This is the fourth and, for now, last blog post in the Windows Enrollment Attestation series. In it, I will explain how the three previous blogs led me to the […]
Autopilot Device Preparation: The Hardware Hash Voyage home
In this blog, I’ll dive into a key difference between traditional Autopilot and Autopilot Device Preparation (APv2). I’ll explain why the hardware hash is no longer needed when enrolling your […]
Local Administrator, and Autopilot Settings, and Entra Settings! Oh, my!
In this blog, I will examine the new Entra local administrator settings, which prevent users from becoming local administrators on their devices during the Entra ID Join. I will focus […]
Autopilot: Escape the Administrator
Did you ever run into an issue in which the user was still in the local administrator group after the device was enrolled with Windows Autopilot (at least that is […]
Autopilot: Only fail selected blocking apps in technician phase.
This blog will explain everything you want to know about this new ESP function called “Only fail selected blocking apps in technician phase (preview).
The Wonderful Story of APV2 Device Preparation
In one of my last blog posts, I described how I noticed that Autopilot Version 2, AKA APV2, was coming. This blog is the second in the Autopilot v2 series, […]
The Token Games: The Ballad of Autopilot and Profiles
This blog will be about me showing how the device tries to fetch its device token (x-device-token) and use it to fetch the Autopilot profile. I will also show you […]
The 41-Year-Old Hardware Hash Who Knocked Up Autopilot and Felt Superbad About It
In this blog, I will be talking about a sudden “HardwareMismatchDetected” I got when I was trying to enroll my Windows 10/11 device with Autopilot for Pre-provisioning deployments. 1. Introduction […]