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At a client - 2012 R2 IPHTTPS DA and win 10 1511..... Client wants force tunnelling so all traffic is routed back through the internal network and the web filter etc.... Issue is, www.msftncsi.com cannot be contacted as soon as force tunnelling is enabled. Tried a couple of basic things, such as adding msftncsi.com into…
Continue readingIn win 10, at least Microsoft have given users the option of tablet or desktop mode... unfortunately... as per usual for products of late.... there's not exactly great ways to manage this as a deployment admin. For one client, they wanted certain groups to be forced into tablet mode.... no group policy for that. Using…
Continue readingOne of the disappointing things about windows 8 to go is its disappointingly small number of certified USB devices that the wizard interface lets you use.... so, lets circumvent the rubbish that Microsoft put in to ensure decent performance... then we can abuse them for the poor performance of our non certified devices! If you…
Continue reading1 month in, and there has been a few annoyances... but the I've now experienced my first "big pain in the arse" issue with windows 10. I am travelling for work at the moment - and the hotel has the "connect to our hotspot, a web page opens and you auth in the webpage" I…
Continue readingSo far, everything has been pretty positive.... I've found one thing that could possibly be a bug - a pretty minor one. I normally set/raise my task bar to be "two" levels high, this seems to be set ok, but on next logon, it reverts to "one level" high. Offline files - after realising I…
Continue readingI have been using Windows 10 enterprise tech preview for a few days now - and here are my initial thoughts The new eval centre from where the eval is downloaded is odd. Apart from having to sign in multiple times, the download progress is not shown anywhere A fresh install (which I opted for)…
Continue readingAn announcement over at http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/09/30/windows-10-enterprise-management-with-sc-configmgr-and-intune.aspx 3 things of note: Windows 10 will be delivered in a way that allows for more choice and flexibility for businesses Oh shit - here comes a product which is going to limit choice and flexibility and force me down a specific path for something I previously could make a…
Continue readinghttp://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/ features etc. have been consistently leaked, so none are a surprise, the main quandary is - what was wrong with calling it Windows 9? I was/am still keen for this, no matter what the name is. I was one of "those" who placed windows 8.1 in the "its a good OS under the covers…
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