In this blog post, I will explore the concept of Windows 365 Frontline. Windows 365 Frontline became generally available (GA) in July 2023, and it should not be confused with the Microsoft 365 F1 or F3 licenses. Windows 365 Enterprise For organizations that want to manage Cloud PCs through Microsoft
It’s been almost a year since I published my original post about how to migrate BitLocker Recovery Key(s) to Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID) using a remediation script. It didn’t take long before several companies started using it, and since then, I’ve received a few inquiries about support for multiple
Until recently, you had to reprovision existing Windows 365 Cloud PCs if you changed the Azure region of the Microsoft Hosted Network or the Azure Network Connection (ANC) in your provisioning policy – only new Cloud PCs would honor these changes! But this has changed with the recent Service Release
Welcome to Part 4 in this new Windows 365 End-User Experience blog series. This series will be an educational journey exploring several features that can potentially help improve the end-user experience. Below you’ll find all parts of this blog series. In this part, I‘ll cover the following topics. The Windows
Welcome to Part 3 in this new Windows 365 End-User Experience blog series. This series will be an educational journey exploring several features that can potentially help improve the end-user experience. Below you’ll find all parts of this blog series. In this part, I’ll cover the following topics. Multimedia Redirection
Welcome to Part 2 in this new Windows 365 End-User Experience blog series. This series will be an educational journey exploring several features that can potentially help improve the end-user experience. Below you’ll find all parts of this blog series. In this part, I’ll cover the following topics. Microsoft Teams
Welcome to Part 1 in this new Windows 365 End-User Experience blog series. This series will be an educational journey exploring several features that can potentially help improve the end-user experience. Below you’ll find all parts of this blog series. In this part, I’ll cover the following topics. Introduction What
In September 2022, Microsoft announced the public preview of single sign-on (SSO) and passwordless authentication for Azure Virtual Desktop. – Since then, many of us have been waiting for Windows 365 Azure AD Join SSO support. The wait is finally over because Microsoft has recently announced that Windows 365 now
Are you also in the middle of transitioning from on-premises to the cloud, or are you currently planning this journey? If so, you also want a modern way to migrate Bitlocker recovery key(s) to Azure AD when moving away from on-premises MBAM/Active Directory escrowing. I help our customers achieve this
When we use Windows Hello for Business and a user forgets the PIN, it can be reset directly from the sign-in page. By default, this will be a destructive PIN reset, the existing PIN, and underlying credentials, including any keys or certificates added to their Windows Hello container, will be
In this blog post, we’ll explore Windows Autopatch, which became generally available (GA) in July 2022 for customers with Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 (or higher) at no additional costs. Because this new Microsoft cloud service supports Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PCs, it got my full attention and curiosity about the
We have a lot of customers who use Windows Hello for Business Azure AD joined Key trust. But now that Windows Hello for Business cloud trust is available (preview), we expect to see a move towards Cloud Trust, maybe this could also be interesting for your setup? Key trust is
Provide the end-users with a localized Windows 365 Cloud PC experience. Introduction A few months back, I wrote a post about localizing a custom image for Windows 365 Cloud PCs. Back then, the Windows 365 Cloud PCs were only provisioned in English (United States). – Microsoft has since then made
Migrate imported GPOs to Intune with Group Policy analytics (preview) Introduction In our previous blog post, where I wrote about exporting GPOs from Group Policy management on-prem using PowerShell and doing a proper cleanup with Microsoft Graph, I promised you an article about the new migration option within Group Policy
Introduction I have a customer that currently uses Configuration Manager to manage their devices. They have a wish to remove Configuration Manager and go to cloud only management. In this regards they have a lot of GPOs we will need to analyze in order to move to production and fully
Secure your Windows 365 Cloud PC(s) with Conditional Access and FIDO2 security keys. Introduction We have already written about FIDO2 security keys on several occasions (I will add the links below), which has inspired me to see how I could secure Windows 365 using Conditional Access and a FIDO2
Learn how to rerun failed win32 apps on a device In this video we will cover some good tips how to troubleshoot on Win32 apps. Have you ever had a failing app? If not, then this blog is not for you, but if you have, go and check it
Prevent sensitive information from being captured on Cloud PCs with screen capture protection. Introduction In this blog post I will show you how to enable a feature called “Screen Capture Protection” which will prevent sensitive information from being captured on your Windows 365 Cloud PC(s), intentionally or by malicious software.
Managing local administrator rights on Windows 365 Cloud PCs. Introduction I’ve been writing about Windows 365 over the past few months, and in the original Windows 365 blog post I quickly mentioned that users by default doesn’t have local admin rights on their Cloud PC(s), and how to grant users
A Cloud PC (Windows 365) with Windows 11 on my son’s iPad and some hot chocolate – What’s not to like? Introduction A few months back I wrote a blog post about how to configure Windows 365 Enterprise in Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which was released with Windows 10. But now
In this video I will show you the process how to go from Windows 10 to Windows 11 using Microsoft Intune. Your managed devices will NOT upgrade automatically and as for that, you will need to create a feature update policy to actually force the upgrade. Before you can utilize
Connected to my Windows 365 Cloud PC from my son’s iPad ATTENTION: Microsoft has paused their free Windows 365 trial program while they provision additional capacity! Sign up to learn more about Windows 365 Introduction In this blog post we’ll take a first look at Windows 365 Enterprise and
Introduction With the expedited updates feature in Microsoft Endpoint you can deploy updates like the most recent patch Tuesday release or out-of-band security updates. For example, we just saw a flaw with the windows print spooler where the attacker could execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a non-patch system.
Introduction In this blog post I will be looking at Group Policy Analytics (preview) in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Organizations have been using group policy objects (GPOs) for decades to configure user and computer settings on devices in their environment. But in these modern days, where many organizations are embracing cloud
Introduction Some time ago I was asked by FEITIAN if I would like to test their FIDO2 key. I said yes, because I am in a project where we will onboard Microsoft HoloLens’s in production, in that journey, we will make use of FIDO2 keys + Windows Hello for Business
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