Funny story: I was trying to test out some Windows 11 upgrade scenarios and had configured a VM with 4GB of RAM since that’s the minimum required to support Windows 11. With […]
Windows 11: When 4GB is not 4GB
Upgrading to Windows 11 with Tanium
I’ve always known that Tanium supported doing in-place upgrades to later versions of Windows, but since I had been focused primarily on Tanium provision for bare metal imaging, I had never actually […]
Introducing Tanium Provision
Most people remember that I left Microsoft and joined Tanium a while back. One of the things I’ve been working on at Tanium was publicly announced this week, with a Go-Tanium YouTube […]
You can bypass the Windows 11 hardware requirement check, but it’s not a good idea
2022-07-25: See https://oofhours.com/2022/07/25/bypassing-windows-11-hardware-requirements-revisited/ for more up to date information. 2021-01-25: Edited to reflect that settings that worked on Insider Preview builds no longer work with the released Windows 11 RTM builds. Microsoft […]
What’s new in Windows 11, part 2
Part 1 was rather lengthy, covering the UI changes in Windows 11. We’ll start off part 2 by looking at the changes to the Windows apps. Yes, these are also UI changes. […]
What’s new in Windows 11, part 1
I did a presentation at a couple of events in October and November that went through a fairly lengthy list of new features in Windows 11. This builds on the information that […]
How does UEFI boot from a CD?
In a past post about UEFI, I talked about the boot process: The UEFI firmware looks for a FAT32 disk volume that contains a specific file, e.g. EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi, and it loads that […]
Yes, Windows as a Subscription
I’m sure all of you remember when Windows as a Service was introduced with Windows 10. Most people thought this was really “Windows as a Subscription” and that Microsoft was somehow going […]
Trying out Proxmox VE, an open-source virtualization platform
I had a specific need (more on that later) that could be satisfied with solutions such as QEMU (an open-source machine emulator that can do all sorts of interesting things) and KVM […]
Changes to Windows 10 as a service
With today’s release of Windows 10 21H2 (a fairly boring release overall as there aren’t really any significant new features — thankfully it can easily be deployed to Windows 10 2004 and […]
Need to manage a diverse set of platforms? Try Tanium.
I spent a good portion of my career focused on managing and deploying Windows devices. Since most organizations have a lot of these, it made sense for most orgs to have teams […]
Customize the Windows 11 Start menu
In the original Windows 11 preview builds, the documentation published at the time only covered the OEM process for customizing the Start menu. The type of customization OEMs can do is fairly […]
How many types of Windows updates are there?
One of the biggest changes in Windows 10 was the move to cumulative updates. With this change, a lot of the nightmares that IT pros had with Windows XP disappeared. But even […]
Add a TPM to a VMware Fusion VM
As I noted in a previous blog post, Windows will now enforce the TPM 2.0 requirement for virtual machines with the latest Insider builds. Fortunately, VMware has documented how to do this […]
Windows 11: Some answers, some questions
Windows 11 is now officially available, as expected. (While it’s not yet October 5th in all of the world, it was made available when it became the 5th somewhere in the world.) […]
Windows 11 hardware requirements change again
I walked through all of the Windows 11 hardware requirements in my previous post, and I thought that was the last we’d have to look at that for a while. But I […]
Windows 11 new hardware requirements: Justified or not?
With the announcements of Windows 11, Microsoft disclosed new hardware requirements for Windows 11, which has easily become the most controversial and confusing part of the announcement. Even with subsequent clarifications, the […]
Windows Server 2022: First impressions
Updated inline to reflect recent updates, marked [2021-08-31]. Quick summary: Make sure you install KB5005104 or a more recent cumulative update to address a significant list of issues. One more update, marked […]
Install Windows Server 2022 from a USB key
I hope all of you are using UEFI-based systems by this point. (For those still using BIOS emulation, it’s time to let it go.) So you probably already know that you need […]
Make Windows images smaller, easily
Back in March, I posted about the actual size of Windows 10 images over time, which resulted in the table below. Windows 10 release WIM size Windows 10 Enterprise 1511 3.75GB Windows […]
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