If you’re going to be in Minneapolis next month for the EUC World Amplify event, being held from August 4-7 on the University of Minnesota campus, be sure to look me up — I’ll be …| Out of Office Hours
In the “it’s about time” category, this one popped up on Bluesky today from Tero Alhonen: It’s time to start paying attention to the new Insider builds in the dev channel, since […]| Out of Office Hours
The latest “what’s new” doc update for Intune includes this tidbit: So now you can restrict ARM64 apps appropriately. Considering how many years ago this was first discussed, it&#…| Out of Office Hours
Version 3.1.0 is now available with a variety of fixed based on customer feedback. See the release information for more details: https://github.com/mtniehaus/AutopilotBranding/releases/tag/3.1.0 Note that this version doesn’t use IntuneWinAppUtil.exe directly. Instead, the […]| Out of Office Hours
Autopilot v2, a.k.a. Autopilot device preparation, was announced on May 22, 2024, it wasn’t really done yet. From the original annoucement (highlight added by me): Not sure about what they consider “soon” […]| Out of Office Hours
In my previous post about pre-provisioning, I showed three apps (MDT, Office, and PowerToys) that I was installing as part of a task sequence. What I didn’t show was the details for […]| Out of Office Hours
Over a year ago when Autopilot v2 (a.k.a. device preparation) was announced, one of the missing features was pre-provisioning (formerly “white glove provisioning”). Maybe one of these days it will finally emerge. […]| Out of Office Hours
When Microsoft announced Autopilot v2 (a.k.a. Autopilot device provisioning), they mentioned: Hybrid AD join is no longer recommended for use with Autopilot deployments. Autopilot device preparation profiles do not support Hybrid AD […]| Out of Office Hours
2025-05-30: Added a section at the bottom based on social media chatter. Microsoft has been investing quite a bit of effort into adding new functionality into Notepad, including AI functionality to…| Out of Office Hours
The title says it all — well, not quite because the full description is more involved and nuanced. This post on LinkedIn from Sameer Agarwal, an Intune engineer at Microsoft, explains more: […]| Out of Office Hours
In preparation for an MMSMOA 2025 session where I am talking about the Autopilot Branding package (among other things), I figured it was a good time to look through the feedback, issues, […]| Out of Office Hours
I was working on some changes to the Autopilot Branding package and testing them out on Windows 11 24H2 and noticed a problem: One of the registry values I was trying to […]| Out of Office Hours
When you initially sign into Windows, by default you’ll see the “pulsing color” screen as first-time “things” are done in the background: You can disable that “first sign-in animation” via GPO, MDM […]| Out of Office Hours
I’ve done a few troubleshooting blog posts over the years, and they are easily the most popular on my site. This one in particular is still going strong (#1 post of all time), almost five yea…| Out of Office Hours
I’ve seen a lot of blog posts about registering devices with Windows Autopilot, either at a command prompt in OOBE (Shift-F10, run PowerShell) or as part of some other automation. Now with Au…| Out of Office Hours
Back when Autopilot v2 was announced, and carried over into the documentation, is a claim: [Windows Autopilot device preparation, a.k.a. Autopilot v2] reduces the time IT spends on deploying device…| Out of Office Hours
I have one big Hyper-V server, currenting running Windows Server 2022 Datacenter, that I use for lots of things (with 12 cores, 272GB RAM, 8TB of disk space). Upgrading it to Windows Server 2025 sh…| Out of Office Hours
TL;DR: SCCM maintenance tasks for WSUS no longer work if you are using WSUS with the Windows Internal Database (WID). When looking at the SCCM wsyncmgr.log, I noticed some SQL exceptions that […]| Out of Office Hours
Microsoft enabled automatic updates for PowerShell with the release of PowerShell 7.2; that continues now with PowerShell 7.4. If you’re devices are updated from Windows Update directly and you’ve enabled updates when […]| Out of Office Hours
I spent a lot of time in the weeds around Windows licensing, but I’d prefer to forget it all. Sadly, that’s usually not an option, especially as I work on Windows imaging […]| Out of Office Hours
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