Teaching you how to be a device management expert
This post makes frequent references to a previous blog post I wrote specifically on deploying passwordless devices: Deploy Passwordless Devices for New Users – Device Advice. I split out the FIDO2 key section because...
Autopilot / Azure AD / Deployment / Intune / Microsoft Endpoint Manager / Mobile Device Management / Windows 10 / Zero Trust
There’s a lot of great discussion going on these days about getting rid of passwords – because they’re unsafe, hard to remember, frequently reused, etc. In that spirit, I’ve been exploring just how to...
Your organization may have a hard requirement to use smart cards (or PIV, CAC, etc.) for authentication. Maybe they’re also using ADFS, disabling passwords, and really don’t want to let anyone have a temporary...
In testing a provisioning package deployment, I found out that you can apply the PPKG to a domain-joined device so that it effectively becomes Hybrid Azure AD Joined. Although I’m not exactly sure if...
If your organization is using AD FS, you may start running into errors when you try testing Autopilot. Reason being – not every AD FS authentication method works during the out-of-box-experience. Let’s take a...
During some recent self-deploying Autopilot testing, I ran into an error with “device preparation” so I thought I’d share the simple resolution in case anyone runs into the same issue. From the event log...
Let’s start with the bad news up front – if you need to migrate devices to a new tenant you’ll basically need to reset and re-enroll every device. Why is that? For Azure AD...
Azure AD / Office 365 / Teams
Normally, personal Microsoft accounts don’t have access to the myapps.microsoft.com site. This would make sense because the MyApps site is generally used to access Azure Active Directory applications that were published to your organization...
Autopilot / Azure AD / Deployment / Intune / Security / Windows 10
If you’re seeing the “Your organization requires Windows Hello” or “Use Windows Hello with your account” prompt during the out of box experience (OOBE), but thinking to yourself – “I never set up Windows...
If you’ve ever set up a Windows 10 PC, you’ll know that at one point during the out-of-box-experience you will be prompted for Windows Hello set up. Most of the time you can configure...
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