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slynlast Wednesday at 10:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Just had a system board replaced on a device in my org, Dell laptop.

As part of setting up a device in our org we enroll our device in Intune (Microsoft's cloud-based device management tool aka UEM / RMM / MDM / etc). To enroll your device you take a "hardware hash" which's basically TPM attestation and some additional spices and upload it to their admin portal.

After the system board replacement we got errors that the device is in another orgs tenant. This is not unusual (you open a ticket with MS and they typically fix it for you), and really isn't to blame on Dell per se. Why ewaste equipment you can refurbish?

Just adding 5c to the anecdata out there re: TPM as an imperfect solution.


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Fnoordlast Thursday at 12:30 AM

When I replaced a motherboard (rest of the hw was OK) Microsoft was of the opinion I had a 'new computer' and would need to buy a new Windows 10 license (of IIRC 150 EUR → scoundrels). I went to G2A and bought one for 20 EUR. Then it hit me. This occurred before when my previous motherboard/CPU was broken, and back then I actually called Microsoft where they insisted on selling me a new license. I did exactly the same back then.

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