Monthly Archives: December 2020

Gathering logs and sending an email when you need to reset Windows Autopilot

Posted on December 29, 2020 by ncbrady

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 →

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Cloud attach – Endpoint Managers silver lining – part 1

Posted on December 23, 2020 by ncbrady

Microsoft released Windows Intune back in March 2011, this was their launch pad to get users into the cloud. This later evolved into Microsoft Intune and is now known as Microsoft Endpoint Manager. This cloud journey encompassed several new technologies … Continue reading →

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Adding devices to an Azure AD group after Windows Autopilot is complete – part 2

Posted on December 19, 2020 by ncbrady

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 →

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Adding devices to an Azure AD group after Windows Autopilot is complete – part 1

Posted on December 18, 2020 by ncbrady

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 →

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Displaying a welcome page after Windows Autopilot completes

Posted on December 14, 2020 by ncbrady

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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Video: deploy an OS via CMG using bootable media

Posted on December 10, 2020 by ncbrady

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

Posted on December 10, 2020 by ncbrady

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 →

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Improvements to BitLocker management in Endpoint Manager update 2010

Posted on December 3, 2020 by ncbrady

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 →

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