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Windows 365 – Your connection failed – Error Code 0x3000047

Introduction While trying to connect to my Windows 365 Cloud PC using the Remote Desktop app, I got the following error. An error occurred while accessing this resource. Retry the connection or contact your system administrator. as shown here clicking … Continue reading

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USA Windows 365 User Group session – video available

Introduction I recently presented a session with Paul Winstanley in a USA Windows 365 User Group meetup focused on all things Windows 365. The meetup included some great ‘what’s new’ content from Microsoft Program Manager Christiaan Brinkhoff and some great … Continue reading

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Getting started with Windows 365 – Part 4. Connecting to your Cloud PC

Introduction This is Part 4 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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How can I resize a Windows 365 Cloud PC

Introduction Cloud PCs can come in certain preset configurations based on templates, or you can choose to customize your own. Sometimes you may find that a Cloud PC is not powerful enough for a user, or is too powerful and … Continue reading

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New video: Resolving expired certificates in a PKI (HTTPS) based SCCM OSD Lab

Introduction I use PKI based labs to test various scenarios from Microsoft. I’ve multiple SCCM (Configuration Manager) labs that are running in HTTPS only mode (PKI) using a two tier PKI infratstructure (Offline Root CA, Issuing CA). Using multiple labs … Continue reading

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What is the Windows 365 App ?

Introduction Satya Nadella just announced the Windows 365 app at Ignite 2022 today, and you can see that in the keynote below. He said that the new app means you can access Windows 365 directly from your taskbar or start … Continue reading

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Using Windows 365 with Linux

Introduction Linux is a free open-source operating system that has grown in market share over the years and is now found in many different versions (distributions or ‘distros’). I wanted to see exactly how well my Windows 365 Cloud PC … Continue reading

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Getting started with Windows 365 – Part 3. Provisioning a Hybrid Azure Ad Joined Cloud PC

Introduction This is Part 3 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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Technical Preview 2209 is out, adds improvements to search in the console and dark mode theme

Introduction Microsoft recently released another technical preview release for Configuration Manager (MEMCM) namely Technical Preview 2209. I upgraded my lab to see what was new, and during the upgrade I noticed a warning in the Update Pack Installation Status, so … Continue reading

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Technical Preview 2208 is out, adds RBAC for tenant attached devices

Introduction Microsoft have released Technical Preview for ConfigMgr 2208, and with it a new RBAC feature for tenant attached devices. ConfigMgr 2208 now supports Intune role-based access control (RBAC) in addition to Configuration Manager RBAC for tenant attached devices. You … Continue reading

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Getting started with Windows 365 – Part 2. Provisioning an Azure Ad Joined Cloud PC

Introduction This is Part 2 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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How can I use multiple monitors with Windows 365

Introduction Windows 365 gives you the power to do your job anywhere, and when you install the Remote Desktop app (available for Windows, iOS, Android, Mac) you’ll be able to get your job done using multiple monitors. I’m a great … Continue reading

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How can I delete a Windows 365 Cloud PC

Introduction If you are testing Windows 365 and want to delete your Cloud PC in order to start over again from scratch, the process is (currently) not that straightforward, but that’s what I’ll cover in this blog post.  Note that … Continue reading

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Saving electricity in your home lab using Powershell – part 3. Using WOL to wake the lab on demand

Introduction In the previous blog posts we learned how to run scheduled tasks to save (hibernate) all running virtual machines and then power off the hyperv lab to save electricity.  Next we added another task/script to resume all the previously … Continue reading

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Saving electricity in your home lab using Powershell – part 2. Starting the previously running vms after power on

Introduction In a part 1, I showed you how you can automatically power off your hyperv-lab using a scheduled task and Powershell, I modified the original script in that blog post to also write the current running VM’s to a … Continue reading

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