Yesterday’s changes (described in this blog) were probably bigger, but after a couple of suggestions in response to that update have caused me to publish another new version. For the first change, […]
I posted a blog a back in March that talked about a new “-online” option that I added to the Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo script which will grab the hardware hash from a device and […]
I’ve posted quite a few blogs talking about troubleshooting Windows Autopilot (such as this one), with some additional posts (three separate ones here, here, and here) talking about a script named Get-AutopilotESPStatus […]
The first post on the new https://oofhours.com website was exactly one year ago today. Since then, I’ve done 125 posts amounting to a total of 82,000 words, with 600,000 views in total. […]
There have been some reports from people who are creating their Windows 10 2004 image using MDT and running into an interesting issue: The MDT ZTIWindowsUpdate.wsf script ends up skipping all the […]
While the Hybrid Azure AD Join over VPN process probably gets people more excited, another change went live in Intune at the same time: The ability to target enrollment status page (ESP) […]
In my previous post, I talked about the new VPN support for user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join. I described the key VPN requirements: The VPN connection either needs to be automatically established […]
It has taken a long time, and there have been plenty of bumps along the way, but it’s finally available in public preview: You can perform a user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join […]
In my job I tend to do a reasonable amount of research. (And by research, I don’t mean searching for a term in your favorite search engine and clicking on the first […]
Leave it to Microsoft to turn everything into an acronym. So let me start with definitions: ESP = Enrollment Status Page. This shows the progress of the Windows Autopilot device provisioning process, […]
The Windows guidance goes back many years: Before you can duplicate or clone a Windows installation (whether physically duplicating the disk drive or using some sort of VM-based snapshot or differencing disk […]
Way back when (two years ago to the day actually), I posted a blog that described how to use Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode to create a kiosk that displayed a web page […]
There is a new update available for MDT to address an issue that arises from Windows 10 2004 and the corresponding ADK release: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4564442/windows-10-deployments-fail-with-microsoft-deployment-toolkit The issue would only be encountered if you […]
It might seem like a very long time ago, but at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, there was a theater session presented: THR4002: Solving Windows 10 feature updates in a […]
This should be a trivial exercise. I should be able to connect to a remote Hyper-V server using Hyper-V Manager, connect to a specific VM, and interact with it as if I […]
You probably saw the announcements: How to get the Windows 10 May 2020 Update What’s new for IT pros in Windows 10, version 2004 And yes, it’s available on VLSC as well, […]
First, I described a messy way to get rid of the Edge (the Chromium-based one) desktop shortcut. That led to some Twitter discussions with the Edge team, resulting in a new MSI […]
I’m sure most of you are aware that Windows Autopilot supports a user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join scenario. That’s not what I’m talking about here. I want to talk about Hybrid Azure […]
My initial response when reading through the Windows Package Manager Preview announcement from the Build event was “ugh, another package manager” (on top of OneGet, NuGet, Chocolately, etc.). But it is immediately […]
As some of you have noticed, the naming convention allowed for Windows Autopilot Hybrid Azure AD joined devices isn’t particularly flexible: You can specify a prefix (e.g. “AD-“) and the rest of […]
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