Windows 11 Kiosk Configuration Warning: Don't Use Intune's "Kiosk" Template
Intune's built-in "Kiosk" template can fail on Windows 11, so use a custom OMA-URI configuration profile instead.
Masahiko Ebisuda
Microsoft MVP 2014 to present. I design AI agents and automation systems that run my work and life — and write about the thinking behind each one.
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Windows Device Recovery Now Has Four New Options — But They're All in Different States of Readiness
Windows now offers four new device recovery tools, but each ships with a different availability status, default setting, and level of readiness for production use.
Even the #1 Model on AI Arena Won't Run at Home — Choosing Models You Can Actually Try on a DGX Spark
Arena rankings, model-card sizes, and nine real benchmark runs on a DGX Spark reveal which local models are actually worth installing.
The Audit Flags Over 1,000 "Problems" Every Week. Is the Wiki Broken, or Is the Audit?
A four-month blind trust in a weekly Wiki quality report turned out to be trust in a broken audit, not a broken Wiki.
Don't Let the AI That Wrote It Review It ── Building Second Opinions Into the System
Why code review needs a second, independent AI — and what happened when mine went down for five days.
[Action Required] Exchange Online's EWS Retirement Will Break Calendar and Free/Busy Sharing With Other Organizations (MC1446796)
If your tenant doesn't act, cross-organization calendar sharing stops on October 1 when Exchange Online retires EWS.
From the Japanese Tech Scene: AI Watermarks, Vuln Overload, and More
Six stories Japanese engineers are reading this week — from a homegrown AI terminal to what Claude's new watermark actually does under the hood
The "Big Three" Aren't Three Anymore: Grok 4.6 Returns to the Frontier, and Google Is the One Missing a Seat
Grok 4.6's leap back to the AI frontier exposes a reshuffled power map — one where Google, not the newcomer, is the one missing a seat.
Entra ID's "Resource URL": A Name, Not a Network Address
Why that `https://...` string in your Power Platform connector config isn't something you can browse to — and how it differs from the endpoint you actually call.
I Asked the Same Question to 7 Local LLMs — Speed and Intelligence Didn't Line Up: DGX Spark Benchmarks
Real-world benchmarks on an NVIDIA DGX Spark show that the fastest local LLM isn't always the safest or most complete answer.
From Discord-Only to Teams: Introducing Ebi Agent Chat Relay v4
A queue-based split between a public Teams receiver and a private agent host brings Claude Code, Codex, and AG-UI to Microsoft Teams without exposing the agent environment.
My Pixel Wouldn't Ring. Before You Brute-Force Every Setting, There's One Question You Need to Ask First
A missed-call mystery on a Rakuten Mobile Pixel reveals why "it won't ring" can actually mean three completely different failures.
When I Narrowed My Human Inputs Down to Just Todoist and Discord, the System Started Running Itself
How limiting my own touchpoints to two apps forced everything else onto AI and automation — and what broke along the way.