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Category Archives: Windows AutoPilot
PC Buyback for Windows Autopilot devices – part 1
Introduction Windows Autopilot allows you to quickly enroll devices using policies, apps and settings applicable to your tenant, and that’s great for deploying new Windows devices. Those devices can be registered as Windows Autopilot registered devices by the OEM (Original … Continue reading
Posted in Intune, PCBuyback, Windows AutoPilot
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Automating group tags for Windows Autopilot registered devices
Introduction I’ve recently blogged about Provisioning Windows Autopilot devices to get the encrypted with Bitlocker at the factory to speed up compliance. You can review those blog posts below: Encrypting devices during Windows Autopilot provisioning (WhiteGlove) – Part 1 Encrypting … Continue reading
Posted in Graph, group tag, Intune, Windows AutoPilot
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Encrypting devices during Windows Autopilot provisioning (WhiteGlove) – Part 3
Introduction Note: This method is not officially supported by Microsoft. That said, this speeds up compliance and more importantly increases security as the device is already encrypted (part 1) before the user logs on (part 2). BitLocker recovery key changes … Continue reading
Posted in AzureAD, BitLocker, functionapp, httptrigger, Intune, win32 app, Windows AutoPilot
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Encrypting devices during Windows Autopilot provisioning (WhiteGlove) – Part 2
Introduction Windows Autopilot preprovisioning (WhiteGlove) is the ability to pre-stage content and policies to devices while it’s been installed in the factory. We had a challenge to speed up the overall compliance of Windows Autopilot devices and the obvious solution … Continue reading
Posted in BitLocker, Compliance, win32 app, Windows AutoPilot
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Migrate to the cloud – Part 1. Setup
Introduction This blog series is comprised of 3 parts. In this part I’ll cover how you can migrate your existing configuration manager managed, domain joined devices to Azure AD joined, and Intune managed devices. During that process the app also converts … Continue reading
Zscaler SSL inspection throwing a wobbler during OOBE in Windows Autopilot
Introduction Note: We’ve been using Windows Autopilot with Zscaler configured with Microsoft URLs whitelisted without issue for a long time, this latest problem is new. Read on for more… I needed to setup a virtual machine for a colleague, and … Continue reading
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Do you have required Win32 Apps skipping Windows Autopilot ESP or not installing until after login ?
Introduction I saw an interesting tweet from @brucesaaaa where he talked about issues observed in multiple tenants during Windows Autopilot enrollment with required Win32 apps. The following was seen for required deployments of Win32 apps during Windows Autopilot enrollment: ESP … Continue reading
Posted in Intune, IntuneWinAppUtil.exe, win32 app, Windows AutoPilot
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Forcing a time sync during Windows Autopilot OOBE to combat time related issues
Introduction I recently encountered an issue when after Windows Autopilot enrollment was completed, the end user was unable to browse on-premises network resources such as file shares when logged on with using the Windows Hello for Business login method. The … Continue reading
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Gathering logs and sending an email when you need to reset Windows Autopilot – part 3
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, httptrigger, troubleshooting, Windows 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
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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
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Troubleshooting application deployment failures during the Enrollment Status Page for Windows Autopilot
Introduction This blog post is basically my own troubleshooting flow after a recent Autopilot failure at work. The failure was linked to application installation and the cause was interesting. To verify what was going on I compared a failed Autopilot … Continue reading
Posted in Intune, troubleshooting, Windows AutoPilot
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How Microsoft uses Intune internally to manage Windows devices
Introduction These are my notes about a session I’ve attended at Microsoft Ignite 2019, you can review the recording for this session here. This session was delivered by Seth Malcolm, part of a team of Program Managers responsible for Intune … Continue reading
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Troubleshooting “Something went wrong error 801c0003” during enrollment via Windows AutoPilot and Microsoft Intune
Introduction Yesterday I needed to deploy a new Windows 10 version 1709 Virtual Machine using Windows AutoPilot, with a user that did not have Administrative permissions on that Virtual Machine, so I created the profile in Windows AutoPilot in the … Continue reading
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How can I use Windows AutoPilot with a Proxy ?
Introduction Microsoft describes Windows AutoPilot as “Windows AutoPilot is a suite of capabilities designed to simplify and modernize the deployment and management of new Windows 10 PCs”. That roughly translates to a cloud based method of deploying new Windows 10 … Continue reading
Posted in Intune, Windows AutoPilot
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