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 […]
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Getting rid of Teams (consumer), revisited
My previous post on removing the consumer version of Teams from Windows 11 (to avoid confusion when you’re going to install the business version of Teams) had some holes. Rather than edit […]
Windows 365 / Cloud PC first takes
With the recent announcement of the Windows 365 service for delivering “Cloud PCs” to users in enterprise and SMBs, I can put on my analyst hat and spend a little time trying […]
Windows 11 Start menu observations
I initially installed the leaked Windows 11 build to see the changes for myself, as I mentioned in my previous post. After the installation, those changes were fairly obvious: But if you […]
Booting your own Windows PE image
My previous blog talked about how to create a Windows PE boot image. Next you need to know how to boot it. And there are plenty different ways to do that. These […]
Quick note: Windows 10 2004/20H2 and renamed Administrator accounts
This one popped up on Twitter today, although it’s been around for about a month: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4592802/error-when-accessing-the-sign-in-options-or-users-mmc-snap-in The quick summary from how I read this: If you’ve renamed the local Administrator or Guest […]
I’m not dead yet
I (somewhat) quoted Douglas Adams when I posted that I was leaving Microsoft after 16+ years. And after reading enough comments on that on LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. that sounded more like eulogies, […]
Changing the Hyper-V screen resolution during OOBE
2020-08-01 quick note: This blog post is resurrected from a December 2017 blog on the old blogs.technet.microsoft.com site (RIP), posted here with minimal edits. I’ve recorded a variety of videos (especially for […]
Make ESP look better by disabling FSIA
Leave it to Microsoft to turn everything into an acronym. So let me start with definitions: ESP = Enrollment Status Page. This shows the progress of the Windows Autopilot device provisioning process, […]
Windows Autopilot and ESP now work with Windows Hello for Business certs
Some of you reported that you were trying to provision new devices using Windows Autopilot with ESP enabled, and were running into issues when trying to deploy Windows Hello for Business (useful […]
Starting again…
I’ve been blogging since 2006 on my original Microsoft blog. But you might have noticed an exodus from that blog site, with a move to the Tech Community site or one of […]
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