Category: Windows 10
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Microsoft Defender for Intune: Stay Safe!
**DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…
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The End of an Era: Internet Explorer is going away
In 1995 I got my first Internet-connected computer – a Gateway laptop with an 80386 CPU and a 14,400 baud modem. It changed my world in a number of ways: I had not had my own computer since leaving Canada two years earlier; It was my first portable computer – I loved not having to…
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Windows 10 21H1
I keep getting questions from friends and customers about when the next release of Windows 10 (21H1) is going live. I am going to say it once more for the people in the cheap seats: While I do get internal communications at Microsoft, I do not share them… ever. I have never once broken my…
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Windows Updates Delivered from Intune
**DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…
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Time Sync Through Intune
**DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…
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Deploy Your Apps From Intune
**DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…
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Logging on to Your AzureAD-Joined machine
In my last article I explained how to join a Windows 10 workstation to AzureAD. So now you should be able to log on, right? Well that is not fun… You know that you typed your password in correctly. You are certain of your username, and there is no good reason why… unless they…
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Event Viewer Tasks: Get rid of them!
A little while ago I was demonstrating some of the functionalities of the Windows Event Viewer. It has been around for so many years, and yet there are people who have not used it. One of the functions that I demonstrated was attaching a task to an event… so when a particular event happens, a…
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Internet Explorer: Still slowly going away
For the last who-knows-how-long, Microsoft Windows users have been opting for a third-party web browser in lieu of the dreaded Internet Explorer. They went through so many versions over the years, it was almost comical. Each time they released a new version, Microsoft would tout their modern browser. Each time, the masses would snicker, claiming…
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A Clean Windows Installation…
It happens twice every year… Microsoft releases a new version of Windows 10. For most people, the new version will be installed for them automatically by whatever method they use for patch management… either Windows Update, or any of myriad enterprise deployment tools their organization uses to manage desktop operating systems. Unfortunately, due to a…
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Windows to Go Lives!
Sometimes the universe is talking to me. This weekend, for reasons I cannot recall, I was thinking about the fact that Microsoft announced that it will be deprecating Windows to Go, and that sometime this fall I would be faced with the choice of either: Keeping my supported Windows 10 v1903 Windows to Go key;…
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Windows to Go… Going Away.
In April of 2012 I was extremely excited as I walked to the stage at an event in Redmond, Washington and did my first ever presentation on Windows to Go. I loved the idea of being able to take my installation of Windows – operating system version, applications, documents, the works – with me anywhere…
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Upping My On-the-Go Game
It has been seven years since my buddies Raymond and Erdal and I got on stage at a conference in Redmond and demonstrated – for the first time ever to a non-NDA crowd – the functionality of Windows to Go (WTG)… and nearly four years since I picked up my Spyrus Worksafe Pro 64GB key…
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The Dangling Control Panel
Once upon a time, the Windows Control Panel was an easy to navigate set of icons that consolidated in one place all of the administrative tasks we would need, both as an end user and as a desktop administrator. Things change, systems evolve. The Control Panel that we knew in Windows XP evolved, through Windows…
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