New version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit released!
A new version of MDT, build 8456, was released today. You can read about all the changes here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/mdt/release-notes and download it from here:...
View ArticleUSB media and Windows Information Protection
If you do lots of Windows deployments, you likely create USB media fairly frequently. But if you are using Windows Information Protection (WIP), you could run into problems if that USB key is used on...
View ArticleAssigning Autopilot profiles by exception
I mentioned in my previous blog that I typically use an “All Autopilot Devices” dynamic group to assign an Autopilot profile automatically to most devices, while using two additional groups to let me...
View ArticleEvaluating/Testing/Demoing modern deployment with Windows Autopilot
Whether you are evaluating Windows Autopilot for the first time, testing out new features and capabilities, or demoing it to new customers, you’re typically going through the same basic steps: Getting...
View ArticleRevisiting Windows Autopilot for existing devices
Back in October, I posted a blog talking about speeding up Windows Autopilot for existing devices, with a custom task sequence template to avoid the extra sysprep generalize and specialize that happens...
View ArticleBlocking for app installation using Enrollment Status Page
When you do an Autopilot deployment, we recommend configuring the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) to block until those app installations are done – the user won’t be able to get to the desktop until the...
View ArticleTrying out Windows Autopilot User-Driven Hybrid Azure AD Join
With Windows 10 1809 now available, we’ve added new scenarios to Windows Autopilot. You can read about them in the announcement blogs: Windows Autopilot: What’s new and what’s next (overview)...
View ArticleSpeeding up Windows Autopilot for existing devices
At Ignite 2018, we announced Windows Autopilot for existing devices, a new feature designed to migrate devices from Windows 7 (or any other version of Windows, i.e. 8.1 or 10), Active Directory-joined...
View ArticleA recap from Microsoft Ignite 2018
Another Ignite conference has been completed, and I’m on my way back home to sleep for as long as possible. For those that weren’t able to attend, or for those that did attend but weren’t watching the...
View ArticleNew Windows Autopilot resources available
It’s been a busy day for new Windows Autopilot resources. First, we launched a new Windows Autopilot landing page, with high-level details about Windows Autopilot capabilities and feature (with more...
View ArticleAutopilot profile assignment using Intune
We’ve had questions over the past several months, as customers scale up with Autopilot, about how to assign an Autopilot profile to new devices, as it can get kind of tedious to have to do this...
View ArticleDeploying a kiosk using Windows Autopilot
In today’s Tech Community blog, we talk about a variety of new Autopilot features. For the Autopilot self-deploying mode, I thought it would be useful to get into more of the specifics of how to...
View ArticleYet another way to clean up in-box apps
Starting with Windows 10 version 1703, you can now remove provisioned in-box apps like Xbox using the MDM platform capabilities built into Windows. (If you think you need to use this to remove Candy...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Improvements in Windows Autopilot
I wrote a couple of blogs (the basics and the more advanced scenarios) about troubleshooting Windows Autopilot late last year, which focused on the capabilities that existed at that point in time. But...
View ArticleNEW: Upgrade to Windows 10 1803 without suspending BitLocker
One of the new features mentioned in the What’s new in Windows 10 1803 documentation is a new ability to perform a feature update without suspending BitLocker. This is what it says: New command-line...
View ArticleCleaning up apps to keep Windows 10 sysprep happy
As we documented at https://support.microsoft.com/en-sg/help/2769827/sysprep-fails-after-you-remove-or-update-windows-store-apps-that-inclu, sysprep will fail when creating a custom Windows 10 image if...
View ArticleManaging Windows AutoPilot devices using the Intune Graph API
A while back, I published a sample script called Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo, which is designed to help define existing computers with the Windows AutoPilot deployment service, See...
View ArticlePrinting to on-prem printers from Azure AD-joined devices
Since most of us have been using Active Directory for ages, you probably also take for granted the process for printing to your on-premises printers: They are published to Active Directory, you can...
View ArticleConfigMgr task sequences from the internet
After some campaigning and some quick work from the ConfigMgr team for the ConfigMgr tech preview 1802 release, you can now use non-OSD task sequences, such as those that install apps or perform...
View ArticleMore on included Windows 10 apps
I’ve stated this publicly a few times, but many people don’t realize the distinction so I’ll repeat it again here. There are provisioned apps included in Windows 10 (that you can remove, see...
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