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My slides from the EVRY Windows 10 event can be downloaded HERE This time covering the focus on the user experience, security and mobility in Windows 10 Enterprise version.

My slide decks from the Windows 10 Partner Bootcamp are ready for download Microsoft Windows 10 Bootcamp - Active directory Microsoft Windows 10 Bootcamp - MDT Offline media Microsoft Windows 10 Bootcamp - Windows as a service

Modern Workplace Summit have come to an end, it was a great conference, thanks to Ståle  and Johan for making it happen, well done.  

Sometimes you need to make sure that your network profile are defined as “Private”, for instance when you want to connect to the computer with Remote desktop, or other firewall related configurations. First time you connect to a network you will get a pop up that actually are asking you if you want the network to be used as a “Private” or “Public” network, it just ask in a bit “confusing” way. (Domain profile” are only available for domain joined computers and will be automatic selected if there is a domain controller on the network).

In middle of August Windows 10 have supposedly reached more than 50 million computers (info here ), and with users trying it out at home and loving it, the pressure to get it at work computers also are build up. Microsoft have done different measure to make sure that enterprises will have more control over their Windows 10 deployment. The Windows 10 upgrade should be automatically blocked on computers or devices in the following scenarios:

The Insider Preview build of Windows 10 are getting new products keys. If you are upgrading from a previous build you should not get any problem with the old activated keys. If you are doing a new clean install you will need to type in the right product keys. Clean install can be done when the ISO file is available later (when the build hits slow ring), or when you create your own ISO with this guide  from the ESD file

A great friend will leave us on july the 14. 2015. He have served us well and his descendants will for sure continue to server us into the future. Thanks for your services my old friend What does this mean and what can/should we now do?

You can download my slide deck from HERE

You can download the slide deck from the session HERE  

Lots of topics cover in what time we had available today. Some minor problem with running it all on a build of Windows 10 made public about 12 hours before the seminar (of course display driver related ;-), but still a fun session to do.   Slides HERE

Det er et par ledige plasser på frokost seminaret jeg skal holde på torsdag 21.mai. Jeg kommer til å se på versjoner av Windows 10, oppdateringering (inkludert "Current branch for business" og "Long term servicing branch"), sikkerhet og mye mer. Mer informasjon HER  og påmelding HER

Ignite is over, a great week with lots of highlights. After 3 session with The Blues Brother as a starter topic, it was a real pleasure on the 4 and last session to get visited bye them on stage.   My session can be downloaded here Creating USB Install Media With MDT The 15 Minute Surface Deployment Guide   Picuture from unitedsandhausen  

I found myself in the situation that I needed to get the Windows key out from the ACPI in the UEFI bios and preferable get to use it in a task sequence in MDT. There are different ways of doing this, but I wanted to do this with little code and easy to understand. There is a nice tool created to get the key on github, created by Christian Korneck, called get_win81key. This tool gives you the key in plane text. You can get it HERE: https://github.com/christian-korneck/get_win8key If I were supposed to do this manually, I now would just take that key and type it in with slmgr command or in the GUI. But I want to do this within a task in MDT. Testing a couple of solutions without using the get_win8key with my great scripting guru colleague Håvard ( www.grondal.me ) and figuring out that it cannot be done with default powershell stuff, it needs more code. Therefore, we quickly figured out that some use of the “get_win8key” files is the easiest way, but we need a way of ...

Just days away from Ignite in Chicago, and I am already on the way from Norway. I will do 2 different sessions this year with a repeat on both. This is Windows Theater sessions so that means it will be 15-20 intense minutes, no time for bull.

Doing system changes via a script files will often require that you run it in the context of administrator. Doing this with script I run myself is easy enough, I know that if it fails it is because I forgot to use "Run as administrator" when I started it (or did a poor job creating the script). However when creating scripts that other people will run it will be a good idea to add a check in the script and give feedback to the person running it.

The Surface Pro series have now gotten a new MSI file that you can download from HERE If you want details you can read more about it at Joe Eldridge blogpost on Technet (forget that it says "Surface Pro 3, it is for all three versions)

On my NIC 2015 session Control and manage you cloud Clients I did lots of talking about the Azure Active Directory Device Join feature in Windows 10.

  The slide deck from my NIC 2015 session "Control and Manage Your Cloud Clients" can be downloaded from here

Last run of the customer cloud experience here in Bergen   The slide can be downloaded Here

Just finished the first session about Windows 10 here in Bergen   And the slide can be downloaded from here  if you want them

Last day here at NIC, me and Alexander will do a repeat of out cool session " Optimizing Surface deployment and connected standby (with Olav Tvedt)"  from yesterday at 15:00 in room 5 And you can now download the slides from that session here

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If you want to get information about Veeam backup and reel life examples the VMUG gathering in Bergen is the place to be You can also learn about what's new in vSphere.next and in the process win a  

But now an Windows Expert-IT Pro MVP  (and still a drama queen, obviously) After 6 1/2 year as an Setup & Deployment MVP (lately know as Software Packaging, Deployment & Servicing) I have now changed expertise area to be become an Windows Expert-IT Pro MVP

For now MDT doesn't support deploying Windows 10. That is related too the new version number Windows got with build 9926.  

Playing around with the new Windows 10 Technical preview build 9926 I went in to check for updates since I was missing my display drivers, figuring out that it's better too check if Windows update have them, then installing the Windows 8.1 version (this will in most cases work, and this is what I had to do on the previous public build). There was some updates, so I started to install them, and after it was finished I got a real positive news about the update feature in Windows 10

Currently in Office 365's Exchange online, your users items in the delete folders will be automatically "deleted" after a maximum of 30 days. Even though you can go into the management in Exchange admin center and change the values to something higher or to use never it will actually not be more than 30 day retention time for the items in delete items box (or junk mail folder)