Category: Bug
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Edge SSO, Work or School Accounts, and Subscription Activation (Enterprise OS)
How We Got Here: Sigh. Enterprise Activation is a topic I have now spent the past year writing about…April 2024, Enterprise Activation Broken by Windows Update.Retired article: September 2024, Work or School Accounts Break Enterprise Activation Part 1Retired article: November 2024, Work or School Accounts Break Enterprise Activation Part 2Retired article: December 2024, Work or…
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Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 2
This Article Has Been Retired! Warning: I have chosen to “retire” this article. As time has marched on, and more information has been revealed, the blogs in this series have slowly become less and less up-to-date, and frankly, more and more of the information I was told as gospel has proved flawed or muddied. As…
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Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 1
This Article Has Been Retired! Warning: I have chosen to “retire” this article. As time has marched on, and more information has been revealed, the blogs in this series have slowly become less and less up-to-date, and frankly, more and more of the information I was told as gospel has proved flawed or muddied. As…
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Fixed – Enterprise Subscription Activation Broken by KB5036893 & KB5036892
This Has Been Fixed as of August 2024: A preview fix came out in July as part of KB5040527 and KB5040525. That fix was then fully released as part of the August update KB5041585, although they didn’t copy over the above noted fix in the documentation from the preview update. I’ll leave the article up…
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Fixed – KB5034441 Causing Issue for WinRE
Clarification: This article is probably going to confuse a few people. Yes, this topic was previously being covered by an article dating back to May that covered both this issue and the Enterprise Activation update issue. The point of that article was to both discuss the recent update experience and the recent support experience. Unfortunately,…
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Bug: March 2024 Surface Laptop Firmware Update Causing Incorrect System Time
Here’s a fresh bug hot off the presses. Getting right into it, here is what I have to share. If you also experience this issue, please comment! Update sections will be appended to the tail end of this article as news comes out. I’ll apologize in advance for any typos in this one – It’s…
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Bug: Windows 11 KB5027231 + (some) AV is Breaking Google Chrome
Here’s one hot off the presses. Getting right into it, here is what I have to share. I will update this article as the issue and information progresses. What is happening? Today we started seeing a handful of reports that Google Chrome would not launch on devices. As the day went on, this number started…
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Bug: Zoom VDI + Screen Capture Protection = Blank Zoom
So, this is going to be an interesting post. I don’t know for fact if this is an issue others are facing, it could be self-inflicted. However, all testing doesn’t suggest this and ultimately, I would rather write something and have nobody else experience it than say nothing while others suffer in confusion like we…
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Murdering Windows 11 Performance by Disabling Windows Defender – What Not to Do.
This is the story of how a rather innocent seeming policy, a policy which many other blogs “suggest” (to one degree or another), can absolutely destroy Windows 11 performance. This issue can slow the machine down by an order of magnitude – under the right conditions. This issue took me the better part of a…
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Autopilot ESP Bug: Office C2R Teams Installer Resulting in MSI Collision Nightmares
The title here says a lot. Through no short amount of pain, I have uncovered an unfortunate ESP bug related to the Teams Machine-Wide Installer specifically when deployed through Intune using the Microsoft 365 Apps (Windows 10 and later) app type. This article makes for a direct follow up to my ESP App Failure Troubleshooting…
Azure to the Max 