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SCCM – Desktop Analytics is now available in public preview

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As you may be aware, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch has been providing insights about your devices using Windows Analytics, helping you in the upgrade process from previous version of Windows to Windows 10. Well, Windows Analytics is now evolving into Desktop Analytics to provide more recommendations and better application compatibility. To start

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Windows 10 – The new Windows 10 version, 1903, is now available

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  This is a rap, Windows 10 1903 is now officially available.   You can get it either using through WindowsUpdate server, Windows Update for Business, Visual  Studio subscription (aka MSDN), Software Center (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) and Volume License.   As part of this availability, you also have the Windows Assessment Toolkit (ADK) used for OS deployment

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Intune – Issue with the “Rename Device” preview setting

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As announced earlier this month (https://t.co/l7JVfqcLQs), a new setting has been introduced in preview to allow renaming Windows 10 device enrolled in Intune. As this is a preview feature, there is always chance to have unexpected behaviour; one has been found. It appears that if your Windows 10 device is also AD domain joined (including

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Azure – Windows Virtual Desktop is now available in preview

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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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Intune – You can now rename Windows 10 devices from the Intune portal

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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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SCCM/MDT – The latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is available

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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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Intune – Group Policy is coming in Intune (preview)

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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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SCCM – Offline servicing for Windows Server 2019 is not working

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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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Azure – Azure Backup Server now support SQL 2017 and Windows Server 2019

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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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