If you plan to migrate to Windows 11, you will probably want to determine which machines fulfill the requirements for an upgrade. If you are using MECM, you can find this information for single machines in the Resource Explorer. The Resource Explorer item is based on the view v_GS_UPGRADE_EXPERIENCE_INDICATORS which is fed by the hardware… Read More: Custom report to display Windows 11 readiness information in MECM »
Here’s a short description on how to enable Windows 11 Insider Preview updates on Hyper-V machines. Set up a Hyper-V Generation 2 machine with Windows 10 21H1. Make sure the recent updates are installed. Configure 8192 MB RAM, 4 Processors and enable the TPM. On the VM host, run Set-VM -VMName… Read More: Enable Windows 11 Insider Preview updates in Hyper-V »
Application Guard came with the 1709 release of Windows 10 to make internet browsing more secure. The Edge browser is running in a hidden virtual machine that is built from the OS files of your physical machine and that has a limited life time: When the user logs off, the machine gets deleted. The level… Read More: Solutions to activate and configure Application Guard with SCCM »
There seem to be two common issues with Outlook after the upgrade of Windows 10: Users may experience that mails are hanging in the Outbox forever. Users are basically not able to send anything anymore although receiving mails continues to work. The Send to mail recipient function doesn’t work. When you right-click a file and… Read More: Common Outlook issues after the upgrade to Windows 10 »
The issue came up when upgrading to Windows 10 to 1709 and it was the same when installing 1709 from scratch: Although we thought that we had provided all language components (Language pack ja-jp, Language Features Basic, Handwriting, OCR, Speech, Text to Speech, Office 2013 MUI), Skype came up with displaced buttons and text fields… Read More: Skype display issue when running Windows 10 with Japanese language… »
Windows 10 comes by default with the latest PowerShell version which is 5.x. This is fine but the problem is that for downward compatibility reasons, version 2 is also still included and active. Version 2 was released in 2009 and a deprecation was announced in August 2017 but it’s unclear when it’s actually going to… Read More: Enhance PowerShell security – Reasons to disable PowerShell 2.0 and… »
The Windows 10 Deployment and Management Lab Kit is really great to get familiar with Microsoft’s latest deployment and management solutions and is being updated and extended every 90 days. It is based on 90 and 180 days evaluation versions (Server 2016 Standard, SQL Server 2014 SP2, SCCM CB). In case you have access to… Read More: Upgrading Microsoft Evaluation Editions »