While at the 2018 MVP Summit I found from our own Brendan LeBlanc a wonderful website that tracks every single release of the Windows Insider builds. Great way to keep track of what’s new and whats trending https://flighthub.azurewebsites.net/
Category: Windows Insider
Fixed: OneDrive for Business agent running at 25% CPU after the most O365 Patches
Investigation In January 2018 I noticed a severe impact to my laptop performance. This past week the process Groove.exe (OneDrive For Business) is constantly using 25-40% of my CPU. There are no files to be sync’d and it just constantly states processing changes. I have seen a few threads online stating this may be due…
Resolved: Feature update to Windows 10, version 1709 – Error 0x80242006
Working with some of my team mates this week, I was hearing about multiple machines failing the Fall Creators Update (FCU) 1709 with a Windows Update error of ” Feature update to Windows 10, version 1709 – Error 0x80242006 ” . Looking around the internet I see a lot of people hitting the common solutions…
Windows Insider MVP: 2018
Congratulations! Thank you for your continued contributions to the Windows community, we are excited to re-award you as a Windows Insider MVP. This award is a token of our appreciation, your leadership and passion help make Windows the best yet. We look forward to our on-going collaboration with you and all of our Windows Insider…
Fixed: Task Manager Replaced by Sysinternals Process Explorer
I frequently benefit from Microsoft Sysinternals tools like Process Explorer (ProcExp64.exe). One of the features is the ability to replace the Task Manager Default with Process explorer. However, I found a bug. If you use the x64 version of Process Explorer to change the default you can’t change it back!?!? Solution: You have to open…
What’s new in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Redstone 3, 1709, 16299, etc
Hello all, In the past month I have done 3 separate talks about the new release of Windows 10 FCU (1709). The link below is the slides from the last talk: CTSMUG201710 – Fall Creators Update 1709 The 5 links below are the most useful but I call out a lot of good data below….
Windows Insider for Business (WIPfB) now with GPO control. Time to get a true pilot group in your enterprise
https://insider.windows.com/en-us/for-business-organization-admin/?utm_source=other&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201710-AdminAnnounce&utm_content=WIP_Body_OrgAdmin You can now opt in people via GPO. You can turn on Telemetry, Enable WIP, Select which build the machine gets. You can view others submitted feedback from your company. HOWEVER, you cannot edit or modify your companies submissions, yet. I still say do a query of your enterprise to see who is…
WAAS: Naming Structure Not-So-Secret Decoder Ring
In the past year we have had a lot of Nomenclature Changes for Windows As A Service (WAAS). The following slide from Ignite 2017 really clears it up. Just like designer MUD in a SPA. How often Office and Windows updated? What versions of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr / SCCM) supports 1709 next…
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709) Deprecated Features – PowerShell 2.0 is EOL among others
Fall Created Update (2017 RS3 1709) will be removing some more security holes. I wonder if some of these are in response to the SMB1 fiasco (WannaCry for example). TLS RC4 ciphers. The SCCM Windows Hello deployed feature which has been replaced with the Registration Authority of Active Directory Federation Services SysKey.exe gone in favor…
Ding Dong Flash is Dead… on mobiles in 2020
Flash is dead…on mobile devices… in 2020 (same as Windows 7) http://www.reuters.com/article/us-adobe-systems-flash-idUSKBN1AA22R Oh Happy Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zT8AyfsFmA Unfortunately it will still be supported on desktop browsers. However, I would not consider it far fetched to envision a world where more people user Mobile browsers than desktop ones. I for one will never mind…
