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Kiosk Devices: Win32Apps stuck: Waiting for Install Status
This blog will explore a common issue with Win32 app updates on Intune-managed kiosk devices. While these devices are designed for restricted access and often run without an Entra user session, this...
Rudy Ooms
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Invalid Token: Why Autopilot Pre-Provisioning Fails with 801c03ed
This blog explores what happened when a device enrolled with Autopilot pre-provisioning got stuck at “Please Wait while we set up your device” for 10 minutes, ending with error 801c03ed...
Rudy Ooms
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Enhancing Your Security Posture: Key Practices for Organizations
Welcome to the complete guide to understanding your organization’s security posture and how it relates to security practice. This guide covers the hows and whys of security posture, such as how...
Carrie Cook
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BitLocker Stale Recovery Key Cleanup: No More Silent Encryption Failures
It’s well known that Microsoft Entra ID supports a maximum of 200 BitLocker recovery keys per device. Once this limit is reached, new recovery keys cannot be escrowed to...
Rudy Ooms
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Windows Quality Updates during the out-of-box experience
In this blog, we’ll explore the new Quality updates introduced in the out-of-box experience (OOBE), also known as the Windows Update Experience (NDUP), in the latest Windows build. With these...
Rudy Ooms
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Your Complete Guide to Windows Update Registry Settings: WSUS, Intune, & ConfigMgr
Understanding Windows Update Registry Settings This article aims to help readers better understand where devices are pulling their Windows updates from based on the Windows Update registry...
Chris Dalton
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Intune Collect Diagnostics: How It Works & The Missing WNS Push Notification Issue
Have you ever wondered how Intune’s Collect Diagnostics feature gathers logs from managed devices? In this deep dive, we break down the entire process, from Graph API requests to CSP execution,...
Rudy Ooms
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Troubleshooting Windows Feature Updates Enrollment with Graph
Introduction Managing Windows Feature Updates via Intune and Windows Update for Business (WUfB) should be straightforward….at least, in theory. We configured a Feature Updates Policy to...
Rudy Ooms
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Clearing the TPM on a Dell Device: Why the EKpub and Offline Device ID Change
Introduction In our last Patch Tuesday blog, we discussed TPM attestation failures that are happening on Windows 11 24H2, specifically during the Endorsement Key (EK) Verify phase. This caused...
Rudy Ooms
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Autopilot Device Preparation and the Administrator Bug
Setting up devices using Windows Autopilot Device Preparation should be straightforward. To do so, we need to configure the policy, assign apps and scripts, and let the Windows Autopilot handle the...
Rudy Ooms