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Gathering logs and sending an email when you need to reset Windows Autopilot – part 2
Introduction In a previous blog post I explained how you could use the SendGrid resource in Azure to send emails, and with a PowerShell script create an Intune app to give end users additional options when resetting their Windows Autopilot … Continue reading
Posted in AzureAD, Intune, sendgrid, Windows 10
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Windows Hello For Business facial recognition not working ? try this
Introduction As part of Windows Autopilot provisioning and after the Windows Account Setup phase, if you’ve configured the option, the end user will be prompted to enable Windows Hello For Business using bio metric options such as facial recognition or … Continue reading
Gathering logs and sending an email when you need to reset Windows Autopilot
Introduction Windows Autopilot deployment profiles allow you to decide if the user is a local administrator or a standard user. With all the security concerns today, choosing an User account type of Standard as shown below is a logical choice, … Continue reading
Posted in AzureAD, company portal, Intune, PowerShell scripts, sendgrid
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Adding devices to an Azure AD group after Windows Autopilot is complete – part 2
Introduction In part 1 you learned how to use Azure functions and a http trigger to add a device to an Azure Ad security group. In this part you’ll see how it all fits together on the client side after … Continue reading
Posted in AzureAD, httptrigger, Intune, Windows 10 AutoPilot
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Adding devices to an Azure AD group after Windows Autopilot is complete – part 1
Introduction I’ve come across various problems during Windows Autopilot causing OOBE to fail that could be solved if only we could decide the order of when things were installed, and to resolve this in a nice way we wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in AzureAD, httptrigger, Intune, Windows 10 AutoPilot
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Displaying a welcome page after Windows Autopilot completes
Introduction Understanding when Windows Autopilot is complete is an interesting topic. It would be great if there was a reg-key or file that was set when Windows Autopilot completed successfully, but there isn’t, at least not now. In the meantime … Continue reading
Posted in Intune, welcome, Windows AutoPilot
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Video: deploy an OS via CMG using bootable media
Introduction I wrote a fairly long blog post explaining how to achieve OSD via CMG using bootable media here. That should outline all the steps needed to get you going. If however you want to see a closer look at … Continue reading
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Deploy an OS over CMG using bootable media
Introduction Microsoft released update 2010 on December 1st and one of the many new features was the ability to deploy an OS over CMG using bootable media. I tested out this ability when it first arrived in aTechnical Preview release … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, osd via cmg boot media
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Improvements to BitLocker management in Endpoint Manager update 2010
Introduction Microsoft released Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager update 2010 this week and it’s available now to install in production using the fast ring method. This release includes many very cool cloud friendly features that were recently show cased in the … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, BitLocker Management over CMG
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Logitech C920 webcam flickering with a Thinkpad Thunderbolt 3 gen 2 dock? try this
Introduction You may have read my working from home blog post here where I described my new setup. Some months after I wrote that blog post I purchased a Logitech C920 web camera and connected it to my Lenovo Thunderbolt … Continue reading
Posted in Logitech C920, WFH
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What to do when Endpoint Manager upgrades don’t go as planned. Hint: logs
Introduction Anyone that spends time with ConfigMgr knows that it’s an amazingly resilient product, and not only that, upgrades tend to go without a hitch. I needed to upgrade one of my old labs to test new functionality, but when … Continue reading
Posted in 1910, 2006, detach database, SQL Server 2017
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Office 365 issues after Windows Autopilot
Introduction I’m writing this post to catalog problems I recently faced while doing Windows Autopilot installations, we use a very slim enrollment Status Page (ESP) configuration with only one app marked as required (Microsoft Edge Chromium). The remaining applications are … Continue reading
Posted in Intune, Windows AutoPilot
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Creating the MacOS Big Sur ISO
Introduction Big Sur is the latest version of MacOS from Apple. I needed the Big Sur ISO (to create a virtual machine) to test various things like Intune and Jamf enrollment but doing so was tricky and these are my … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Big Sur
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Surface Pro X – PXE-E16: no valid offer received
Introduction I decided to write this blog post to explain what happens if you try to image a Microsoft Surface Pro X using PXE boot (booting over the network) with Configuration Manager (Endpoint Configuration Manager) or MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft Surface, Surface Pro X
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