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Modern Windows Device Provisioning Internals: Part 1

Modern Windows Provisioning Internals – Part 1

December 12, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy Comments Off

Modern Windows provisioning isn’t a mystery — it’s a disciplined choreography, processes moving in sync to deliver a managed, corporate‑ready device. For IT Pros, this post traces the internals from power‑on UEFI boot to the first OOBE screen: process trees and parent/child chains, critical executables spinning up and terminating, service handoffs, registry details, and trust boundaries — revealing how orchestration turns complexity into a reliable, secure, repeatable journey for enterprise teams. And just to mention, this is only Part 1 with a Part 2 coming soon! [Read More]

Preparing for the Windows UEFI CA 2023 Update: Why Inventory is Your First Line of Defense

Preparing for the Secure Boot UEFI CA 2023 Update: Why Inventory is Your First Line of Defense

November 19, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy 4

Introduction The upcoming Windows Secure Boot UEFI CA 2023 certificate update is a critical security milestone for enterprises. This update strengthens Secure Boot by ensuring only trusted bootloaders and firmware components are allowed during the boot [Read More]

BTS - Certificate-based Wi-Fi authentication with Microsoft Intune and EAP-TLS

[BTS] – How Certificate-based Wi-Fi Profile from Intune Works?

November 12, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy Comments Off

Learn how Microsoft Intune simplifies WPA2-Enterprise Wi-Fi onboarding using EAP-TLS and certificate-based authentication. Explore the workflow, key components, and deployment best practices for secure enterprise connectivity. [Read More]

From OMA-DM to MMP-C: The Evolution of Modern Windows Management

October 29, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy Comments Off

Modern Windows management has undergone a significant transformation over the past decade. What was once considered cutting-edge—OMA-DM and MDM-based workflows—has now become legacy as enterprises demand greater scalability, resilience, and efficiency. The shift from an imperative model, where servers orchestrate every configuration step, to a declarative model powered by MMP-C and WinDC marks a new era in device management. This evolution reduces complexity, minimizes network chatter, and enables self-healing capabilities, making it ideal for large-scale environments. In this post, we explore why OMA-DM is now seen as traditional, how MMP-C redefines “modern,” and what this means for the future of Windows management. [Read More]

Diverging OS Build Numbers Due to Hotpatch: How to handle Intune Compliance for Windows Hotpatch

Diverging OS Build Numbers Due to Hotpatch: Avoiding False Non-Compliance in Windows 11 24H2 Devices

October 16, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy Comments Off

As Windows 11 25H2 is now GA released, most of the enterprise organizations would be on their way to rolling out Windows 11 24H2 to their managed fleet of Windows devices following the (n-1) trend for [Read More]

Windows 10 End of Life: A Tribute to a Decade of Digital Legacy

October 15, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy Comments Off

Explore the complete lifecycle of Windows 10 from launch to retirement. Discover its version history, end-of-support timeline, and legacy in enterprise and personal computing. [Read More]

Windows Hotpatch: Reboot-Free Security Updates for Windows 11 with Intune

October 11, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy 2

Discover how Windows Hotpatch helps IT admins deploy security updates without reboots. Learn how to implement Hotpatch using Microsoft Intune and improve system uptime and user productivity. [Read More]

Disable GenAI assistant in Adobe Acrobat with Intune

March 13, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy Comments Off

Generative AI is all over the headlines, and that’s not empty hype. In the past year, generative artificial intelligence has captured the world’s imagination. This powerful type of artificial intelligence (AI) can create new content based [Read More]

Easily switch Office update channel with Intune

March 6, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy Comments Off

This blog post is a follow-up to the recent post that I made on the Office Update channel topic. But in there, I talked about the change of the Office update channel due to Cloud Policy [Read More]

How to Blacklist/Whitelist Extensions in Chrome with Intune

March 5, 2025 Joymalya Basu Roy Comments Off

Chrome extensions are small software programs that customize and enhance the functionality of the Google Chrome browser. They can perform a variety of tasks, such as blocking ads, managing passwords, translating web pages, and integrating with [Read More]