4/26/2020 [Download exported Configuration Baseline and Configuration Items here. This includes the CIs from Part 2 and Part 3.] In Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I covered the settings that are required to enable Wake-On-LAN that are not hardware manufacturer specific. In Part 2 I cover the BIOS (UEFI) specific settings for current…
4/12/2020 [Download exported Configuration Baseline and Configuration Items here. This includes the CIs from Part 2 and Part 3.] In Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I covered the settings that are required to enable Wake-On-LAN that are not hardware manufacturer specific. In Part 2, I am going to go over the BIOS…
4/5/2020 Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. This presents challenges for IT as there…
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…
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…
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…
Operating systems and software are not the only thing that needs to be upgraded these days. It is really important that the BIOS firmware gets updated as well. Lately, I have been talking to a lot of IT Pros at conferences and user group meetings and I have discovered that not too many people upgrade or…
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