Category: Windows
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Windows Autopatch: Scheduled Install and Restart Not Restarting
Howdy folks – I’ve got a discussion topic for today that I want to write about, mostly to save your sanity where I lost mine. That topic being the “Scheduled Install and restart” option in Windows Autopatch. Outline: My History: I want to be very clear right off the bat that this is a topic…
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Everything I Know on Subscription Activation
Overview: Over the past few years, I have had to write far too many blogs on or surrounding the topic of Subscription Activation. Fixed – Enterprise Subscription Activation Broken by KB5036893 & KB5036892Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 1Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing Secondary “Work Or School” Accounts: Part 2Retired: Detecting & Automatically Removing…
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Building Golden Images for Hyper-V Lab Testing
Hyper-V is a wonderful thing, as I really don’t like having 16 laptops and chargers around me to perform testing on. No, I much prefer creating a VM, using checkpoints, blowing them up, and recreating them or reverting them as needed. For a long time, I had a simple process to create Golden Images for…
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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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Automating Reboot Maintenance Using Intune Proactive Remediations
Intro: One of the age-old issues we in IT face is the employee who thinks rebooting their machine is a quarterly process, or at most a monthly process forced by Windows Updates. As we all know, lengthy up times have a tendency to create system instability and sluggishness, prevent application updates from processing (because much…
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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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Automating Disk Space Alerts with Intune Proactive Remediations
Intro: One of the age-old issues we in IT face is a machine running low on disk space. At best, this causes devices to become unstable, struggle to apply patches, and loose overall system (and employee) performance. At worst, it takes the device offline incurring downtime and potentially data loss. Thanks to ever-larger and cheaper…
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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,…
Azure to the Max 