Overview of the portal

In the HoloLens device portal main screen, you can see the main screen of the device portal. There is quite a lot of information here that will tell you all sorts of things you need to know about the device. However, the first question is, How do we get here?

The device portal is switched off by default. You have to explicitly enable this option by going to the settings screen; once there, select the Update option and you have the option to choose the For Developers page. Here, you can switch the Developer Mode on, which is a necessity if you want to deploy apps from your development environment to the device. You can pair devices; again, you need this to deploy apps and debug them, and you enable or disable the device portal.

If you set up your device correctly and have it hooked up to a network, you can retrieve the IP address of the device by going to the settings screen, selecting Network, and then selecting the Advanced settings option. Here, you will see all network settings, including the IP address the device currently uses.

When you enter that IP address in a browser, you will be greeted with a security warning that the certificate that the device uses is not trusted by default. This is something we will fix later on.

The first time you use the portal, you will need to identify yourself. The device is protected by a username/password combination to prevent other users from messing with your device.