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Enrolling a Mac Book Pro (M1) into Jamf Pro

Introduction This is a short post to describe what I had to do to manually enroll a brand new Apple Mac Book Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) into Jamf. This is for non-DEP M1 Macs.It involved some manual steps and I’m … Continue reading

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Technical Preview 2101 – Feature update in a task sequence

Introduction Microsoft just released Technical Preview 2101, it’s the first technical preview this year and it’s packed with new features. Let’s take a look at one of those new features and it is the ability to update Windows using feature … Continue reading

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Cloud attach – Endpoint Managers silver lining – part 3 Creating a Cloud Management Gateway

Introduction This is part 3 in a series of guides about cloud attach in Microsoft Endpoint Manager, with the aim of getting you up and running with all things cloud attach. This part will focus on creating a Cloud Management … Continue reading

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Cloud attach – Endpoint Managers silver lining – part 2

Introduction This is part 2 in a series of guides about cloud attach in Microsoft Endpoint Manager, with the aim of getting you up and running with all things cloud attach. This part will focus on preparing your environment for … Continue reading

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Windows Autopilot: Gathering logs and sending an email when resetting windows

Introduction I’ve posted two blog posts about this already, but to explain it thoroughly I’ve created a video to explain how to test and use this ability. Here are the blog posts: Gathering logs and sending an email when resetting … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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Cloud attach – Endpoint Managers silver lining – part 1

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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