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Understanding the Default Compliance Policy Enrolled User Exist
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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...
Rudy Ooms
Windows Autopilot Stuck on Identifying The KB5065848 Story
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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...
Rudy Ooms
BitLocker Policies Not Getting Applied in Intune (65000).
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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...
Rudy Ooms
Windows Backup for Organizations
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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,...
Rudy Ooms
Autopilot Enrollment Fails After Terms of Use Unexpected Page.j
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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...
Rudy Ooms
Userless Enrollment Status in Autopilot How to Unblock Devices
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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...
Rudy Ooms
Why Intune Remote Actions are Fast at First but Slow the Next Day
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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....
Rudy Ooms
Windows Hello PIN Stops Working After the Windows 11 24H2 Upgrade
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Windows Hello PIN Stops Working After the Windows 11 24H2 Upgrade
This blog examines a login issue that may arise after the Windows 11 24H2 upgrade is complete and the device reboots. After the device reboots, the user signs in with Windows Hello using his...
Rudy Ooms
Download IntuneWin Win32App Files directly from Intune
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Download IntuneWin Win32 App Files Directly from Intune
This blog explains how to download the original IntuneWin Win32 app package from Intune when you no longer have the original source files. If you find yourself in a situation where you need the...
Rudy Ooms
There was a problem resetting your PC Debugging Remote Wipe Failures and 0x800f0991
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Intune Remote Wipe ending up in “There was a problem resetting your PC” (0x800f0991)?
In this blog, we’ll walk through a remote wipe issue that leaves devices in a lingering, unmanaged state, where the Intune object is removed, the device appears to remain fully usable, but the...
Rudy Ooms