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Cloud Managed Desktop: Provisioning Package + AutoPilot

Cloud Managed Desktop: Provisioning Package + AutoPilot

As we look at the new Modern Management paradigm, leveraging Azure Active Directory and Intune to manage Windows 10 devices on the go, one of the challenges is onboarding the device in a simple and convenient way.  With Windows AutoPilot, we can input device-specific information from the manufacturer ahead of time and apply a configuration profile to those machines.  The result is a more customized and branded OOBE wizard…but there are still some things that we may want to do…

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Quick Look at SCCM TP1612 Task Sequence Wizard ‘Previous’ Button

Quick Look at SCCM TP1612 Task Sequence Wizard ‘Previous’ Button

Anyone who has worked with SCCM OS deployment for the last several years is thrilled with an early Christmas present this year: the Task Sequence wizard finally has a Back button (ok, it’s actually “Previous” but you get the point)!!  I personally cannot count how many times I’ve PXE booted a machine and entered the TS wizard password only to see an error stating that no policy was found for the computer…or selected a Task Sequence only to receive an…

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MMS 2016 User Personality Management–Application Mapping

MMS 2016 User Personality Management–Application Mapping

With the amount of content covered in today’s MMS 2016 session on User Personality Management, we didn’t get a chance to do a deeper dive into the application mapping and User Device Affinity installation methods in the Task Sequence.  Let’s start with the application mapping feature. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) has included Package Mapping capabilities for legacy Packages for several years, but the product was not updated to also include an equivalent capability for the new Application model introduced in…

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