Windows 10 Update Channels: You’re getting SAAAAAAAC’d
I’m going to shake it up here and do something totally crazy. I’m going to talk about operating systems for a moment. OSD is absolutely something in my wheel-house and I certainly have my own ways of...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Win 10’s Quality Update Cadence
A couple of weeks ago I went through the history of how the cadence of Windows 10 Feature Updates has changed since Microsoft cooked up their initial cockamamie scheme. You can find that here: You’re...
View ArticleMMS 2019: What’d We Learn?
Le sigh. Another Midwest Management Summit has come and gone. These events have always been whirlwinds but this year I had ten sessions where I was speaking in some capacity. While I didn’t get to...
View ArticlePSA: New Update Product Categories for 1903 Release
Update: After doing a full-court press on this we were able to get Microsoft to address this officially. My thanks to Mary Jo Foley and Donna Ryan for help make that happen. Updating Windows 10,...
View ArticleIntune Patching Part 1: Human Translation
I helped implement Intune at work (Recast Software) which was a great opportunity to dig into the patching side of things. In this first part I’m going to try and cover the technical details and make...
View ArticleIntune Patching Part II: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
In Part I of this pathetic little series I tried to cover enough of the technical details so that if you don’t currently patch your devices with Intune you could get a feel for it without actually...
View ArticlePull Distribution Points: Great DPs or Greatest DPs?
One of the first arguments I ever had about ConfigMgr was around distribution points. The initial design drawn up included several secondary site servers all sitting right alongside our primary site...
View ArticleMMS JAZZ: Less Jazz Hands, More Fancy Jackets
Last week I attended my seventh MMS event. As usual I’ve given some thought to the experience and figured I’d write something up. Location Location Location One of the greatest parts of this year’s...
View ArticleMaintenance Windows: The Never Never Land of Patching
Maintenance Windows are a concept that can be tricky to fully grasp at first. I’m too lazy to even try to help you there so if you need some ‘splainin then I suggest you first head over to the docs and...
View ArticleAll My Devices Left Me. I’m Scared. What Do I Do Now?
This, the foul year of our lord 2020, has really really gone south on us all real quick. We went from masters of our own domain to empty nesters in record time. As our users flee for home we’ve all had...
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