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Speeding up Windows Autopilot for existing devices

By Michael Niehaus on September 8, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on September 5, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

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?

By Michael Niehaus on August 13, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

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)

By Michael Niehaus on August 11, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on August 11, 2020 • ( 7 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on August 6, 2020

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

By Michael Niehaus on August 6, 2020

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)

By Michael Niehaus on August 6, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

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)

By Michael Niehaus on August 6, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on August 4, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

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

By Michael Niehaus on July 30, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on July 26, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on July 20, 2020

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

By Michael Niehaus on July 19, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on July 14, 2020 • ( 14 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on July 13, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on July 12, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on July 1, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

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?

By Michael Niehaus on June 25, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

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

By Michael Niehaus on June 23, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

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) […]

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