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Windows 11 is looming on the horizon and many are wondering where the journey will take them. In this article I will look at the changes to the life cycle / WaaS (Windows as a Service) and the changes for businesses. Windows 11 and hardware compatibility There has been a lot of discussion on the…

Now that Windows 11 is officially available, the support dates are also known. Therefore, I have extended the life-cycle diagrams to include Windows 11 and Microsoft Office 2021. As far as support periods are concerned, there were no surprises, but it is as already described in the article “Windows 11 Life-Cycle and other changes for…

In this article I show the manual Windows 11 installation and the first insights. The version used is from the Beta Channel, the Windows 11 Enterprise 21H2 (OS Build 22000.194) version. Since Windows 11 is already installed on my test hardware via in-place upgrade, I use a Hyper-V VM for this. It is absolutely necessary…

Today I will write me first English private Blog to share with you my project experience. My learning since a couple of years are everyone is talking about BIOS passwords as part of security but in real life the most BIOS password will be set one time and never change in the time of using…

Behind the feature “Automatic Virtual Machine Activation” is a function in Microsoft Windows Server 2012R2 Datacenter, Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter and Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter for Hyper-V, but it works only with the Datacenter Edition activated. With this feature, all supported Windows Server operating systems since Microsoft Windows Server 2012R2 can be automatically…

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has published new documents on Microsoft Windows 10 and how to secure it. I looked at the BSI security recommendations for Windows 10 before I wanted to report on them. The background to this is that in the past, publications in this direction were sometimes more than…

I like to work with installation wrappers for packaging. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) or Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) or the Microsoft Deploment Tollkit (MDT), I have also used them for Microsoft Intune packaging. The thought at the time was, I have an install script and an uninstall…

Software distribution with the freemium solution Chocolatey. A look at the free community solution with its strengths and weaknesses. In this article I explain how Chocolatey can be used and where its limitations lie. The article Software management with Chocolatey from Fabian Niesen was published first on InfrastructureHeroes.org.

With Microsoft 365, there are various plans, and you don’t always find the one you are looking for. Here is an overview of various Microsoft 365 plans, some with the order links behind them. These links are affiliate links, which means we get a commission without changing the costs. This helps us to run this…

After my download solution annoyed me a few times, I outsourced the download. The new home for the downloads is GitHub. This also makes it easier for me to maintain and update. At the moment I have two repositories that I use for InfrastrukturHelden: Download scripts, code snippets and sample code You can find these…

The Microsoft Windows 10 Sandbox is a new security feature in Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise. The idea behind it is to try something out in a safe “sandbox”. For example, installing a potentially insecure application. Let’s get started with the sandbox game…. How to install and use the Windows 10 Sandbox? The article The…

Let’s first look at the comparative figures between the last article from October 2019 and now. The Edge Bowser and Microsoft Office have seen the most changes. Please also check our article Device-specific administrative templates in Intune 2101. Category October 2019 February 2021 Edge 228 383 Internet Explorer 249 245 Microsoft Office 2113 2166 OneDrive…

Let’s first look at the comparative figures between the last article from October 2019 and now. The most changes have been made to Edge Bowser and Internet Explorer. There are also new settings for BitLocker. These were previously only configurable via their own policies in Intune. Please check also our article User-related administrative templates in…

In October 2019, I had already published a list of administrative templates. After that time, I thought I should update it. During the preview phase of the Administrative Templates in Microsoft Intune, there were only 277 of them. Then in October 2019 there were 3334. In the current Intune version (version 2101 – as of…

Microsoft is changing its product life cycle for the Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) for Office and Windows. Some will still know the LTSC version as LTSB. Previously, this Windows 10 version, which was not intended for office environments, had a life cycle of 10 years. Microsoft Office LTSC, also known as Microsoft Office 2016…

With the security update of 11 August 2020, Microsoft has addressed a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472). This has not yet been closed automatically, as compatibility problems may occur. How to close the vulnerability beforehand is explained in KB article 455722. Since the gap affects the RPC or Secure RPC connection, it is advisable to check beforehand…

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year 2021. YourFabian Niesen & the other authors of InfrastructureHeroes The article We wish you a Merry Christmas from Fabian Niesen was published first on InfrastructureHeroes.org.

This is the last part of the article series. The series consists of Part 1 is “Network Installation with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit – Part 1: Notes, Preparation and Setup“, Part 2 is “Network Installation with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit – Part 2: Service Account, Drivers, Software, Base Image Considerations” and Part 3 is “Network…

This is the penultimate part of the article series. Part 1 is “Network Installation with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit – Part 1: Notes, Preparation and Setup” and Part 2 is “Network Installation with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit – Part 2: Service Account, Drivers, Software, Base Image Considerations” Creating Task Sequences There are several templates of…

This is part 2 of 4 of the article series. Part 1 is “Network installation with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit – Part 1: Guidelines, preparation and setup”. Configuring a Service Account To access the network share, create computer accounts and perform other functions, a service account should be created for the MDT in Active Directory.…