Category: General
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I’m Surrounded by a Bunch of Device Objects: Cleaning House in the Cloud Without Burning Everything Down
It’s 4:30 PM on a Friday. You’re trying to deploy a critical new Device config policy to a specific laptop, but when you type the hostname into the search bar to add the device to an Entra ID group, Microsoft Entra ID spits back three identical objects. Two are stale, one is active, and they…
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Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM Part – 3 Upgrading Hardware and adding TPM
The last piece of the puzzle is often upgrading the VM. Before you can add a vTPM, your environment needs to meet a few prerequisites: For the purpose of this guide, we’ll assume that you already have vCenter Server 6.7+ deployed and that virtual machine encryption and KMS are configured in your environment. These initial…
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In the Beginning
Hello and welcome! If you’re navigating the ever-evolving landscape of endpoint management, from Intune and SCCM to Azure and Entra ID, you’ve found a resource to add to your tool belt. My name is Nathan (Nate) Lockwood, and for over 28 years, I’ve been building, deploying, and optimizing Windows environments. My journey started back in…