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 […]
Intune makes it easy to deploy an Always On VPN device tunnel profile
A new feature was announced today for Intune: You can create an Always On VPN device tunnel profile directly in Intune, without any of the gymnastics that were previously required. All you […]
Troubleshooting Windows Autopilot Hybrid Azure AD Join
It feels like I’ve written this blog before – many times actually. But given the amount of interest recently, it’s time to cover the topic again: How to troubleshoot Windows Autopilot Hybrid […]
More improvements to the Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo script
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, […]
Automating the Windows Autopilot device hash import and profile assignment process
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 […]
Windows Autopilot diagnostics: Digging deeper
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 https://OofHours.com one-year anniversary
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. […]
Using Windows 10 2004 with MDT and installing updates during a task sequence?
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 […]
You can now target ESP profiles to devices
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) […]
Windows Autopilot user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join: Which VPN clients work?
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 […]
Windows Autopilot user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join over the internet using a VPN
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 […]
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