The following unknown device IDs will pop-up when you run the script or when you open Device Manager: ROOT\VMBUS\0000 ROOT\VID\0000 ROOT\VPCIVSP\0000 ROOT\STORVSP\0000 ROOT\SYNTH3DVSP\0000 If you want to find all Unknown Devices, open PowerShell as an Administrator and run: Get-WmiObject Win32_PNPEntity | Where-Object { $_.ConfigManagerErrorCode -ne 0} | Select DeviceID On my work notebook, all drivers were correctly populated so it had to be something with my test laptop. It’s a fresh Windows 10 machine deployed by a Task Sequence - enabled with Device Guard and Credential Guard. ...

Recently I was trying to apply a lock screen image with a GPO. I distributed the image to the C:/Windows/Web/Wallpaper directory and configured the Windows 10 GPO to that location. After running the Windows 10 Task Sequence successfully, the default lock screen image came up. I was using a large image from the client so that it still looks good on bigger screens. I’ve found out that after resizing the image back to 1080P, the image was applied successfully after locking the machine. ...

Recently Microsoft introduced Windows Autopilot. This is a feature where you can register your corporate devices and where users can use their internet connection to sign in with their Azure AD credentials. The device is automatically enrolled with MDM like Intune and will receive apps and policies from there. According to Microsoft’s recent blog post and instruction video, a user needs to insert their WiFi password as the device will get the configuration from MDM and is already enrolled, without having the option to change the MDM provider or enroll the device as a personal device. ...

Today I found out that Azure AD Domain Services is available from the new Azure Portal! The documentation is still based on using the old portal. Now you can finally use Azure Resource Manager for the VNET and deployment. Creating your first Azure AD Domain Services instance will take quite some time but is really easy to configure. Specify the DNS name of the domain, a resource group, a VNET with subnet and a subscription and you’re good to go. Enjoy this feature in the new Portal! ...

Last Tuesday Avanade announced the new Avanade Azure Stack Solution. Avanade delivers this solution from client site, at remote locations or hosted in Avanade’s own datacenters. Azure Stack is an extension of Azure to on-premises locations. People tend to forget that Azure Stack is not just a replacement of your physical servers running a hypervisor like Hyper-V. It’s a true hybrid cloud solution. You get features like Disaster Recovery with instant fail-over, Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities, Load Balancing, the new Portal experience and so on. I’m really excited to tell you more about this great solution. ...

Would you buy a new television when only the CPU is slightly faster, but the screen quality is worse? Would you buy a new phone, when it’s only slightly faster than the old model? Well, that’s the position I’m currently in. Last year I wanted to buy a new iPad. I was looking for an iPad around the iPad Air 2 price range. It’s just for home-use like Netflix, Spotify and HomeKit, so I’m absolutely not a Pro user. I didn’t want to buy a device that was released 2 years ago. ...

As I told you before in my previous blog post, I was asked to build an interactive PowerShell script for creating Virtual Machines in Azure. In this blog post, I want to show you how I’ve created a report (or array) within PowerShell that: Visualize the to-be-created objects to the user Allows PowerShell to get the data of that array to create Virtual Machines. This makes sure that you have a consistent view of what PowerShell will create for you. See it as an order overview before you buy something online. Let’s imagine I have all the Virtual Machines that I want to create in $VMs. This can be an import of a CSV, or maybe I’ve asked the user for details with “Read-Host” or Out-GridView. ...

Last week I was asked to build an interactive PowerShell script for creating Virtual Machines in Azure. In this blog post, I want to share an easy way to prompt a user for a selection. # Select Azure subscription $AzureSubscription = (Get-AzureRmSubscription | Out-GridView -Title "Choose your Azure subscription and click OK." -PassThru) Write-Output "Switching to Azure subscription: $($AzureSubscription.Name)" $AzureSubscriptionInfo = Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId $AzureSubscription.Id This uses Out-GridView to display the contents of the “Get-AzureRmSubscription” Cmdlet and asks the user to make a selection. The user is able to sort and filter the contents within the grid and the user will be informed of the decision by using “Write-Output”. ...

The underfloor heating and cooling system of my apartment is managed by a WTH thermostat. Last week had temperatures of 30+ °C, which is why I wanted to switch from heating to cooling the floor of my apartment. Somehow the instructions in the manual didn’t work for me and ended up with error code A2.2. Of course - an error code that’s not described in the manual. Below is an image of the WTH D9380 rF-t thermostat I have. ...

Cause Recently I replaced my workstation and that was a perfect time to rebuild my home lab. After I got green lights from my employer to install the all new Windows 10 Creators Update, I also installed Hyper-V and started to build servers in my lab. I was playing around with Shielding, Virtual TPM and SecureBoot until I found out that RemoteFX didn’t work anymore. I added the RemoteFX adapter to a VM with shielding enabled, but saw in the Hyper-V Settings menu that “0 virtual machines are currently using this GPU”. I first thought about updating my drivers, but I realized that I was playing around with some new features. ...