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https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-server-update-services-wsus-deprecation/ba-p/4250436 Not really surprising - there hasn't been any meaningful updates to WSUS for a very long time... there are improvements that could be made - but no appetite to make them.... i imagine because the cloud solutions have a direct cost (and are therefore revenue producing) whereas WSUS does not. The argument could be…
Continue readingFollowing on from the dumpster fire that is Windows 10 start menu and taskbar configuration - The win 11 team have really stepped up and made this even worse... why? because "fuck you thats why" seems to be the best explanation. Start menu and taskbar config is now 3 different configuration settings Start menu The…
Continue readingWindows 10 version numbers when running within Windows are fairly well known are are available from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history However, when adding the WIMs to SCCM as OS images, the numbers don't match up. When aligned with the absurd method of obtaining Windows 10 21H2 which does not give you any information on which version your getting…
Continue readingRecently i had a client which had M365 licensing, but was a little on the smaller side, so did not have an EA or earlier Windows 10 enterprise licensing through the VLSC. In this situation, MS would have you install the Pro version of Windows 10 - and let you upgrade to enterprise via M365…
Continue readingNow that the useless marketing fluff has subsided a little, more useful information about Windows 11 is making its way around the web. Some keys parts for enterprise customers i believe will be: Yearly update cycle (as opposed to currently twice-per-year updates.... "semi-annual channel") Reference : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-lifecycle-and-servicing-update/ba-p/2493043 I might be out on a limb here…
Continue readingRan into this fun one today, admittedly it was in my dev environment and is not a common scenario for our clients, which usually have much larger networks and network segments. Trying to install the ConfigMgr client, via client push or manually, fails with the below error repeating in ccmsetup.log Download Update: A recoverable error…
Continue readingNCSI has been around for a long time now. It can be disabled by using the policy at Computer Configuration\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Internet Communication Management \ Turn off Windows Network Connectivity Status active tests however, disabling it has impacts on technologies such as direct access. Recently a client was getting prompted for auth form their proxy…
Continue readingfrom http://www.scconfigmgr.com/2018/09/24/deploy-win32-applications-with-microsoft-intune/ The ability to “package” applications for deployment in Microsoft Intune is something that has been highly requested by many organisations making the move to management of devices through Intune. Although there is a fundamental difference in deploying applications through Configuration Manager and Intune, Microsoft is developing tools to provide similar functionality across the…
Continue readingAs a follow up to my article a few days ago on Always on VPN vs DA - http://www.hayesjupe.com/always-on-vpn-and-da-a-comparison/ - an employee of mine was having a test with some spare time today and came up with the following findings. Configured and tested the VPN server using L2TP/IPSec + PSK, User/Pass using MS-CHAP-V2 Attempted to…
Continue readingCurrently i am creating some server builds for a place which will be deploying large numbers of servers over the coming months. One of things that is/was taking up a great deal of time was offline servicing for the base OS, primarily because the SCCM server is currently sitting on a virtual environment with disk…
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