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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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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 8450 is now available

The latest and new release of Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for Windows is now available for download at ​https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54259 This version supports Windows 10 build 1709 (Fall Creator Update) and SCCM current branch (1710), as well as includes some fixes like: Win10 Sideloaded App dependencies and license not installed CaptureOnly task sequence doesn’t allow capturing an

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Windows Server – Honolulu technical preview

As you may know, Microsoft has announced a new Windows Server management experience to manage on-premises system with the Honolulu project. The Honolulu project delivers a more modern interface for managing on-premises system through a web interface with no cloud footprint (no dependency what so ever with Azure or other clouds services). In this post

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Windows 10 – Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a security functionality built in Windows 10 to help detecting, investigating and protecting against threats, introduced with Windows 10 build 1607 (or known as Anniversary Build). In this post, I’m going to implement ATP integrated with SCCM Current Branch (you can request a trial for ATP here http://aka.ms/register-wdatp)

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SCCM – Identify Azure AD Joined device

UPDATE this post has an updated version here https://t.co/W3AUonuSR9 Following my post to create an SCCM device collection for Windows Core (https://t.co/ZGdL91Vkht), I wanted to do the same to identify all Azure AD Joined device. So the first thing was to find how to identify an Azure AD Joined device; and the answer is with

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SCCM – Create a device collection for Core server

There is a lot of resources available on Internet to create System Center Configuration Manager device collection based on the operating system but none are helpful to create a device collection to identify all Windows Core servers, especially Windows Server 2016 Core as there is no more switching between Core and UI. So after digging

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