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Windows Autopatch: Scheduled Install and Restart Not Restarting
Howdy folks – I’ve got a discussion topic for today that I want to write about, mostly to save your sanity where I lost mine. That topic being the “Scheduled Install and restart” option in Windows Autopatch. Outline: My History: I want to be very clear right off the bat that this is a topic…
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Everything I Know on Subscription Activation
Overview: Over the past few years, I have had to write far too many blogs on or surrounding the topic of Subscription Activation. Fixed – Enterprise Subscription Activation Broken by KB5036893 & KB5036892Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 1Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 2Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing…
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Technical Deep-Dive on the Workplace Un-Joined Solution (Work and School account Removal)
Introduction: This article pairs with my Everything I Know on Subscription Activation article as is to cover the technical deep dive over how I created the Work or School account detection and removal scripts as part of the “Workplace Un-joined” project. I figured this in-depth information likely didn’t need to go right into the master…
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Building Golden Images for Hyper-V Lab Testing
Hyper-V is a wonderful thing, as I really don’t like having 16 laptops and chargers around me to perform testing on. No, I much prefer creating a VM, using checkpoints, blowing them up, and recreating them or reverting them as needed. For a long time, I had a simple process to create Golden Images for…
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Edge SSO, Work or School Accounts, and Subscription Activation (Enterprise OS)
How We Got Here: Sigh. Enterprise Activation is a topic I have now spent the past year writing about…April 2024, Enterprise Activation Broken by Windows Update.Retired article: September 2024, Work or School Accounts Break Enterprise Activation Part 1Retired article: November 2024, Work or School Accounts Break Enterprise Activation Part 2Retired article: December 2024, Work or…
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Enterprise Only Windows Policies
The History: You have no idea how much joy it brings me to be able to write this article. For years I have been deeply annoyed by the fact that Microsoft used to have a wonderful piece of documentation covering what polices could only be applied to an enterprise edition of Windows. You can still…
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MMS MOA 2025
Howdy folks, I figured I’d stick something out there to announce I’d be at MMS MOA 2025. Feel free to chat if you see me, or reach out on Discord (AzureToTheMax) to find me. This is my first MMS, things just haven’t lined up in prior years. I’ve actually submitted to be a speaker before,…
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Automating Reboot Maintenance Using Intune Proactive Remediations
Intro: One of the age-old issues we in IT face is the employee who thinks rebooting their machine is a quarterly process, or at most a monthly process forced by Windows Updates. As we all know, lengthy up times have a tendency to create system instability and sluggishness, prevent application updates from processing (because much…
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Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 4
This Article Has Been Retired! Warning: I have chosen to “retire” this article. As time has marched on, and more information has been revealed, the blogs in this series have slowly become less and less up-to-date, and frankly, more and more of the information I was told as gospel has proved flawed or muddied. As…
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Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 3
This Article Has Been Retired! Warning: I have chosen to “retire” this article. As time has marched on, and more information has been revealed, the blogs in this series have slowly become less and less up-to-date, and frankly, more and more of the information I was told as gospel has proved flawed or muddied. As…
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