Since the release of Windows 10, it has been common for organization to try and reduce the footprint of built-in apps (or default apps) in their reference images, or even during bare-metal deployment. [...]
Since the release in 2017 of Windows Autopilot we’ve been able to provision devices using cloud technologies and joining them to Azure Active Directory. Organizations have shown great interest in [...]
Deploying kiosks in Windows 10 through Microsoft Intune offers a straight forward means of locking down a system to a single or even a multi-app kiosk. Sandy has already covered how to set up a multi-app [...]
This is a post about enabling BitLocker on non-HSTI devices with Windows 10 version 1809 and standard user permissions. First of all a little background on HSTI. HSTI is a Hardware Security Testability [...]
While many are of the opinion that organizations should not customize the start menu during Windows 10 deployments, it’s happening almost in every Windows 10 project anyway. There are several blog [...]
Recently PowerBI had its birthday and I put a tweet out there on twitter asking what type of dashboard people would like to see in celebration. Well the results came in pretty quick and it was almost a [...]
The following post is all about a complete process automation of gathering and upload of a device Autopilot information to the Windows Autopilot service with an Azure Automation Runbook. Table of content [...]
Having tested Windows 10 Kiosk device configuration for many weeks now, it is time to write down my findings and experiences. Before I go to details how to configure multiple apps in Kiosk devices, I would [...]
With AutoPilot trending on twitter and in organizations around the world, we’re still creating reference images to support any existing solutions in place. The discussion whether to include Office [...]
Since the release of Windows 10, it has been common for organization to try and reduce the footprint of built-in apps (or default apps) in their reference images, or even during bare-metal deployment. [...]
Apple Admins conference On January 25th I had the pleasure of speaking at the London Apple Admins event at London School of Economics as it was a Apple event I spoke about the crossover with Intune and [...]
What is Auto-Pilot Windows AutoPilot is a collection of technologies used to set up and pre-configure new devices, getting them ready for productive use. I can really see the appeal we use XMA for our [...]
Azure AD Joined/Azure Device Registration/Intune Enrollment I have spent a lot of time over the past few months working with Azure and Intune, there are a lot of toys to play with and a lot you can do [...]
When dealing with Windows 10 upgrades on systems that have a single or multiple language packs installed, most of the time you’d want to keep the same experience in terms of language preferences [...]
What is Windows 10 fast startup Fast Startup in Windows 10 is supposed to help boot Windows up much faster. In a complete shutdown scenario, Windows logs off all users and closes all applications. Fast [...]
For a little more than one year ago, I posted a script that would automate the process of removing built-in applications when creating a Windows 10 reference image. Since then, the script has been amended [...]
In this second post on how to deal with the scenario of converting from BIOS to UEFI, we’ve come to Dell. This series of post consists of the following: Convert from BIOS to UEFI during Windows 10 [...]
I believe most of us use install application steps during operating system deployment, unless you are using fully dyna...
Several months ago I created a script that would allow someone to extract information from the ConfigMgr SQL Database an...
Since the release of Windows 10, it has been common for organization to try and reduce the footprint of built-in apps (o...