Autopilot Registered, Profile Assigned… but still getting Generic OOBE

| | Intune

I recently assisted a client with an unusual Autopilot (v1) issue I hadn’t seen before. While the solution turned out to be straightforward, it required dusting off some old Autopilot knowledge and revisiting the prerequisites and requirements. This organization had been using Autopilot for a few years without any issues, and then, seemingly out of […]

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Deploy custom Microsoft Word AutoCorrect replacement settings with Intune

| | Intune

Most organizations are fine using the built-in autocorrect options in Microsoft Word. AutoCorrect will automatically fix commonly misspelled or mistyped words. For example, you may mistakenly type “teh” instead of “the”. AutoCorrect will automatically correct “teh” to “the” for you. The dictionary of autocomplete settings can be found in Word > File > Options >

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Convert Entra Connect Synchronized Users To Cloud Managed Identities

| | Azure, M365

If you’re using Entra Connect and you’re planning to eliminate Active Directory, you’ll eventually need to remove Entra Connect and convert all users to cloud-managed identities. Entra Connect synchronizes your AD identities with Entra, giving the users a cloud identity in addition to their on-prem identity. However, AD remains the source of authority for management.

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Is Per-User MFA really disabled? Maybe not if its breaking your Entra-Joined W365/AVD Connections

| | Entra, Windows

If you didn’t already know, per user MFA can cause issues when connecting to Entra-Joined Azure virtual machines. Specifically, AVD and Windows 365 instances. When this happens, you will get an error when signing in like this: That error is almost always pointing to one of two things: I had an interesting situation where we

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Import all 24H2 Security Baseline Policies with a Script

| | Intune

Over the last few weeks, several posts have been made about the release of the Windows 11 24H2 security baselines. If you’re unfamiliar with security baselines, they’re a pre-configured set of security settings based on Microsoft’s best security practices. Applying all security baseline settings, especially in an existing environment, can cause chaos and problems for

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