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Windows 10 and a PC’s real-time clock

By Michael Niehaus on October 7, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

I’ve written enough about the challenges of Windows devices and the real-time clock that you’ve probably heard this one before:  Windows stores the time in the real-time clock in the local time […]

So long, and thanks for the Coke Zero

By Michael Niehaus on October 5, 2020 • ( 17 Comments )

It might be a corny take on the Douglas Adams book title and quote, but there is a point to it.  Friday was my last day working for Microsoft.  In these odd […]

30 years in the industry, many more to go…

By Michael Niehaus on October 5, 2020 • ( 11 Comments )

It occurred to me over the summer that I missed a significant milestone:  As of May 2020, I had been working in IT and technology for 30 years.  That started with my […]

Persistently disabling Shift-F10 in OOBE

By Michael Niehaus on October 2, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

A couple of months ago I did a blog post that talked about how to disable Shift-F10 during OOBE by creating a DisableCmdRequest.tag file in the right location.  I mentioned at the […]

Export all your hardware hashes from ConfigMgr

By Michael Niehaus on September 28, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

Quite some time ago, ConfigMgr added an inventory class that gathers the hardware hashes needed to register devices with Windows Autopilot from every Windows 10 device that it is managing.  Those are […]

Coming soon: Improvements to app installation error handling in ESP

By Michael Niehaus on September 27, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

For those of you who have been deploying apps (of any type, Win32, LOB/MSI, UWP, etc.) during a Windows Autopilot provisioning process with ESP enabled, you may have noticed that an installation […]

Improving the ESP duration

By Michael Niehaus on September 26, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

I talked about the behavior of the Windows MDM stack in a blog post about a year ago.  The quick recap:  When a device first enrolls in Intune, it will initiate an […]

Speeding up Windows Autopilot for existing devices

By Michael Niehaus on September 8, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

2020-09-08 quick note:  This blog post was resurrected from an original post on http://blogs.technet.microsoft.com (RIP) from October 25, 2018, posted here with minimal edits. At Ignite 2018, we announced Windows Autopilot for […]

Using Microsoft Graph from Python

By Michael Niehaus on September 5, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

I’ve spent a lot of time using the Microsoft Graph for interacting with Azure Active Directory, Intune, and Windows Autopilot.  Most of this has been done using PowerShell (scripting) or C# (programming).  […]

Command line apps from the store: How does that work?

By Michael Niehaus on August 13, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

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 […]

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