One of the biggest challenges that we run into with customers who want to adopt Windows Autopilot for deploying new devices is the variety of network setups. This can be broken down […]
Have you implemented “hybrid”?
I’ve had lots of conversations with customers about Hybrid Azure AD Join, as it’s used as part of a key Windows Autopilot scenario. But it seems this leads to a bunch of […]
Inside Windows Autopilot user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join
I already talked about user-driven mode with Azure AD Join – that’s the easiest scenario. Now let’s talk about user-driven mode with Hybrid Azure AD Join. For those who have no idea […]
Using MFA with Azure AD Join
Here’s an easy one to try. In Azure AD, you can enable an option to require MFA before a user can join a device to Azure AD: When not using ADFS or […]
Options for Terms of Use
Some organizations want to display a “terms of use” page to users when the join or enroll in the organization. (Personally, I think this is a bit silly, but if it makes […]
CSP partners: Add devices to Windows Autopilot using Partner Center and PowerShell
I’ve given presentations at a variety of events that included this slide, talking about the different mechanisms that are available for registering devices with Windows Autopilot: For customers, you can register devices […]
Automatically setting up OneDrive for Business via Intune
The OneDrive for Business team has made a number of changes to support automatic configuration of OneDrive, including support for automatically signing in, configuring known folder migration, enabling offline files, and more. […]
Inside Windows Autopilot user-driven mode with Azure AD join
We’ve already talked about device registration and the initial Windows Autopilot profile download. That’s all prep work for the “real” provisioning process performed by Windows Autopilot. Now let’s look at the provisioning […]
TPM Attestation: What can possibly go wrong?
First off, it would be good to touch on what TPM attestation is, and then talk about why you care. From some older Windows Server documentation, here’s a decent overview: With TPM […]
What happens when a Windows Autopilot-registered device starts up?
The last time, I talked about the device registration process – preparing for deploying a device using Windows Autopilot. This time, I want to switch to the device itself and explore what […]
