A thread spun up internally around unexpected reboots happening during Autopilot. A suggestion to the person who opened the thread was to remove their Windows Update Ring in Intune and see if the behavior goes away. It did. Windows Update Rings and ManagePreviewBuilds This was surprising because we had fixed this issue back in the…
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If you are using Windows Autopilot and are using a custom image, you may run across an error that says Something Went Wrong with an error message that says Autopilotupdate (clearly not a very useful error). Resolution: When sysprepping an image, there's a registry key (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Provisioning\AutopilotPolicy) that gets removed when sysprep generalizes the image. This…
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Scenario - Enroll existing, non-Autopilot enrolled devices to Azure AD and Intune (or 3rd party MDM). This is useful for devices that are currently used by a customer but not enrolled into Autopilot. The benefits are that the customer doesn't need to collect the Autopilot hardware information. This process will use an existing User Driven…
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In my previous post on Configuring Windows 10 Devices to Wake and Update Outside of Class Time I discussed how we can manage shared devices with Windows 10 and wake and update those devices leveraging the new Shared PC Configuration Service Provider (CSP). In this new video, I repeat some of the benefits and methods…
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Problem Today, many productivity hours are lost due to software updates installing during class time resulting in frustrated users. Customers that are leveraging traditional management solutions such as System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) or other 3rd party tools don't have an easy way of updating these devices outside of class time. Solutions such as Wake…
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How to Create a Self-Extracting Installer using 7Zip for Complex Applications for use with Windows Configuration Designer A challenge that may arise when trying to use modern deployment techniques with Windows 10 is the need to deploy applications that have complex installation methods. These methods may use setup.exe's that call .msi files or have multiple…
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