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. […]
The https://OofHours.com one-year anniversary
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 […]
Hacking or useful IT tool? You decide.
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 […]
Make ESP look better by disabling FSIA
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, […]
Do not clone an Azure AD-joined or MDM-enrolled Windows 10 OS
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 […]
Creating a kiosk or digital sign using Windows Autopilot, Intune, and Edge (Chromium)
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 […]
MDT build 8456 needs an update for Windows 10 2004
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 […]
New in Windows 10 2004: Better Language Handling
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 […]
Ensuring you can capture a screenshot from a remote Hyper-V VM
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 […]
Windows 10 Enterprise 2004 is available
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, […]
Deploying Edge without a desktop shortcut, the easiest way
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 […]
Digging into Hybrid Azure AD Join
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 […]
Try out the new Windows Package Manager
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 […]
Renaming Autopilot-deployed Hybrid Azure AD Join devices
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 […]
Two for one: Updated Autopilot Branding and Update OS scripts
A few days ago, I started working on a new script. This blog is not about that script, but rather the unrelated issues I encountered while working on that script. Let’s start […]
A milestone: One million downloads
Back when I was still in Windows product management/marketing, around the time when Windows Autopilot was first announced in June 2017, I was working with the team to try it out. “All […]
Updated troubleshooting script posted
After a productive Friday night/Saturday morning, I’ve made a number of script updates. Let’s start off with the most interesting of them. The Get-AutopilotESPStatus script has been updated to version 3.6 to […]
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