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Windows 365 web client can now use the local PC’s web camera

Introduction In the latest Windows 365 update from Microsoft, they’ve added a long awaited and desired feature, the ability to use the local PC’s web camera in your Cloud PC via the web client. The web client is another way … Continue reading

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A quick look at Configuration Manager 2307 Technical Preview

Introduction The Configuration Manager technical preview release cadence produces less releases this year compared to previous years, but at least a new one is now released and it includes a lot of useful changes. The last technical preview release was … Continue reading

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Windows 365 end user improvements – open in browser, open in desktop app

Introduction The Windows 365 product group keep on listening to customer feedback and adding new features. One recent example of this is the following new setting, when browsing to https://windows365.microsoft.com you can now open in browser or open in desktop … Continue reading

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An update about location redirection on Windows 365 Cloud PCs

Introduction In a previous post I blogged about my experiences with a new feature called Location Redirection for Windows 365 Cloud PCs, but in my testing I couldn’t get it to work (or so I thought). I reached out to … Continue reading

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A quick look at some of the new features in the Windows 365 app

Introduction Microsoft has been putting a huge amount of focus, development, and programming new features based on customer feedback into Windows 365. In this blog post I’ll summarize a few of the most recent changes to the Windows 365 App. … Continue reading

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Troubleshooting Windows 365 connection issues via the troubleshoot option in the Windows 365 app

Introduction I was working on a blog post with my good buddy Paul (@sccmmentor) about Windows 365 Boot when I noticed that I couldn’t connect to one of the Cloud PCs from the Windows 365 Boot physical device. Instead, I … Continue reading

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Getting started with Windows 365 – Part 8. Windows 365 Boot

Introduction This is Part 8 in a new series of guides about getting started with Windows 365. This series of guides will help you to learn all about Windows 365 in a clear and insightful way. This series is co-written … Continue reading

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Location redirection in Windows 365

Introduction Microsoft recently added the ability to use location redirection with Windows 365 Cloud PC’s. The ability is still in preview but worthwhile checking out. Location redirection lets Cloud PCs access your approximate location safely without any privacy concerns. By … Continue reading

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Technical Preview 2305 is out – should you upgrade ? YES

Introduction Configuration Manager Technical Previews are not released every month as they used to be,  the last Technical Preview release was TP2303. The focus clearly is now on Cloud and AI related stuff like CoPilot. However we now finally have … Continue reading

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Troubleshooting SCEP: Certificate enroll failed. Result: (Gateway timeout (504).).

Introduction We had an issue where Windows Autopilot enrollments were hanging (and later failing) in the Account Setup phase.This problem occurred when the device should be applying a certificate targeted to the user via SCEP/NDES, but it was failing. The … Continue reading

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Using alternate ANCs in your Windows 365 provisioning policy

Introduction If you are new to Windows 365 Cloud PC‘s please check out our series about Getting Started with Windows 365. Microsoft recently blogged about the ability to use alternate ANCs (Azure Network Connection) when Provisioning Cloud PCs so that … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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Encrypting devices during Windows Autopilot provisioning (WhiteGlove) – Part 1

Introduction Note: This is not supported by Microsoft and your mileage may vary. That said, this speeds up compliance and more importantly increases security as the device is already encrypted by the time the user logs on (in Part 2). … Continue reading

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