As you kick the tires on Windows Autopilot scenarios (whether new scenarios like white glove or existing ones), make sure you’ve installed a recent cumulative update and aren’t using just the original […]
Want to watch the MDM client activity in real time?
In the past, you could use the Microsoft Network Monitor to capture network traces, showing the gory details of all the network traffic to and from the machine. That utility morphed into […]
Windows Autopilot and the joy of networking
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 […]
