Initially, I started listening to podcasts for a way to relax during the daily commute. Then that daily commute disappeared (permanently for me, but I suspect many others will eventually return to […]
Tech-related podcasts to follow
Windows 10 and a PC’s real-time clock
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
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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 […]
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 […]
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