I have to change my mind. While a clean install of the 24H2 Insider Preview ISO (26100.560) does have WMIC as an installed-by-default feature, the updated 26100.712 version does not. I guess whoeve…| Out of Office Hours
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Windows PowerShell 5.1, the version that’s built into Windows, shipped back in 2016 with the release of Windows 10 1607 and Windows Server 2016, with support for older OSes back to Windows 7 …| Out of Office Hours
I mentioned in my previous post that I was able to use “Co-management Authority” (a.k.a. “Co-management settings”) to install the ConfigMgr agent and then initiate a task se…| Out of Office Hours
Phil Wilcock posted a blog last week with details about “non-peerable” content, pointing to Microsoft’s official documentation about what is and isn’t “peerable.”…| Out of Office Hours
In the slow march to its final death, the Microsoft Store for Business (and presumably the Microsoft Store for Education as well) has removed the ability to add, edit, and remove Autopilot devices.…| Out of Office Hours
My first thoughts around Autopilot v2 (a.k.a. Autopilot device preparation) are scattered through a week of posts: Digging into Windows Autopilot v2 Windows Autopilot v2 experience: Some surprises …| Out of Office Hours
One of the things that is not currently included in the APv2 device preparation policy is an option to configure the computer name, so as a result the devices end up being given a random name like …| Out of Office Hours
People have made fun of Microsoft’s progress bars for decades. We’ve all seen examples, e.g. file copies that show days, then minutes, then hours; “updating Windows” message…| Out of Office Hours
The social media DMs, e-mails, and blog comments around Autopilot v2 have raised a bunch of questions, interesting points, speculation, opinions, etc. I figured it would be useful to summarize thos…| Out of Office Hours
On May 1st, Microsoft e-mailed me to congratulate me: Today, the e-mail was to take that away: The basic justification given for that was that the Intune product group was not comfortable sharing N…| Out of Office Hours
Now that my “real” lab tenant has been updated, I can easily try it out. I set up a new unregistered VM, created a new Autopilot device preparation profile that targeted “All user…| Out of Office Hours
Yes, I know the official name is “Windows Autopilot Device Preparation.” But that’s too much of a mouthful and doesn’t really even describe what this is, other than “s…| Out of Office Hours
After doing a clean install of Windows 11 24H2 (Insider Preview), I noticed that there was a new “Learn about this picture” icon on the desktop. There’s nothing I hate more than s…| Out of Office Hours
