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Configure Azure file shares for Entra joined Windows devices and cloud identities

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:16:52 +0000

Today, I share a blog post on how we can enable Kerberos authentication for cloud-only identities on Azure file shares. Azure file shares can come handy when a file share is needed from every location and working with a cloud managed device, but till a short while back we could only enable Kerberos authentication for [...]

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Hard drive and partitions are not shown while installing Windows

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:10:28 +0000

Today, I share a short post about an issue I recently faced when a customer wanted to perform a clean Windows 11 install on some HP ProBooks of different generations. The laptops where still running Windows 10 but they had a reason to perform a clean install using an image on USB. But while they [...]

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Intune compliance for Windows 365 Cloud PCs

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:01:48 +0000

Today we’re going to have a look at Intune compliance policies for Windows 365 Cloud PCs. Windows 365 Cloud PCs are just virtualized workplaces running a version of Windows, therefor we can and need to target Intune compliance policies to these devices. But because these are workplaces running on a virtualization platform, there are some [...]

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Deploy Microsoft Defender updates in deployment rings

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:44:44 +0000

Last week I shared in a blog post how we can easily create ring deployment groups in Entra ID. Today’s blog post describes how we can create different update policies to deploy updates for Microsoft Defender in a managed way. Keeping Microsoft Defender up to date is critical to keep our devices secure, but as [...]

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Update Windows Defender during Windows Autopilot enrollments

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 16 May 2025 15:18:18 +0000

Today a short post about a way to forcefully update Windows Defender Antimalware during our Windows Autopilot enrollments. When a Windows device is enrolled by an end-user the Windows Defender Antimalware version might be outdated. And because of that, sometimes even real-time protection is turned off. When Windows Update is running, the Antimalware version will [...]

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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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Application installation issues; Download pending

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:25:09 +0000

Today a short blog post about an issue we had with downloading and installing applications using the Company Portal app on our Windows devices. I hope that, in case you have the same problem, this post saves you some time in troubleshooting and solving the problem, as the fix turned out to be very simple. [...]

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Connect to Azure file shares with Microsoft Entra Private Access

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 24 May 2024 07:20:00 +0000

Some time ago, I wrote an article about replacing on-premises file shares with Azure file shares. A file share hosted on Azure storage that is available using Entra joined Windows devices. That solution comes with some limitations. Azure file share uses the SMB protocol. SMB uses firewall port 445 which is blocked by some ISPs. [...]

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Automatically deploy Windows drivers on Patch Tuesday

Peter Klapwijk — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:29:00 +0000

Today is a blog post about deploying drivers to our Windows devices using Microsoft Intune and Logic Apps. For some time, we have had the Windows Driver update management feature available in Microsoft Intune. This provides tooling to control when and which drivers are deployed to our Windows devices. We can build deployment rings for [...]

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Configure Azure file shares for Entra joined Windows devices and hybrid identities

Peter Klapwijk — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:03:00 +0000

You started your journey to a modern Windows workplace. Your (new) devices are Microsoft Entra joined and no longer joined to the on-premises Active Directory. However, some of your applications might still need a drive mapping to a file share on an on-prem server. This means your Entra joined devices still need a line of [...]

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