The Cloud is a neighborhood

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 ...