Recently I’ve ran into the situation where an SCCM (MECM) device needed to be migrated to Intune and the rule was that for AutoPilot to work the device must have: Bios Password Wiped Secure Boot enabled Recovery Partition enabled Factory reset to OOBE The Out of The Box Experience then […]
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Are you running your installation/uninstallation from System Context (NT Authority\System) and want to delete user registry? You can do that by parsing all the users in HKEY_USERS key. Under HKEY_USERS you will find user IDs starting with S-1-5-21. We need to search under all keys which are starting with S-1-5-21 […]
WSL is out of preview and it’s now available on Microsoft Store for both Windows 10 and Windows 11 users. This version is now the default experience for new users and those who upgrade. Also, Systemd support is now available in WSL. With the simple command of: wsl –install It […]
Be aware for latest patch day releases as they might break some functionality that you currently have in your infrastructure. October patch day KB KB5020276 breaks the domain join. There is a valid workaround but it introduces the CVE-2022-38042 so take proper approvals from security before applying it into your […]
User preferences are very important nowadays and if you have a shortcut or want to open an URL for the user you might as well check what is the preferred browser that he uses. This information can be easily found in: HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\https\UserChoice And from this information you can easily create […]
I am proud to announce that the free MSI Application Packaging Book is now up on Udemy! What you will learn: What is Windows Installer and what are the tools to use for application packaging? What is the structure of a Windows Installer package? Practical scenarios on “How to create […]
The Quick Assist tool came in the past as a default executable which was located into the system32 folder of Windows. Starting with Windows 10 21H2, Microsoft decided to move Quick Assist into the Microsoft Store. The first issue we see is that Quick Assist was only placed in system32 […]
After I have did a small test lab for Azure Virtual Desktop, it was time to play a little bit with MSIX App Attach functionality that Azure offers. However, after my virtual machine was created, when I went into the host pool to add an MSIX package, the following error […]
If you work with SCCM you are probably used to create machine/user collections for different purposes, either for assigning apps, either to perform a task sequence and so on. The only issue with this might be the way you get your user/machine list to do these queries. Sometimes you might […]
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Because of the workload and limited time to post on my personal blog, I’ve decided to do small little posts like this when I talk about different challenges that I personally, or some other colleagues in the industry faced during their working days. Today I want to have a look […]