I’m sure it would come as no surprise to anyone that the #1 troubleshooting step when you see an error message is to search for it via Google or whatever other search […]
“Something went wrong”: An Autopilot + AAD + Intune reliability retrospective
Prompt for time zone (and maybe other stuff) during Autopilot
In one of my sessions this week at the Workplace Ninja Summit, I included a video that showed how you could modify the OOBE flow to prompt for the time zone that […]
Send MDM commands without an MDM service using PowerShell
Sometimes you run into something completely by accident; other times, it’s more of a building process based on work that you’ve done in the past. In this case, it’s a combination of […]
How many ways are there to manage Autopilot devices and profiles?
Working on presentations frequently makes me revisit past stuff. And in this case, that “past stuff” predates my involvement with Windows Autopilot (I started working on it in 2018). Let’s go back […]
Fun with TPM firmware version numbers
I’ve spent a lot of time looking at Autopilot log files, hardware hashes, and TPM-related “stuff.” And it’s always puzzled me why things have to be so difficult. In this case, it’s […]
Connect the dots: Create your own hashes
My previous post was to figure out the format of an Autopilot (OAv3) hash. But there’s more to that intellectual exercise than the exercise itself, because I wanted to be able to […]
Connect the dots: Reverse-engineering an Autopilot hash
I previously posted details on breaking down an Autopilot hash (really, an OAv3 hash as these aren’t Autopilot-specific), leveraging the OA3TOOL.EXE utility in the ADK to convert the hash into a printable […]
What’s new in Windows 11, part 1
I did a presentation at a couple of events in October and November that went through a fairly lengthy list of new features in Windows 11. This builds on the information that […]
Windows Autopilot + Windows 11
Unless you’re living under a rock (in which case, you wouldn’t be reading this either), I’m sure you’ve seen that there was a leaked build of Windows 11 last week. But you […]
Correlating Hyper-V VMs that are registered with Windows Autopilot
Over time, I’ve created a whole bunch of VMs for testing Windows Autopilot. They are named so that I can keep track of the Windows 10 build, the environment they are tied […]
Outlook and Azure AD Join: Automatically configuring the user’s mailbox
In an average day, I provision a bunch of Windows 10 devices using Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot, including Office 365 ProPlus. But somehow I never actually launched Outlook (or if I […]
More on Windows Autopilot for existing devices
With any luck, you saw this morning’s blog post talking about Windows Autopilot for existing devices. In that blog, I talked about how this didn’t require any client-side changes to support joining […]
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