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 […]
Yes, Windows as a Subscription
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 […]
Windows 365 pricing: scorecard
In my previous post, I estimated/guessed the price of the various Windows 365 configurations available from Microsoft for cloud PCs. As of August 2nd, the real prices are now available. So how […]
Windows 365 pricing: My predictions
After my previous post talking about the new Windows 365 service, a number of people pointed out that the Amazon WorkSpaces offering was very similar. True, and from the Microsoft perspective, this […]
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 […]
You too can build a Windows 7 image…
…but why would you want to? I needed to do some testing on Windows 7 and needed an image of it with PowerShell 5.1 included. (PowerShell 2.0 is pretty ancient and lacks […]
Using the Windows 11 ADK with MDT
While the official notes for the Windows 11 version of the ADK say that it should be used for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022, without any mention of “can it be […]
Windows 11 is now available to Insiders
As expected, the first public Windows 11 build was released this morning to Insiders. You can read more about it in the official announcement. Significant changes from the leaked build include the […]
New utilities in Windows 11
There are some new utilities in the leaked Windows 11 Insider build (21996). The first one is diskusage.exe, a (much) fancier version of the DU utility that has been available as a […]
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