I had talked about the Windows Package Manager, WINGET.EXE, in a previous blog, but one thing always made me wonder: How do those actually work? I mean certainly the app packages contain […]
Command line apps from the store: How does that work?
Time, time, time (and location services)
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about time, time zones, with multiple blogs (part 1 and part 2) talking about available options. One of the options that I mentioned in the […]
Windows 10 2004 + every local experience pack = A planet-wide OS image
I talked about the improvements that Windows 10 version 2004 introduced with local experience packs in a previous blog. In the context of Windows Autopilot and OOBE, you can add one or […]
Changing the Hyper-V screen resolution during OOBE
2020-08-01 quick note: This blog post is resurrected from a December 2017 blog on the old blogs.technet.microsoft.com site (RIP), posted here with minimal edits. I’ve recorded a variety of videos (especially for […]
USB media and Windows Information Protection
2020-08-01 quick note: This blog post is resurrected from a January 2018 blog on the old blogs.technet.microsoft.com site (RIP), posted here with minimal edits. If you do lots of Windows deployments, you […]
Afraid of Windows 10 with Azure AD join? Try it out (part 2)
2020-08-01 quick note: This blog post is resurrected from a January 2018 blog on the old blogs.technet.microsoft.com site (RIP), posted here with minimal edits. In the part 1 blog, I talked about […]
Afraid of Windows 10 with Azure AD join? Try it out (part 1)
2020-08-01 quick note: This blog post is resurrected from a January 2018 blog on the old blogs.technet.microsoft.com site (RIP), posted here with minimal edits. Some of the screen shots may have changed […]
Disable Shift-F10 in OOBE
The ability to press Shift-F10 to open a command prompt during the out-of-box experience (OOBE) in Windows has been around for many years. But if you want to turn that off, there […]
Azure AD won’t let you delete device objects associated with Windows Autopilot
When you register a device with Windows Autopilot, an Azure AD device object will be created corresponding to that Azure AD device. That device objects is important for Windows Autopilot and should […]
Supercharge the Hybrid Azure AD Join device registration process
I’ve written a few blogs about Hybrid Azure AD Join, and I’ve explained that there are two major pieces to this: What Windows Autopilot and Intune do to orchestrate the process of […]
