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HotCakeX
Nov 13, 2019MVP
[Solved] Allow PIN support for Windows 10 devices
I want to allow my Windows 10 1909 (Hyper-V VM) to be able to use PIN for sign ins. I have created a non-administrator account and joined my VM during Windows installation to the AAD from the start....
- Nov 14, 2019
Okay so I figured out what the problem was.
as I said I was using a VM in Hyper-V, it was in Enhanced session mode, meaning it was connecting to the VM using RDP protocol which is better and more scalable in screen resolution, but that also was preventing Windows Hello for Business to work.
so with Enhanced session mode in Hyper-V, my Windows 10 settings page looked like this:
and in basic session mode, it looks like this:
so that's it, very simple thing that kept me up all night figuring out what I was doing wrong..hope this will help anyone else stuck in the same situation.
HotCakeX
Nov 14, 2019MVP
Okay so I figured out what the problem was.
as I said I was using a VM in Hyper-V, it was in Enhanced session mode, meaning it was connecting to the VM using RDP protocol which is better and more scalable in screen resolution, but that also was preventing Windows Hello for Business to work.
so with Enhanced session mode in Hyper-V, my Windows 10 settings page looked like this:
and in basic session mode, it looks like this:
so that's it, very simple thing that kept me up all night figuring out what I was doing wrong..hope this will help anyone else stuck in the same situation.
MikyMike82
Feb 15, 2022Copper Contributor
Almost a post from 2+ years.... but cost me a lot of headache figuring out what kind of strange errors i was getting setting up my hello for business in a test VM.... summing up my environment and a google search brught me here! Having a good nights sleep now...