After having being announced some time ago, the Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) solution is now available in preview. Based on Windows 10 operating system, this delivers multi-user session on Windows 10, quick scalability and supports Windows Server Remote Desktop Service apps. Windows Virtual Desktop is free is you have Microsoft 365 E3, E5 or F1 […]
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The latest Intune updates introduce the ability to rename Windows 10 devices (1809 [aka RS4] and later). When using the feature, the next time the Windows 10 client connects to Intune his name will be changed. To start using it, logon to your Intune tenant either from the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) or your Devices Management
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After few months of waiting, the latest version (8456) of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is now available for download. This version provides support for Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019. You can get it from https://aka.ms/mdtdownload As always, you will have to update your existing MDT share and/or the SCCM integration.
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The latest update on Intune is providing (in preview) the ability to configure group policy (GPO) for Windows 10 devices. This is not (yet?) the exact group policy we have in Active Directory but the idea is the same and based on the well known Administrative Templates (ADM/ADMX). NOTE this is currently not supported for
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If you use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to manage updates deployment, OS deployment and additionally keeping up to date your OS image (WIM), you need to know that SCCM offline servicing is incorrectly detecting Windows Server 2019 WIM image as Windows Server 2016. This has been confirmed as a bug in SCCM and should
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Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) v3 now support SQL 2017 workloads and can be installed on Windows Server 2019. In addition MABS v3 introduces support for TLS 1.2 and support for VMware VM backup (vCenter and ESXi 6.5 and auto-protection when new VMWare VM’s are added to a protected folder) You can get here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup#software-package
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This has been available for few months already but apparently was not quite known. Since last August 2018, you can now request to refresh an enrolled Windows 10 (1703 and later) from Intune. The refresh option – called Fresh Start – will remove all preinstalled application while keeping the device enrolled. It is important to
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The latest Intune update allows you to configure the Delivery Optimization for Windows Update in Windows 10/Windows Server 2019 (yes, Delivery Optimization is also available on Windows Server 2019 ) Do configure the Delivery Optimization you need to create a new Device Profile for Windows 10 or Later and then choose the Delivery Optimization profile
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Following the availability of the new SCCM Current Branch build (1810), it is now possible to use the built-in SCCM task sequence to use Autopilot when deploying OS. To use it, you need to create an SCCM package which will contains the Autopilot settings and use the SCCM tasks sequence (this is not available for
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NOTE the following applies for Microsoft Account (aka MSA, aka not corporate account like Office 365/Azure account) If you are already using Windows 10 1809 (aka Windows 10 October 2018 update), you can now setup Windows Hello to use FIDO2 key. FIDO2 key are physical security key to avoid you enter your password. To enable
