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 […]
A milestone: One million downloads
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 […]
The most useful PowerShell cmdlet I didn’t know existed
Sometimes I should probably pay more attention. I use PowerShell a lot. I use Windows 10 a lot. But I still missed this one: Some highlights: Want to know if the device […]
Fun with Azure: Creating an Azure function
Sometimes you need to run some code – somewhere. You don’t care where. But clients need to be able to get to it. You don’t want servers, VMs, or web apps, just […]
You can use Intune to create a local admin account, but that doesn’t mean its a good idea
There are a variety of blog posts that talk about creating a local account on a device, to be used as a “break glass” account in case anything ever happens where the […]
More help with Windows Autopilot diagnostics
I’ve talked about the Get-AutopilotESPStatus.ps1 script a few times in previous blogs (like this one). Well, here’s another one. First, I added some additional diagnostics information at the top of the output: […]
Windows enrollment restrictions
It seems some days become worthy of a blog post, if only due to the coincidental collision of research and customer questions. Today is one of those days. I started off the […]
Podcast episode #2: Group tags
I did my first podcast episode back in March. Because I didn’t know any better, it was posted at a higher bitrate than necessary, so it used up a significant amount of […]
VLSC is getting monthly updates for Windows 10 media!
If you routinely sign into the VLSC portal at https://www.microsoft.com/vlsc to download Windows 10 media you may have noticed something interesting recently. Here’s a snapshot of Windows 10 1909 from mid-March: And […]
My guide to setting up Windows Server 2019 for VPN (with no guarantees that it will work)
Sadly, I can remember setting up my first Remote Access Service (RAS) on Windows NT Server 4.0. It was a very simple process: First you added the Remote Access Service in network […]
