With AutoPilot trending on twitter and in organizations around the world, we’re still creating reference images to support any existing solutions in place. The discussion whether to include Office [...]
Since the release of Windows 10, it has been common for organization to try and reduce the footprint of built-in apps (or default apps) in their reference images, or even during bare-metal deployment. [...]
Apple Admins conference On January 25th I had the pleasure of speaking at the London Apple Admins event at London School of Economics as it was a Apple event I spoke about the crossover with Intune and [...]
What is Auto-Pilot Windows AutoPilot is a collection of technologies used to set up and pre-configure new devices, getting them ready for productive use. I can really see the appeal we use XMA for our [...]
Azure AD Joined/Azure Device Registration/Intune Enrollment I have spent a lot of time over the past few months working with Azure and Intune, there are a lot of toys to play with and a lot you can do [...]
When dealing with Windows 10 upgrades on systems that have a single or multiple language packs installed, most of the time you’d want to keep the same experience in terms of language preferences [...]
What is Windows 10 fast startup Fast Startup in Windows 10 is supposed to help boot Windows up much faster. In a complete shutdown scenario, Windows logs off all users and closes all applications. Fast [...]
For a little more than one year ago, I posted a script that would automate the process of removing built-in applications when creating a Windows 10 reference image. Since then, the script has been amended [...]
In this second post on how to deal with the scenario of converting from BIOS to UEFI, we’ve come to Dell. This series of post consists of the following: Convert from BIOS to UEFI during Windows 10 [...]
I’ve previously written a post on this topic, demonstrating a custom method that could be used before ConfigMgr had native support for the BIOS to UEFI conversion. However, that post should now be [...]
Recently I’ve published a few posts on Upgrade Analytics, like deploying the client script and how to setup a connection between ConfigMgr Current Branch (version 1610+) and Upgrade Analytics. Following [...]
Upgrade Analytics is a solution in OMS that can help you to analyze and assess device readiness and compatibility with Windows 10 for migration or servicing scenarios. Recently, Microsoft released ConfigMgr [...]
A couple of months ago now, Microsoft announced their free service that will replace Application Compatibility Toolkit, called Upgrade Analytics (solution in OMS). If you’ve not yet taken a look [...]
For most Windows 10 deployments, organizations are removing most of the built-in apps that ships with the operating system. However, in situations when this is not dealt with, for various reasons, you [...]
With the release of Windows 10 version 1607, you have the option to install Ubuntu for Windows which gives you a Linux subsystem running in your Windows operating system. At a first glance, you might ask [...]
In previous version of Windows 10, customizing the task bar has been proven difficult to not say the least. Now with the release of Windows 10 version 1607, we finally have built-in support for customizing [...]
Windows 10 version 1607 (also refered to as Redstone 1 or Anniversary Build) comes with built-in support for the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP) service. With the release [...]
In this series I am going to step through how to help secure your internal infrastructure through the use of modern tool...
In the previous part of this series we created the required certificate templates and some prerequisite configuration in...
This part of the blog series will go into details about the required certificate templates and other prerequisites in te...