You’re probably used to looking at Windows Autopilot profiles in Intune. But most of the time, I’m looking at one from the CAB file that is created by the MDMDiagnosticsTool. As I […]
Interpreting the Windows Autopilot profile
Troubleshooting Windows Autopilot, a reference
I’ve done a variety of blogs on troubleshooting Windows Autopilot, which you can read up on for historical reference: Troubleshooting Windows AutoPilot (level 100/200) Troubleshooting Windows AutoPilot (level 300/400) Troubleshooting Improvements in […]
Working with UEFI variables from PowerShell
In my past post about the inner workings of UEFI, I talked about using a UEFI shell to poke around, looking at all the UEFI variables that are defined on a typical […]
Password-less Azure AD Join can be done
As I was trying out FIDO2 support in Windows 10 (see my blog here), I was disappointed that the one thing that I couldn’t do with the FIDO2 key was to join […]
Inside Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode
In past blog posts, I walked through the user-driven scenarios – both user-driven Azure AD Join and user-driven Hybrid Azure AD Join. Now on to scenario #3, self-deploying mode. In many ways, […]
Forcing an MDM sync from a Windows 10 client
I was reading a blog recently that made me think “there’s got to be a better way” to force an MDM sync from the actual Windows 10 client – the example used […]
Now choose from more language/locale choices for Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode
Several people pointed out in the past when setting up Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode profiles (used for kiosks, digital signs, and shared PCs) in Intune that the list of language and locale […]
Time for another Q&A session
Back in August, I hosted an “OOF Hour” Q&A session and said I would try to schedule one each month. September is rapidly disappearing, so it’s time to get something on the […]
Windows 10 on ARM64
I admit it, I still have flashbacks about Windows RT, the previous version of Windows that ran on ARM processors. (Don’t remember that? Read up on it here.) That was a 32-bit […]
A challenge with Windows Autopilot for existing devices and Windows 10 1903
We implemented the Windows Autopilot for existing devices scenario with Windows 10 1809 to enable an interesting scenario: Using ConfigMgr (or other deployment tools, e.g. MDT) to take an existing Windows 7 […]
