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Autopilot used to mean one thing. Grab the hardware hash, upload it, build a profile, and watch the Enrollment Status Page crawl. Now there is a second Autopilot, and Microsoft calls it a re-architecture. Autopilot device preparation skips the hardware hash and the Enrollment Status Page, but it also skips a few things you might be counting on.
...A laptop left in a cab is an embarrassing day. An unencrypted laptop left in a cab is a breach notification. An Intune BitLocker policy encrypts every Windows drive without asking the user anything, stores the recovery key where the helpdesk can find it, and tells you which machines are not encrypted yet.
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The ticket said "email is fine, we just need Autodiscover to stop popping a certificate warning." Two hours later I was in ADSI Edit staring at a full Exchange organization for a server that had not existed since 2019. The previous admin had done the thing that feels productive at 4:45 on a Friday. They shut the VM down, deleted it from the host, re...
Certificate-based Wi-Fi is the right way to keep strangers off the network. Getting there used to mean an on-premises certificate server, an NDES server, the Intune certificate connector, and a long weekend. Intune Cloud PKI gives you the certificate authority from the cloud, so devices get their certificates without any of those servers.
What...A setting changes on a laptop, and nobody on the helpdesk can say whether SCCM or Intune did it. Intune co-management lets Configuration Manager and Intune manage the same Windows PCs at the same time. Each job, called a workload, belongs to exactly one of them.
What co-management isYou decide which workloads move to Intune, and Configu...