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VBScript as a removable Windows 11 feature?

By Michael Niehaus on March 3, 2023 • ( 3 Comments )

While I generally appreciate Microsoft’s efforts to provide ways to remove old stuff from Windows (and I wish this removal also removed the files from \Windows\WinSXS to free up disk space, but […]

Want to block Windows 11 “moments” that add new features?

By Michael Niehaus on March 2, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Microsoft announced on February 9th that they are adding a new controls to Windows 11 22H2 (and beyond) that allow organizations to temporarily turn off new features that are periodically released on […]

“Something went wrong”: An Autopilot + AAD + Intune reliability retrospective

By Michael Niehaus on February 17, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

I’m sure it would come as no surprise to anyone that the #1 troubleshooting step when you see an error message is to search for it via Google or whatever other search […]

Microsoft supports Windows 11 on ARM for M1/M2-based Macs with Parallels

By Michael Niehaus on February 16, 2023 • ( 3 Comments )

I’ve written about my experiences with running Windows 11 for ARM64 on the newer ARM-based Mac devices from Apple, using both Parallels Desktop and VMware Horizon. But Microsoft’s position was always that […]

Simplify the process of generating an AAD bulk enrollment provisioning package

By Michael Niehaus on February 14, 2023

The process is supposed to be fairly easy: Launch Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (ICD), walk through the wizard, specify that you want to join Azure AD, type in your Azure AD […]

The mysterious case of the failed AD domain join

By Michael Niehaus on February 10, 2023

Sometimes I do some weird stuff, but this wasn’t one of those times. All I was trying to do was simple Configuration Manager task sequences to do bare metal deployment of Windows […]

Samsung Magician won’t launch? Here’s a simple fix

By Michael Niehaus on February 2, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

If you’ve ever installed the Samsung Magician software to check to see if your Samsung SSD’s need firmware updates, you might have seen an annoying behavior: You might have an older version, […]

Troubleshooting UEFI boot entries: how #5 is 4th

By Michael Niehaus on January 25, 2023

Some days things just go in a different direction than you expect. In today’s troubleshooting exercise, I had to figure out why a PC wasn’t booting as expected to a new UEFI […]

MacOS Ventura: Where have I heard this before…

By Michael Niehaus on January 17, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Apple released a new version of MacOS called Ventura (version 13), and it has generated some heated discussions around a topic that sounds very familiar: The replacement of the venerable System Preferences […]

Is 2023 the year for Windows on ARM64?

By Michael Niehaus on January 12, 2023

Windows on ARM goes back over a decade. Fortunately, it’s gone from a relatively-crippled device that only ran store apps (Windows RT) to a much more general-purpose device. But is it ready […]

Is 2023 the year for Windows 11?

By Michael Niehaus on January 7, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

I’ve stated in various forums that Windows 11 will be successful, whether you like it or not — eventually. That’s because the cost/benefit analysis shifts greatly as Windows 10 gets closer to […]

Windows 11 had a bad year: More links

By Michael Niehaus on January 6, 2023

I read lots of tech-related media (on top of lots of tech-related podcasts); it’s probably a holdover from my Windows marketing and product management days when it was important to stay on […]

Windows 11 had a bad year

By Michael Niehaus on January 5, 2023

Windows 11 was originally released in October 2021, and a second new release (22H2) came out in December 2022. Overall, how is it doing? From all signals, it appears to be doing […]

Want to see end of life dates for, well, anything?

By Michael Niehaus on November 25, 2022

The Windows 10 and Windows 11 release information pages are useful, and there’s also the Microsoft Lifecycle site (not quite as useful as you have to decipher it), but what if you […]

Now released: VMware Fusion for running Windows on ARM on M1/M2 Macs

By Michael Niehaus on November 25, 2022

After a long technical preview period, the released product is finally available. The official announcement can be found here. The previews were fairly rough — functional, but certainly with some rough edges. […]

The mysterious case of broken time sync

By Michael Niehaus on November 16, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Today was kind of weird — after having a brief conversation about time sync during OOBE that brought back a bunch of memories, touching on a blog that I did talking about […]

Project Volterra: my new ARM64 “toy”

By Michael Niehaus on November 10, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Yes, I am a fan of Windows running on ARM64 hardware. I have a few existing ARM64-based devices, including a super-underpowered one, a surprisingly powerful M1-based Mac Mini that runs Windows ARM64 […]

Get ready (and get MDT ready) to deploy Windows 11 22H2

By Michael Niehaus on October 6, 2022

While many are still sticking with Windows 10, those that have already made the leap to Windows 11 or plan to start investing heavily in devices with 12th generation Intel processors will […]

Windows 22H2’s are here

By Michael Niehaus on September 22, 2022 • ( 6 Comments )

While Windows 11 22H2 gets most of the attention, there is also a new Windows 10 22H2 release. So which one will you deploy, and how will you deploy it? The quick […]

Prompt for time zone (and maybe other stuff) during Autopilot

By Michael Niehaus on September 16, 2022

In one of my sessions this week at the Workplace Ninja Summit, I included a video that showed how you could modify the OOBE flow to prompt for the time zone that […]

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