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Build your own Windows 365 request approval flow

Peter Klapwijk — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:28:10 +0000

Today, I share a blog post on creating an approval flow to process user requests for a Windows 365 cloud PC. Such a flow allows an end-user to request a cloud PC, after which the user’s manager needs to approve or deny the request. When the request is approved, the cloud PC is automatically provisioned. [...]

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Build your own user onboarding automation: Send a notification when Windows 365 provisioning is finished

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:51:26 +0000

Today, I’m sharing another blog post that’s somewhat related to user onboarding automation. This time I’m sharing how we can automatically build an automation flow to inform our users when their Windows 365 cloud PC finished provisioning and is ready for sign-in. This prevents the user from manually checking if the cloud PC is ready, [...]

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Automatically configure the time zone (during Autopilot enrollment)

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:00 +0000

New Windows devices usually come out of the box with the time zone configured to Pacific Time. Great for people who live in that time zone, but I assume most of the people live in another time zone, like me and all the users of my employer. Thus, when we started our investigation into moving [...]

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Build your own user onboarding automation – Day 1: enable the account and create a Temporary Access Pass

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:25:53 +0000

Recently I shared this blog post about creating a low-code automation solution to easily create users in Entra ID. This is the follow-up blog post in the user onboarding automation series. This second automation flow enables the user account of users that have a hire date of today. Besides that a Temporary Access Pass is created [...]

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Build your own user onboarding automation – Entra ID user account creation

Peter Klapwijk — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:18:31 +0000

In one of the latest blog posts, I shared how we can create a red button automation solution to take action when a user account is compromised. Today we’re going to build our own user onboarding automation with the low-code solution Azure Logic Apps. This is the first part of a user onboarding automation series [...]

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Revoke user access in case of an emergency with a single click – on-premises AD integration

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Today I will show you how to revoke user access for an Active Directory user account in an automated way. This is a follow-up post to the initial blog post in which I described how to build automation to revoke user access in a single click. For example in case of employee termination or when [...]

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Revoke user access in case of an emergency with a single click

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:25:00 +0000

I’ve seen several online discussions about the steps which need to be taken in case of a ‘red button’ action, for example when a user account is compromised or employee termination. Of course, it differs depending on the environment which actions need to be taken to block access to corporate data as soon as possible [...]

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Automatically register Windows corporate device identifiers for Autopilot device preparation

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:14:03 +0000

Today is a blog post about Windows Autopilot device preparation and registering the Windows corporate device identifiers. Many companies these days use Microsoft’s Windows Autopilot solution to enroll their corporate devices in Microsoft Intune. For this solution we need to register the devices by uploading the hardware hash to the Autopilot service. The big OEMs [...]

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Update Microsoft Edge during Windows Autopilot enrollments

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Have you noticed that even the latest Windows 11 images are still shipped with Microsoft Edge version 92? An Edge release from June 2021!? Ridiculous if you ask me the Windows team doesn’t regularly update the version that they ship with Windows. As you can see below in the OOBE of a recent Windows 11 [...]

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Get notifications of missing devices in Windows Update for Business reports

Peter Klapwijk — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:05:00 +0000

Microsoft recently added a new feature to their Windows Update for Business reports as announced in this Tech Community article. The data of these reports now show data of devices that are missing from the Windows Update reports. That’s interesting information to understand which devices are missing from the report and need your attention. It [...]

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