As Rudy Ooms discovered on the Microsoft 365 Message Center, bulletin MC1134168 announced a change coming with the September 2025 cumulative update: You’ll be able to install updates at the end of […]| Out of Office Hours
Windows Autopilot WhiteGlove Provisioning Backend Process- Deep Dive. Information and help you to learn and get to the root blocks of Windows Autopilot.| How to Manage Devices Community Blog Modern Device Management Guides
How to Use Enterprise State Roaming ESR Windows Autopilot. Also, let's go through and understand how useful is ESR feature for Windows Autopilot Deployment.| How to Manage Devices Community Blog Modern Device Management Guides
Let's learn how you can enable Windows Autopilot Diagnostics Page. By enabling the Windows Autopilot Diagnostics Page, IT administrators can have a better| How to Manage Devices Community Blog Modern Device Management Guides
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
Learn how to fix Microsoft Intune and Entra ID enrollment issues like error 0x80180014. This guide covers device visibility, orphaned records, and Autopilot troubleshooting for Windows and Microsoft Teams Rooms.| Thomas Marcussen
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
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
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 merged in changes from the community to create a new release on GitHub, which you can find here: You can find the release notes on the release itself: Follow the links to the pull requests (…| Out of Office Hours
Remember the change planned for October to start installing updates during OOBE? The one that didn’t have any controls? The one that interrupts the Autopilot user-driven flow by rebooting the computer in […]| Out of Office Hours
That might seem like an obvious statement: the OneDrive client is updated frequently, so of course the version of OneDrive that is included in Windows 10 and 11 media is going to […]| Out of Office Hours
A while back, I noticed that updates were installing at the end of the Autopilot process, after device ESP had completed and before the user signed in. Per Microsoft’s post, this is now going…| Out of Office Hours
Microsoft published KB5043950 which describes an issue where the Defender for Endpoint agent (Sense client) isn’t installed as expected on Windows 11 24H2. This can happen when a device is up…| Out of Office Hours
While doing some Autopilot (v1) pre-provisioning work using the latest Windows 11 Insider Canary ring build (27695), I noticed a new item in the UI: If you try it out, you can see a rough version o…| 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
If you missed it this past week, let me first point you to the source: Windows deployment with the next generation of Windows Autopilot So what did this blog tell you? Certainly that there are chan…| Out of Office Hours
In the first part, I set up Workspace ONE and integrated it into my existing Entra ID (Azure AD) tenant. In part 2, I set up apps and policies that should be deployed to my devices. That prepares m…| Out of Office Hours
In the first part, I got to the point where I could successfully get a device into a managed state, but that doesn’t mean the device is actually usable. To get it to that state, I need to dep…| Out of Office Hours
I’ve spent a lot of time over the years talking to ISVs about provisioning Windows devices, but I’ve never actually used any non-Microsoft solutions for doing that. In that time, one of…| 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
You’ve probably run into a scenario like this before and never understood why: You assign a new, seemingly harmless policy into a configuration profile in Intune, and now the device reboots a…| Out of Office Hours
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 i…| Out of Office Hours
We’ve all sat and watched the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) during an Autopilot provisioning process — it’s pretty boring overall, showing information that isn’t really usefu…| Out of Office Hours
Back in 2022, I did a post about using the MDM terms of use page (which is almost never actually used since Azure AD now has a better solution as part of conditional access) to prompt for informati…| Out of Office Hours
I’ve been used to the routine: If an app fails to install during Autopilot with ESP monitoring the progress, you don’t find out about it right away. Instead, you would have to wait unti…| Out of Office Hours
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 sequen…| Out of Office Hours
It seems like a simple question, but a complete answer isn’t necessarily simple. We can start off with the documentation: OK, so about every 8 hours. But it’s different right after you …| Out of Office Hours
A year ago, I released the Autopilot Manager to support Autopilot hash imports during Windows OOBE via an approval process (if not already familiar with Autopilot Manager, please read here Introducing Autopilot Manager first) and the solution is used by a lot of companies in the meanwhile. This is quite some time to discuss about…| Modern IT – Cloud – Workplace
It’s a question that’s come up a number of times: How can I take a device running Windows 11 Home, upgrade it to Windows 11 Education, and provision it via Windows Autopilot? I suppose …| Out of Office Hours
It started off as a simple change: I was annoyed that the “Observed Timeline” in the output from the Get-AutopilotDiagnosticsCommunity (and the older Get-AutopilotDiagnostics script too…| Out of Office Hours
This seems to be a frequent blog topic, with posts going back to 2019: Installing Windows updates during a Windows Autopilot deployment. My first attempt, back in October 2019. It worked to install…| Out of Office Hours
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…| Out of Office Hours