looking at all the UEFI variables that are defined on a typical […]

Password-less Azure AD Join can be done

By Michael Niehaus on October 3, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

As I was trying out FIDO2 support in Windows 10 (see my blog here), I was disappointed that the one thing that I couldn’t do with the FIDO2 key was to join […]

Inside Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode

By Michael Niehaus on October 1, 2019 • ( 9 Comments )

In past blog posts, I walked through the user-driven scenarios – both user-driven Azure AD Join and user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join.  Now on to scenario #3, self-deploying mode.  In many ways, […]

Forcing an MDM sync from a Windows 10 client

By Michael Niehaus on September 28, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

I was reading a blog recently that made me think “there’s got to be a better way” to force an MDM sync from the actual Windows 10 client – the example used […]

Now choose from more language/locale choices for Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode

By Michael Niehaus on September 26, 2019

Several people pointed out in the past when setting up Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode profiles (used for kiosks, digital signs, and shared PCs) in Intune that the list of language and locale […]

Time for another Q&A session

By Michael Niehaus on September 21, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Back in August, I hosted an “OOF Hour” Q&A session and said I would try to schedule one each month.  September is rapidly disappearing, so it’s time to get something on the […]

Windows 10 on ARM64

By Michael Niehaus on September 20, 2019

I admit it, I still have flashbacks about Windows RT, the previous version of Windows that ran on ARM processors.  (Don’t remember that?  Read up on it here.)  That was a 32-bit […]

A challenge with Windows Autopilot for existing devices and Windows 10 1903

By Michael Niehaus on September 19, 2019 • ( 8 Comments )

We implemented the Windows Autopilot for existing devices scenario with Windows 10 1809 to enable an interesting scenario:  Using ConfigMgr (or other deployment tools, e.g. MDT) to take an existing Windows 7 […]

Turn your laptop into a portable mainframe

By Michael Niehaus on September 17, 2019

Way before working with Windows, I started off in IT as a database administrator and systems programmer, working on IBM (and later Amdahl) mainframe systems running the MVS operating system, CICS transaction […]

Windows Autopilot known issues in Windows 10 1903

By Michael Niehaus on September 15, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

I listed a few issues in a previous blog, which are also reflected in the Autopilot documentation, but there are more issues addressed in later cumulative updates as well.  Here’s a full […]

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