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Intune + certificates: something everyone should set up

By Michael Niehaus on April 5, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

If you are using Intune and haven’t yet set up a mechanism to deliver certificates to your MDM-managed devices, you should probably do so – at some point you’ll need to, and […]

Group tags with spaces? Fun with Azure AD dynamic groups

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

Many of you using Windows Autopilot have used Azure AD dynamic groups for various purposes, leveraging the Group Tag value that has been assigned to a device.  Somewhere along the line, people […]

Include Microsoft Edge in your ESP blocking app list

By Michael Niehaus on March 26, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

A quick note:  A few people noticed that you couldn’t select the new Microsoft Edge app types when selecting the list of blocking apps in an enrollment status page profile.  That’s been […]

An experimental script to check out your Windows Autopilot devices

By Michael Niehaus on March 26, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

I published a new script on the PowerShell Gallery called AutopilotDeviceSync.  This grabs a list of all your Windows Autopilot devices, Azure AD devices (including Hybrid Azure AD Join devices synced from […]

Importing a device hash directly into Intune

By Michael Niehaus on March 25, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

I resisted the urge to add a switch to the Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo script to add the device to Windows Autopilot using the Intune Graph API.  But since people were doing it anyway in […]

Podcast episode #1: Windows Autopilot Hybrid Azure AD Join

By Michael Niehaus on March 18, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

I admit it, I’ve been procrastinating. I’ve been carrying around podcasting equipment for months, intending to use it from hotel rooms around the world to create podcasts for those that prefer audio […]

More Autopilot ESP information

By Michael Niehaus on February 24, 2020

I published a script last week that I talked about in a previous blog which would dump out information from the registry to tell you what happened during a Windows Autopilot deployment, […]

p.s. A PowerShell conundrum

By Michael Niehaus on February 19, 2020

In my previous post, I mentioned changing some PowerShell cmdlets.  Here’s the definition for the cmdlet used to create a new item: It’s simple enough:  You specify the required mode and display […]

Updated WindowsAutopilotIntune module posted

By Michael Niehaus on February 19, 2020

As I have been working my way through an e-mail backlog, I have been making adjustments to the WindowsAutopilotIntune module to address feedback and requests from those that contacted me.  The first […]

What happened during Windows Autopilot ESP? Decode it.

By Michael Niehaus on February 17, 2020 • ( 5 Comments )

One of the challenges with Windows Autopilot that I’ve talked about at various events is troubleshooting – if everything goes well, you’re happy, but if something goes wrong, figuring out what that […]

Deploying the new Microsoft Edge without a desktop shortcut

By Michael Niehaus on February 10, 2020 • ( 22 Comments )

UPDATE 2020/04/16: See my updated post for an easier way. Or more accurately, “a crash course into the inner workings of modern browser installers (which really aren’t that modern).”  I really don’t […]

PowerShell on Windows 10 ARM64

By Michael Niehaus on February 4, 2020

I wrote a blog post back in September that talked about Windows 10 running on ARM64.  In that, I talked a little about WOW64 on ARM64, which enables an ARM64 device to […]

Configure language settings for any scenario

By Michael Niehaus on February 3, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

You might have noticed that there are new properties available in Windows Autopilot user-driven scenarios, both for Azure AD Join: And for Hybrid Azure AD Join: But if you try it, you’ll […]

Windows Autopilot device registration options for partners: Using the tuple

By Michael Niehaus on January 29, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

As I discussed in a previous blog, CSP partners (who could be distributors, resellers, or service providers) are able to register devices for Windows Autopilot on behalf of customers using Partner Center, […]

The first day in the life of a Hybrid Azure AD Joined device

By Michael Niehaus on January 20, 2020 • ( 31 Comments )

That’s the short title.  The long title should really be something like this: The first day in the life of a Hybrid Azure AD Joined device has lasting implications on the rest […]

What’s all this stuff in Microsoft 365?

By Michael Niehaus on January 14, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

If you read my last post about Microsoft 365 certifications, you probably noticed that it talks about lots of different products and services – it’s a pretty big suite.  If you’re like […]

Getting certified for Microsoft 365

By Michael Niehaus on January 7, 2020

With the shifts that are occurring with how Windows (and non-Windows) devices are provisioned, managed, and secured, there seems to be a resurgence of interest in certifications and training that show that […]

Year in review: Random blog statistics

By Michael Niehaus on December 23, 2019

With my blog hosted through WordPress.com, there are all sorts of analytics available to tell me the blogs I’ve posted and the people that are reading them.  Here are some interesting tidbits […]

Year in review: Samples, scripts, tools

By Michael Niehaus on December 23, 2019

Some of the blogs that I’ve posted are tied to scripts posted to the PowerShell Gallery or tools published to GitHub (or sometimes a combination of the two).  In the case of […]

Year in review: Blog posts

By Michael Niehaus on December 23, 2019

It’s been a fairly busy year for blogging, crossing three different blog platforms.  First there was https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus, with two posts in January 2019: USB media and Windows Information Protection.  If you’ve implemented […]

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