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Windows Finally Translates Entra Group and Role SIDs to Real Names
This blog covers one of the most requested features ever: finally being able to automatically translate Entra group SIDs into readable names on the device itself.
Introduction
If you added an...
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The Truth About the 8-Hour Intune Sync (and Why It’s a Myth)
This blog will address one of the biggest misunderstandings I hear regarding Intune: the misconception that Windows devices ONLY receive new policies every eight hours. That belief sounds...
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Why Do Required Apps Wait 60 Minutes After Autopilot Enrollment?
This blog is about the 60-minute delay that occurs before the required Win32 apps are installed after Autopilot. ESP blocking apps complete without issue, but once the user reaches the desktop,...
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Understanding the Default Compliance Policy: What’s Changed and Why Devices Stay Compliant
This blog explores the behavior change in Intune’s built-in compliance policy, specifically why devices are still marked as compliant even when the original enrolled user has long since left the...
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Windows Autopilot Stuck on Identifying: The KB5065848 Story
It was a rough week for Intune. First, BitLocker policies suddenly stopped applying without any good reason. The event logs indicated that the BitLocker policy was applied, but the disk still had...
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BitLocker Policies Not Getting Applied in Intune (65000)
This blog will discuss a case where BitLocker policies pushed during Windows Autopilot appeared to be applied in the event logs, but they never actually were applied successfully. Instead, every...
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Windows Backup for Organizations: ESR 2.0 With a New Skin?
This blog outlines the new Windows Backup for Organizations feature introduced in Windows 11 by Microsoft. They replace the old “Sync your settings” controls with a modernized backup experience,...
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Autopilot Enrollment Fails After Terms of Use Acceptance
This blog will be about a strange Autopilot failure we could reproduce again and again. Right after the Terms of Use was accepted, the device doesn’t join Entra ID but instead stops with an...
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Userless Enrollment Status in Autopilot: How to Unblock Devices
This blog will be about a lesser-known feature in Windows Autopilot: the Userless Enrollment Status. We’ll look at how devices can end up in a blocked state after a reset, why that prevents...
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Why Intune Remote Actions are Fast at First but Slow the Next Day
This blog dives into how Intune remote actions actually work. On day one, remote actions like BitLocker key rotation, diagnostics collection, or EPM support approvals are applied almost instantly....
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