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Yes, i know... no-one should be running Server 2012 anymore.... but due to this clients ludicrous outsourcing agreement, upgrading servers is simply too expensive - so they still have some 2012 (non-R2) Hyper-V hosts. Anyway - quite a specific issue In short - A server 2019 guest sitting on a Hyper-V 2012 (non-R2) host will…
Continue readingIn some type of bizarre alternate reality, linking a corporate Microsoft account to a personal Microsoft account so the user can earn "Microsoft Rewards points for Microsoft Bing searches done in their browser or Windows search box while signed in with their AAD account" is seen as a good option to have - despite the…
Continue readingIf your anything like me - the amount of environments that you are now accessing via a variety of nested citrix/RDP/VPN/Hyper-V Console/JumpBox's etc - well.... its now 100% of what you deal with. One of the pains of nested sessions (apart from the clipboard) is pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del for tasks such as…
Continue readingThis post is written in August 2022 - and may or may not current by the time you read this! Recently i was was refreshing a larg-ish RDP farm to newer OS's/version ready for an upgrade of the core business application. As part of this, new Server 2019-based RD Brokers were to be setup…
Continue readingIt seems that many people have a beef with MS for forcing Windows hello for business onto machines where they are joined to Azure AD - as per https://feedback.azure.com/forums/169401-azure-active-directory/suggestions/17762902-allow-for-deactivating-windows-hello-and-set-up It can be disabled via intune....but what if you don't have intune - and cant manage the device until its enrolled with your 3rd party solution…
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 readingDetecting and removing Windows 10/11 optional features via SCCM can be a bit of pain via inventory - as the class is not inventoried by default. One alternative is using a compliance baseline - which provides a quicker turn-around for any remediation you may want to do and wont bloat your database with additional inventory…
Continue readingO365 or M365 Apps for enterprise or Microsoft defender for spreadsheets - or whatever its called next week - can be... unpleasant.... at the best of times to deploy and configure.... here's a couple of things that can help. Use the web-based config.office.com to create your xml, not SCCM The main reason here, is that…
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…
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