Real-world guides, troubleshooting and deployment solutions for Intune, ConfigMgr, Windows and Endpoint Management.
Federated credentials to Azure are supposed to be the easy, secure way to do CI/CD. They are — right up until the subject claim doesn’t match any documentation, and az role assignment create …
I built a RealmJoin-style provisioning screen for Autopilot devices from scratch. Here’s what actually broke, and why almost none of it showed up until I tested on a real machine.
Federated credentials to Azure are supposed to be the easy, secure way to do CI/CD. They are — right up until the subject claim doesn’t match any …
I built a RealmJoin-style provisioning screen for Autopilot devices from scratch. Here’s what actually broke, and why almost none of it showed up until I …
Oryx’s build container is too old for the Hugo version it downloads. The fix: build Hugo on the GitHub runner yourself and tell Azure to just upload the …
I'm a UK-based Microsoft Endpoint Management Engineer with 25+ years designing, deploying and supporting Windows devices in enterprise environments — these days mostly Intune, ConfigMgr and Windows Autopilot.
Off the clock I'm in Liverpool — widowed dad of five, though they're all grown now (26 to 42), so the house is a lot quieter than it used to be. Spare time these days mostly goes into World of Warcraft, playing Alliance Protection Paladin (yes, I tank), or slowly expanding an Ultramarines army that never quite finishes painting itself. Don't ask me about football, I've got no idea who's doing well; ask me about Intune instead and I probably won't stop talking.
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