Windows 10

Enable windows hello login with camera on Windows 10 Intune joined machines

Symptom:

If you have a Windows 10 machine with a camera that supports Windows hello login you might see that Windows Hello is disabled by administrator.

This is becasue of the Intune Policy in Microsoft Intune.

Implications:

Note, that if you want to enable Windows Hello you will also force the user that uses Azure AD join to enroll with a pin, adding an extra step to the Azure AD join process.

Steps:

Navigate to https://portal.azure.com and log in with admin credentials and select Intune.

Select then Device enrollment.

Select then Windows Enrollment

You should then see Windows Hello for Business, click it.

You may create several policies based on Groups. However there should be a default policy that is assigned to everyone.

I had the policy disabled. Now click enable.

You do not need to change any settings, just Ensure that you allow biometric auth. Then remember to click “Save”

That is it. On a Windows 10 Device you can update the policies or log off/on/restart to recieve this new policy.

You can also force this policy Down on the Device by syncronizing it:

December 24, 2017 6

Windows 10 Education devices benchmark with Novabench and AS SSD

Here is a comparison chart between a range of Windows 10 Based Education devices.

All devices are running Windows 10 1607.
They have recently been wiped and waited for windows update to remove all flags in device management
Running on battery with more than 60% charge
Devices are joined to Intune from OOBE
Tests ran 3 times on each device (score is had minor deviations)

The devices range from Pentium to Celeron CPU and from 64 gig to 256 gig SSD. Ram is 4 gig. The results on each device differ marginally each time i run the benchmarking tool.

These devices are all really cheap and start at 1800 NOK before VAT.

Chart (In progress*):

	HP X360	Lenovo N23	Acer B1 Spin	Lenovo Yoga 11E	HP Stream 11	Dell Latitude 3189
AS SSD Score	180			1607	153	673
Novabench Score	370			479	333	534
Max price NOK incl. VAT	4081	4081	3500	Not agreed	2500	Not agreed
Specs	Intel Celeron – 4/64	Intel Celeron 4/64	Intel Celeron 4/64	Intel Celeron N3450 – 4/128	Intel Celeron N3060 – 4/64	Intel Pentium N4200 – 4/128

What can you learn from this chart? There are difference performance, so having an opinion of what is good enough can save you some extra money when selecting a device. Will the user notice a difference, mabye… or mabye not.

Just keep in mind that a student does not need a super fast disk to write essay’s in word. But he will appreciate the extra power of a better CPU when having a Skype call and editing power point at the same time.

My opinion is that disk speed is the most important aspect of the devices. Even Celeron is good enough.

Here are the individual images from each test:

HP X360

Lenovo Yoga 11E

HP Stream 11

Dell Latitude 3189

Acer B118 Spin

Lenovo N23

August 10, 2017 0

Surface Pro 4 Windows 10 Education Edition Intune Enrollment

Here is a video of how long time it takes to unbox, clean and setup a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 Education and enroll it into Intune.

To enter Surface UEFI press pwr on and hold volume up. Release pwr button once you see the device turns on. Keep holding the volume up untill you se the UEFI.

Please keep in mind that these test are real life and include some lag typing in email and passwords plus some clicking. This would be a realistic scenario. This even Includes MFA on enrollment.

Here is a summary of the times:

Wipe drive and clean to OOBE – 16 min 57 sec
OOBE to Windows – 2 mins 34 sec

Tech specs:

8Gig Ram
256 Gig SSD
Intel Pentium I5
Windows 10 Education 1607
Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (WICD)

Here are the configurations in WICD:

Here is the complete video:

Clean install with WICD

OOBE to Windows

Other tests on EDU devices:

HP X360 Education Edition

Lenovo N23 Education Edition

Acer B118 Spin Education Edition

April 10, 2017 0

Acer B118 Spin Education Edition Intune Enrollment

Here is a video of how long time it takes to unbox and setup a Acer B1 Spin with Windows 10 Education and enroll it into Intune.

To enter Acer UEFI press F2 – Here you can enable the F12 Boot menu which is disabled by default.

Here is a summary of the times:

Wipe drive and clean to OOBE – 22 min 52 sec
OOBE to Windows – 3 mins 31 sec
Switch user – 46 sec

Tech specs:

4 Gig Ram
64 Gig SSD
Intel Celeron 1,4 GHZ
Windows 10 Education 1607
Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (WICD)

Here are the configurations in WICD:

Here is the complete video:

Clean install with WICD

OOBE to Windows

New user switch

Other tests on EDU devices:

HP X360 Education Edition

Lenovo N23 Education Edition

April 7, 2017 0

Lenovo N23 Education Edition Intune Enrollment

Here is a video of how long time it takes to unbox and setup a Lenovo N23 Education Edition with Windows 10 Education and enroll it into Intune.

To access the UEFI Boot menu Press F12 during boot

Here is a summary of the times:

Wipe drive and clean to OOBE – 26 mins 21sec
OOBE to Windows – 4 mins 46 sec
Switch to a new user (first time logon) – 56 sec

Tech specs:

4 Gig Ram
64 Gig SSD
Intel Celeron 1,4 GHZ
Windows 10 Education 1607
Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (WICD)

Here are the configurations in WICD:

Here is the videos:

Clean install

Intune Enrollment

New user switch

Other tests on EDU devices:

HP X360 Education Edition

Acer B118 Spin

April 6, 2017 0

HP X360 Education Edition Intune Enrollment

Here is a video of how long time it takes to unbox and setup a HP X360 ProBook G1 EE with Windows 10 Education and enroll it into Intune. You do not have to clean this device. It comes with a clean Win 10 Pro EDU image and is ready for the classroom.

If you have to clean the device using WICD/USB then Boot selection / Boot menu is the F9 key

HP ProBook X360 G1 Education Edition UEFI / BIOS menu is the Esc key.

Here is a summary of the times:

Wipe drive and clean to OOBE – 21 mins 21 sec
OOBE to Windows – 4 mins 7 sec
Switch to a new user – 34 sec

Tech specs:

4 Gig Ram
128 Gig SSD
Intel Pentium 1,4 GHZ
Windows 10 Education 1607
Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (WICD)

Here are the configurations in WICD:

Here is the videos:

Clean install

Intune Enrollment

New user switch

Other tests on EDU devices:

Acer Switch B1

Lenovo N23

April 6, 2017 0

Boot from USB HP X360 ProBook 11 G1 EE

If you have the new HP X360 Education Edition and want to clean the the disk and reinstall to Windows 10 Education this is what you need to do.

Create a Bootable USB stick that supports UEFI
1. Using CMD and Diskpart
2. Using WICD

WICD is blazing fast, you can do a clean install in about 15 mins

During startup of your device press ESC to enter UEFI, then select F9 for boot options. Use the arrow key and select your USB drive. Press enter to boot from USB.

Thats it 🙂

April 4, 2017 0

How to get Minecraft Education Edition Trial

If you want to get Minecraft Education Edition Trial this is what you need to do:

Note, this solution is for the free 25 licenses trial and does not use windows store for business for deployment

First make sure you have this:

Office 365 Education Account
User with Office 365 Education Faculty License Assigned

Download Minecraft EE here: http://education.minecraft.net/get-started/download/

Save the Zip file and right click on the “InstallMInecraftEducationEdition” and select “Run as Administrator”

This will happen:

Start Minecraft:

Now you have 25 test licenses to showcase Minecraft Education Edition:

Go ahead and set up your world to play.

First time playing? Download a tutorial world here:

https://education.minecraft.net/worlds/tutorial-world/

January 3, 2017 0

Benchmark for SanDisk Ultra 2 mSATA SSD

I bought a brand new SanDisk Ultra® II mSATA SSD for my PCI-e mSATA adapter. Did it to get more space for games. A 256GB Wave chip was replaced with a 512GB chip.

I did a benchmark with AS SSD Benchmark tool version 1.9. Here is the result:

Note that this score is less than the Wave 256GB chip that was really cheap.

November 14, 2016 0

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Lenovo Yoga 11E

HP Stream 11

Dell Latitude 3189

Acer B118 Spin

Lenovo N23

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