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A long wait should be coming to an end sometime this week (that’s my educated guess!). When the wait ends, we Windows Insiders will get some new builds to play with. The previous builds — namely, 18362 for the Release Preview Ring, and 18875 for the Fast and Skip Ahead Rings — were released two
When it comes to Windows management, network administration, deployment and other computing stuff, I want to do as much as possible using built-in Windows tools and utilities. As I have often said, I use no third party optimizers, tweakers, downloaders, cleaners and other snake oil stuff. For me, the main principle in Windows management and
As we explained in an earlier article, the release of Windows 10 version 1903 (19H1) to the Release Preview ring last week brought some changes to the Windows Insider program. The Fast Ring now gives pre-release builds for a build still a year away, for version 20H1. However, for thousands of users who installed the
There’s a fundamental flaw in Windows 10 Setup when performing a clean install on a new empty hard disk or SSD. The same is true when wiping the disk empty on a device containing a previous Windows 10 installation and deleting all partitions and performing a clean install. The flaw is, Windows Setup positions the
Microsoft finally released its first Insider Preview build of the Chromium based Edge browser yesterday. For the record, its version number is 74.1.96.24. ? Calling all web devs and tinkerers! ? The first preview builds of the next version of #MicrosoftEdge are ready for you – try it out now! https://t.co/I531hfmD3G pic.twitter.com/Tvh6OGGouO — Microsoft Edge
Earlier today, Brandon LeBlanc posted a release notice for the version of Windows 10 formerly known as 1903. Now, it’s called the May 2019 Update. The bits are available to the Release Preview ring. Looks like that’s what I’ve also got on my formerly Fast Ring, now Slow Ring, PC. It’s Build 18362.30. It ‘s
Historically, prior Windows releases (up through and including 1803) have defaulted to require use of the “Safely remove” notification panel widget to properly disengage external USB storage devices, like flash drives. Starting with the current release, that is no longer required. You can simply pop those little suckers out whenever you feel like it (though
In Part 3, we customized the deployment image by modifying our answer file, INI files and adding software. But there’s another method, one I personally prefer you could use to proceed . My personal preference is to capture a custom image from a reference machine, and then import that captured custom WIM file to MDT
After the failed release of Windows 10 version 1809 and circus that followed, it was nice to read in a post to the official Windows blog that the Release Preview ring is back. Not only is it back, it will be prolonged. In the past, a new feature upgrade would go to Release Preview Insiders
Today’s blog post by Mike Fortin (Corporate Vice President, Windows) describes a pending change to Microsoft’s feature upgrade system. It is surprising, and at the same time, not surprising at all. Let’s first take a look at the most interesting part of this post: We will increase the amount of time that the May 2019
Dear subscribers, let me first thank you. You are important to us. We’ve had some issues with the automatic new post notifications we send you. In fact, no emails were sent in the period starting from late February until recently. We did not notice because we received an email each time telling that notifications were
Edit Answer File To customize a deployment task and the related image, we can edit its answer file Unattend.xml. Right-click the deployment task sequence, select Properties, select the OS Info tab, and then click Edit Unattend.xml to open it in the Windows System Image Manager (WSIM), part of Windows ADK you installed in Part 1:
For those seeking older Windows ISOs (and other MS ISOs, too) HeiDoc.net’s ISO download tool is worth getting to know — and using!
Microsoft faced a huge task when they started moving all documentation for their products and services from TechNet and MSDN to its new Microsoft Docs (https://docs.microsoft.com) sub-site. When launched in June 2016, Microsoft Docs only contained the .NET documentation, Since then, most of the other content has gradually moved over under that same umbrella. I
Microsoft recently upped its tally of Windows 10 users to 800 million, after a year or more at the 700 million level. They’re already behind on hitting the 1 Billion mark, but should get there eventually.
In Part 1, we got MDT installed and set up. Here in Part 2, we will import operating systems to the MDT Deployment Workbench and create a Task Sequence to let us deploy Windows, and finally deploy a default Windows 10 install to a target device. Import Operating System To deploy an operating system, it
With the release of a UWP app for managing built-in GPUs, Intel takes a first step into higher-end graphics controls and capabilities. Check out its new Graphics Control Center app.
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