TL;DR: SCCM maintenance tasks for WSUS no longer work if you are using WSUS with the Windows Internal Database (WID). When looking at the SCCM wsyncmgr.log, I noticed some SQL exceptions that […]| Out of Office Hours
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 have merged in changes from the community to create a new release on GitHub, which you can find here: You can find the release notes on the release itself: Follow the links to the pull requests (…| 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 a long time working exclusively on Windows devices, I had switched to MacOS on a MacBook Pro a few years ago because that was the practical thing to do while working […]| 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
Sometimes I would like to try something and have it “just work.” Today was not one of those times. The task was simple: I want to try to use CMPivot to query […]| Out of Office Hours
Six conferences in one week, and boy am I tired. Well, really it was six events in one, all in the same place (Orlando) at the same time. But it was still […]| 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
Remember the change planned for October to start installing updates during OOBE? The one that didn’t have any controls? The one that interrupts the Autopilot user-driven flow by rebooting the computer in […]| 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
A while back, I noticed that updates were installing at the end of the Autopilot process, after device ESP had completed and before the user signed in. Per Microsoft’s post, this is now going…| 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
While doing some Autopilot (v1) pre-provisioning work using the latest Windows 11 Insider Canary ring build (27695), I noticed a new item in the UI: If you try it out, you can see a rough version o…| Out of Office Hours