Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2 In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the…
This page is intended to be a table of contents for blogs that myself, my colleagues, or members of the IT community have published that we use in our Windows as a Service in the Enterprise process. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview…
Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1 Windows 10 brings several new challenges to the Enterprise – one of the major challenges is deploying Windows 10 and then…
At MMSMOA 2018 in my Hacking the Task Sequence 2018 that I presented with my good friend Andreas Hammarskjöld, one of the demonstrations that I did was to show how to unload a disk filter driver in WinPE without doing a reboot. The number one reason for wanting to do this is to provide a…
Recently, my team has been doing a lot of testing for our next big Windows 10 In-place Upgrade. We are designing and developing a new process that I call Windows as a Service in the Enterprise (and we plan on sharing this at MMSMOA in May). As part of our testing, we need to test…
In Configuration Manager Dynamic Drivers & BIOS Management with Total Control Part 1, I talked about the requirements for the various scenarios when coming up with a solution for driver and BIOS management. I also gave a glimpse of what the Task Sequence steps look like once the solution is in place. In Part 2,…
When approaching any solution, it is a good idea to come up with a list of requirements that the solution needs to be able to meet. This way you will be sure to start off on the right foot and not have to rip and replace, add to, or redo over the solution in the…
At the Midwest Management Summit 2017, I gave a session called Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence. In this session, I covered both types of BIOS to UEFI Task Sequences – Wipe-and-Load and In-place Upgrade. This blog is going to cover the In-place Upgrade version of the BIOS to UEFI Task Sequence. This Task…
As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10…
In Upgrading the BIOS Part 1, I gave some very important reasons why you should be proactive about upgrading the BIOS on supported systems in your environment. In this blog, I want to discuss the approach to flashing the BIOS along with some lessor understood caveats as it relates to BitLocker, BIOS passwords and UEFI…
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