If you have a Hyper-V host running Windows Server Datacenter edition (in lab environments, typically this would come from a Visual Studio/MSDN subscription), one of the nice features that you can leverage […]
Michael Niehaus
Windows as a Service cheat sheet
It’s been three years since I worked in Windows marketing talking about Windows as a Service. At the time, I was quite happy to say that I would never have to talk […]
Running x64 on Windows 10 ARM64: How the heck does that work?
My previous blog post raised more questions in my mind than it answered. While Microsoft talks about x64 support being added to Windows 10 Insider builds, it doesn’t say how. And the […]
Product Review + Windows 10 ARM64 discussion: Samsung Galaxy Book S
First, let’s talk about the device. I’ve written about Windows on ARM64-based devices previously, and used a variety of ARM64-based devices from Microsoft and other OEMs that I borrowed for specific testing, […]
Turn off the (Insider) News & Interests page
As announced back in January, the Windows Insider builds have a new “News & Interests” item that shows the current weather on the task bar, and if you click that, it shows […]
Turn off the “Meet now” button
One more item that you might want to hide is the new “Meet now” button present in the latest Windows 10 release (20H2), and apparently also added to older Windows 10 releases […]
Turn off the (new) Edge welcome page
It seems like every time Microsoft adds something that shows up the first time you sign into Windows on a newly-deployed clean OS, you then have to search around for “how do […]
Tanium 101
It’s now been over three months since I left Microsoft and joined Tanium as a Global Technology Specialist. During that time, I’ve been through a lot of training, as well as hands-on […]
Digging into the Windows Feature Experience Pack
If you’ve not heard of the Windows Feature Experience Pack, here’s some catch-up reading for you: Releasing Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.2020.0 to the Beta Channel Microsoft is testing out this new […]
UEFI Secure Boot: Yes, again
Last week, I posted about UEFI Secure Boot, showing how to look at the Secure Boot “db” on a UEFI device. To summarize, the certificates in the UEFI “db” variable are used […]
