Microsoft enabled automatic updates for PowerShell with the release of PowerShell 7.2; that continues now with PowerShell 7.4. If you’re devices are updated from Windows Update directly and you’ve enabled updates when […]| Out of Office Hours
I spent a lot of time in the weeds around Windows licensing, but I’d prefer to forget it all. Sadly, that’s usually not an option, especially as I work on Windows imaging […]| Out of Office Hours
I could stop there, but I won’t. In any case, let’s review the Windows Enterprise SKU licensing model, straight from the source: Windows 11 Enterprise is licensed as an upgrade license …| Out of Office Hours
After years of neglect, no one was terribly surprised when Microsoft said that MDT would not support Windows 11. Even prior to that, it was often up to the community to keep […]| Out of Office Hours
It’s something that I hadn’t tried in a while: Capturing a custom Windows 11 image using MDT. But there were a few posts on Reddit commenting about challenges doing so, so I thought I&#…| Out of Office Hours
If you are using Windows 10 or 11 (i.e. everyone), you are using Delivery Optimization (DO) to download all sorts of things — see Phil Wilcock’s post for a good overview of […]| Out of Office Hours
Yes, Windows 11 24H2 is available to everyone (after being ARM64-only for a few months). As usual, there are a number of related items updated at the same time: What is available […]| Out of Office Hours
The Snapdragon Dev Kit, an ARM64 desktop PC running the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite CPU, was announced at Build 2024 back in May 2024, and was supposed to ship in June. […]| Out of Office Hours
Triggered by the publishing of documentation for Windows Server 2025 about features removed or no longer being developed, Microsoft published a separate post explicitly calling out one of those items: WSUS. While […]| Out of Office Hours
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A long time ago, the original marketing materials for Windows Autopilot (before it had a name) were created by the engineers working on the product. It pitched Autopilot as a way to simplifying the…| Out of Office Hours
Microsoft published KB5043950 which describes an issue where the Defender for Endpoint agent (Sense client) isn’t installed as expected on Windows 11 24H2. This can happen when a device is up…| Out of Office Hours
Windows PowerShell 5.1, the version that’s built into Windows, shipped back in 2016 with the release of Windows 10 1607 and Windows Server 2016, with support for older OSes back to Windows 7 …| Out of Office Hours
I mentioned in my previous post that I was able to use “Co-management Authority” (a.k.a. “Co-management settings”) to install the ConfigMgr agent and then initiate a task se…| Out of Office Hours
I always thought the process of creating Windows USB media was pretty simple: take a USB key, format it as FAT32, then XCOPY the contents of an ISO to that USB key. But there are some complications…| Out of Office Hours
Phil Wilcock posted a blog last week with details about “non-peerable” content, pointing to Microsoft’s official documentation about what is and isn’t “peerable.”…| Out of Office Hours
In the slow march to its final death, the Microsoft Store for Business (and presumably the Microsoft Store for Education as well) has removed the ability to add, edit, and remove Autopilot devices.…| Out of Office Hours
My first thoughts around Autopilot v2 (a.k.a. Autopilot device preparation) are scattered through a week of posts: Digging into Windows Autopilot v2 Windows Autopilot v2 experience: Some surprises …| Out of Office Hours
One of the things that is not currently included in the APv2 device preparation policy is an option to configure the computer name, so as a result the devices end up being given a random name like …| Out of Office Hours
People have made fun of Microsoft’s progress bars for decades. We’ve all seen examples, e.g. file copies that show days, then minutes, then hours; “updating Windows” message…| Out of Office Hours
The social media DMs, e-mails, and blog comments around Autopilot v2 have raised a bunch of questions, interesting points, speculation, opinions, etc. I figured it would be useful to summarize thos…| Out of Office Hours