Michael Niehaus
Blogs, Articles, and Posts
Installing updates during Autopilot: Windows 11 edition, revisited again
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This seems to be a frequent blog topic, with posts going back to 2019: So why bring this up yet
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Jan 26 2024
This seems to be a frequent blog topic, with posts going back to 2019: So why bring this up yet
again? I blame Gary Block
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Jan 26 2024
Send MDM commands without an MDM service using PowerShell
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Sometimes you run into something completely by accident; other times, it's more of a building
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Sep 2 2022
Sometimes you run into something completely by accident; other times, it's more of a building
process based on work that you've done in the past.
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Sep 2 2022
Windows Autopilot health check: An experiment in Graph API scripting
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We have talked to a number of customers over the past months who have run into challenges with
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Jun 15 2022
We have talked to a number of customers over the past months who have run into challenges with
Windows Autopilot - sometimes these were simple configuration issues, other times they were self-inflicted pains (e.g. deleting Azure AD device objects associated with a registered Windows Autopilot device). But as we learn more about the types of challenges encountered, we get better at detecting those issues (and eventually we'll try to prevent them from happening). To help with the detection process, I've published a new script called AutopilotHealthCheck.ps1 to the PowerShell Gallery. You can install it using PowerShell quite easily, along with its pre-requisite modules.
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Jun 15 2022
Projects, Scripts, and Modules
New enhancements to Get-AutopilotDiagnosticsCommunity
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It started off as a simple change: I was annoyed that the "Observed Timeline" in the output from the
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Feb 9 2024
It started off as a simple change: I was annoyed that the "Observed Timeline" in the output from the
Get-AutopilotDiagnosticsCommunity (and the older Get-AutopilotDiagnostics script too) had events in the wrong order.
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Feb 9 2024
Fun
We need entertainment during ESP…
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We've all sat and watched the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) during an Autopilot provisioning process
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Apr 5 2024
We've all sat and watched the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) during an Autopilot provisioning process
- it's pretty boring overall, showing information that isn't really useful (e.g. what does "Preparing for mobile device management" really mean)
By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Apr 5 2024