What is Windows Admin Center? Windows Admin Center is a lightweight, browser-based GUI platform and toolset for IT Admins to manage Windows Server and Windows 10. It’s the evolution of familiar in-box administrative tools, such as Server Manager and Microsoft Management Console (MMC) into a modernized, simplified, integrated, and secure experience. When I finished setting…
I’ve been exploring Microsoft 365 for the past few weeks and then just recently properly introduced to it after attending a 2 day readiness session conducted by Microsoft PFEs where we had overwhelming information (fun times for geeks like me). They covered Windows 10 (Modern desktop) |Office 365 | & Enterprise Mobility + Security. There were just too…
I visited a client last Friday, to troubleshoot a case were after a batch of HP laptops got OS Refreshed to Windows 10 some of them are NOT getting anything pushed down in Software Center. Problem: Actual report received: Windows Updates and Software does not appear in Software Center. Reported that they have re-image these machine on correct…
I was asked by my Project Manager to generate a report for HP machines (desktop and laptops) that lists Hosts names, Hardware Model, BIOS version and Operating System version. I Run the Query below SQL Management Studio and saved the result to a CSV file: SELECT Bios.SerialNumber0 as [Serial Number], Bios.SMBIOSBIOSVersion0 as [BIOS Version], Comp.Name0…
Scenario: A client requires their Windows 10 drives C: and D: Encryption Method is XTS-AES 256, fully encrypted and BitLocker Recovery key stored in Active Directory. The steps below will show how to set it up in the task sequence. Set Windows 10 Registry Settings After post OS install create a group called BitLocker Registry Settings, we…
This post will show how to set both English (Singapore) and Chinese (Simplified, Singapore) Language Input in Windows 10 during OSD. Below are the detailed steps: Preparing the registry settings. In a Windows 10 machine, launch the registry editor (Regedit.exe), browse to the HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT and delete everything under the default user registry. ***Note: All folders under the default user registry needs to…
Problem: I was ask to come down to a client last Friday to troubleshoot an issue where the required Windows Update installations are stuck in Software Center for almost 2 days, although it’s confirmed that the ConfigMgr client can resolve the Site and after several restart of the machine and running M.U.A.S.S. Machine Policy Retrieval…
Watch out for our webinar “Always up to date with Windows 10 and Windows as a Service,” with Jay Paloma, soon! Official link will be provided once it’s up.
Last month we presented Always Up To Date with Windows 10 and Windows as a Service during the Microsoft Tech Summit Singapore and there’s a part of the talk where we showed how easy it is to update System Center Configuration Manager. Administrators can just find the new update when it’s released under the Administration…
When delivering an infrastructure projects, one of the tasks is to implement Server Hardening via Group Policy it could be less or more restricted depending on the security guide lines. Problem: This past week we had a desktop lock-down scenario where after joining a server to the domain we see this window pop-up “explorer.exe – System…