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Windows – Quick reminder: Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are reaching end of support in Jan 2020

It has been already reminded few times but as this is quite important as these versions are still use quite a lot you really need to start thinking to move on from Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. They are reaching their end of support/end of life on January 14th 2020.You have few […]

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Intune – You can now target specific users/devices when applying Windows Hello policy

With the latest updates on Intune, you can now define specific users/devices when you apply a Windows Hello policy. Until then, the Windows Hello policy was a tenant level settings and as such applied to all users/devices. To define the Windows Hello policy, go to your Intune configuration blade and reach out the Device configuration\Profiles

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Windows 10 – Error 0x80180014 when joining Windows 10 to Azure AD

I just got an interesting error when trying to join a Windows 10 1803 to Azure AD; I was continuously getting the error ‘0x80180014’ when trying to join the device to Azure AD. The interesting thing was this device has been already Azure AD Joined but has been reset, with all reference in Azure AD

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Azure – AD FS 4.0 is now available on Azure Marketplace

You can now quickly deploy a Windows Server 2016 virtual machine with AD FS configured for Federation and single sign on for cloud applications. Search the Azure Marketplace or the virtual machine catalog for “ADFS 4.0 Server Windows 2016” (I give you the direct URL for it https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/cloud-infrastructure-services.adfs-server-2016 to the Marketplace). AD FS will then

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Azure – Windows Server 2019 Preview is available as VM image

Windows Server 2019 Preview (the next major release of Windows Server) is now available for Azure Virtual Machine. Just search for Windows Server 2019 when you create a new virtual machine Search the marketplace (https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/) for Windows Server 2019 Or access the marketplace directly from this URL https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/microsoft-hyperv.rs5_preview Enjoy

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Windows – Windows 10 1803 ADMX files are now available

Few days after the release of the new Windows 10 build (1803, also known as April Update), the ADMX files to manage GPO settings for Windows 10 1803 are now available for download here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56880 NOTE for some reason, the files are not extracted to the defined target folder when running the MSI package (default

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Windows 10 – You can (finally) manage the bandwidth used by Windows Update

UPDATE May 6th, after the release of the ADMX file for Windows 10 1803, the GPO settings to manage these restrictions are available With the Windows 10 April Update (build 1803) you finally can manage the amount of bandwidth being used by Windows Update. To manage the limits (applicable to both download and upload [aka

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Windows – Windows Admin Center is now available in GA

Windows Admin Center (formerly known as Project Honolulu) is now available. You can get it from http://aka.ms/WACDownload Windows Admin Center (WAC) is a new web-based administration interface, centralizing all (or most of) administration consoles (MMC) you are using as a Windows servers administrator. WAC can be used to manage Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server

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Intune – Enable Windows Redeployment from logon screen

Starting with Window 10 build 1709, it is possible for administrators to re-initialize Windows 10 devices to remove personal files and settings and revert the device to an original state, while keeping the device enrollment. Enable the policy To make Windows Automatic Deployment available from the logon screen, you must first enable the policy; which

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