I’ve published a bunch of sample Win32 apps for Intune and Autopilot, most of which are just PowerShell scripts bundled into an .intunewin file. For the first few, I posted the step-by-step […]
Sample app secret decoder ring
Updating in-box apps with PowerShell
It’s always the simple things that turn out to be more complicated than expected. I was deploying new machines with Windows 11 and needed to automate the process of adding PowerShell 7.4 […]
Move to Windows 11 or write a big check
There are lots of IT admins with lots of different reasons why they don’t like or don’t want to move to Windows 11. But we’re at the point where none of that […]
Entertaining bug of the day: Autopilot + Task Sequence
If you are doing user-driven Windows Autopilot provisioning in combination with a ConfigMgr task sequence initiated via “Co-management settings” in Intune, you know that the task sequence is tracked as an application […]
Using a well-known Intune app ID for access to Graph? Not for much longer.
I noticed a section on the Features in development page that talks about a change coming on April 1st, which is not very far away (and an interesting place to put “we’re […]
Autopilot topics of the week
It’s been a week of randomness, but at least some of that randomness is interesting. Let’s look at a few goings-on in the world of Windows Autopilot. Yes, you can generate hashes […]
WindowsApps folder getting out of hand?
The whole Windows app (UWP) model is weird: apps are installed per user, but the files for those apps are shared between users. That leads to situations where there are several different versions […]
Autopilot branding app improvements
Since I had been testing out the UpdateOS script to see how it performed based on the number of CPU cores, I figured I should try the same thing with the Autopilot […]
Installing updates during Autopilot: Windows 11 edition, revisited again
This seems to be a frequent blog topic, with posts going back to 2019: So why bring this up yet again? I blame Gary Block, whose comment on Twitter said that he sees […]
Use the new community modules for Autopilot
As I mentioned in my previous post, there is a new community version of the WindowsAutopilotIntune PowerShell module that I created a few years ago (needed because the “official” Intune modules don’t […]
Get Autopilot for Existing Devices to skip the region page
In an Autopilot user-driven AAD join deployment profile, you can configure it to specify the “Language (Region)” and as long as there is network connectivity (e.g. a wired device), that will work […]
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