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Windows Server 2016 – ADFS 4.0 now support certificate authentication on port 443

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You may already know that ADFS 3.0 (on Windows Server 2012 R2) already supports certificate authentication BUT using a different communication port than 443 (in fact 49443). With ADFS 4.0 (on Windows Server 2016), the certificate authentication can now use the 443 communication port, making thing easier to implement multi factor authentication using user certificate. […]

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Windows 10 – BitLocker Recovery Key for Azure AD Joined devices

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This procedure applies only for Windows 10 devices which have been configured as Azure AD Joined. From time to time, you may need to access advanced recovery options for your Windows 10 device but these options may failed to work because you are using BitLocker to encrypt your drive. You may already know the procedure

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System Center Configuration Manager – Integrate your Windows Store for Business

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The latest update for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 (build 5.00.8412.1000 – released on August 2nd, 2016) has added the ability to integrate your Corporate Windows Store into SCCM. The ability to deploy Universal Apps using SCCM has been introduced some time ago but you were obliged to use the Offline Licensing and create

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Microsoft Azure – Enterprise State Roaming in public preview

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As you may already know, since Windows 8.x, user settings can synch to OneDrive (consumer) allowing end-users to sync their settings and universal apps data across different devices when they logon with their Microsoft account. Now, this settings is also available in public preview for enterprise users using Windows 10 (at least build 10586) and

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Windows Mobile – A new build of the Windows Mobile 10 is now available

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A new build (10.0.10586.29) of Windows Mobile 10 has been released and is now available through Windows Update As part of the improvements: You will see additional improvements in upgrade experience, including devices with limited free space, map rendering on update, and RCS enabled device settings. Improved application backwards compatibility for Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight

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Windows 10 – Black Screen on startup Part 2

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Some days ago, I made a post about getting black screen on startup with Windows 10 and I was saying I may have found this was due to the Graphics Tools feature (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2015/09/14/windows-10-black-screen-after-starting/) Today, I made new discovery. In fact, it seems it has nothing to do with the Windows features but with the

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Windows 10 – Black screen after starting

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UPDATE – September 24th – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2015/09/25/windows-10-black-screen-on-startup-part-2/ Since last September 11th, I have been running into a major issue with Windows 10. No matter what, always got black screen after startup. I tried all recovery methods – including what was found on the internet and which was mostly related to the preview builds. The only

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Windows 10 – Remote Desktop Client Logon attempt failed

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Since the upgrade to Windows 10 RTM (and even with the new 10525 build for Fast update users), the remote desktop client keeps using MicrosoftAccount as domain when you use UPN format to logon (user@domain) – as you can see in the screenshot below So off course, you always get The logon attempt failed error,

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