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…
December 8, 2019 Moving large amounts of content across a diverse network environment happens to be one of my specialties that I have focused a better part of my career on over the last 12+ years. Basically it boils down to how to get the least amount of data from point A to point Z,…
On Monday, May 13th, AZSMUG held their Q2 meeting of 2019. It was broadcast and recorded using Microsoft Teams. A big thanks to the sponsors, Microsoft and HP, Inc. for making this a great day and to all of our speakers listed below. AZSMUG and co-sponsors Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are putting together a half day…
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…
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