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Connect to Entra-joined PC from Mac

You can use the Windows app to connect to an Entra-joined Windows device. If you’re reading this you have most likley hit a variety of errors with different combinations of settings such as: You may have tried things like disabling NLA, using azuread\username@domain.com, etc etc and they haven’t worked. Here’s what worked for me: You will get a modern auth prompt when connecting and you can do full MFA. Use the full UPN of the…

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The Case of the Missing PowerBI Credentials

I migrated a user from AWS Workspaces to AVD to improve performance on POwerBI queries. The migration did indeed significantly increase performance but it also introduced an odd issue: When opening the PowerBI Desktop file the Snowflake credentials store in the file “could not be decrypted.” Every. Time. This behavior was not seen on AWS. Most Googling on this topic talked about clearing caches and re-entering credentials but none of that worked. There was also…

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Intune Device Showing New User or Other User at Login

We have observed an occasional but chronic issue with our Intune enrolled laptops – From time to time a machine will boot to a screen requesting a password for “New User” or “Other User” without the option to switch to the enrolled user or enter their WHfB PIN. Rebooting the device does not help and none of the other login options work. Solution – Shut down (not reboot) the device while holding down the shift…

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