The Microsoft Intune Team has been busy at work releasing new features. One of those features that was released in the Service release 2301 was the ability to create filters based on the device’s Azure AD Join Type (aka deviceTrustType). This is really handy when there is the need to target devices based on this…
August 25, 2022 Windows KB5012170 is turning out to be one of those patches that is causing a ton of headaches. The biggest one is for those user’s that got the lovely BitLocker Recovery screen but had no idea what their BitLocker recovery key is or where to find it. This happened to my father-in-law’s…
If you are familiar with the work that Gary Blok and I have done on BIOS and Drivers, you will already know that we like to use extra fields on the Package properties to store meta date that we use for reporting and automation. Four of the fields that we like to use are on…
If you have worked with Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager (MEMCM, CM for short and previously known as SCCM) for more than a day, you are probably aware of its immense power that it can yield on any and all of the clients it manages. It has an extremely mature Role Based Administration model that…
The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (aka DaRT) is a powerful toolset that is available to Software Assurance customers. Johan Arwidmark recently wrote a post called Back to Basics – Reset the Windows 10 Admin Password using DaRT that covers the steps for creating the recovery media. The DaRT Recovery Image Wizard will generate a…
If you have been involved with any kind of Windows deployments or Windows Update deployments in the last five or so years, you probably heard of the concept of deployment rings. Microsoft has been pushing this concept ever since they have moved to an ‘as a Service’ model for Windows 10 and other Microsoft products…
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