Change Windows 10 from volume license (VLK Pro/Enterprise key) to use the key machines built-in key

Felt a bit stupid today (again). Have been struggling with some Microsoft Surface Go devices. Love the device but, when they are shipped with Windows 10 1803 version you will use some time updating them. So my brilliant idea was to reinstall them clean with the latest updated ISO from a stick. Smart right?, jupp except that I download the business VLK version.

TechDays Sweden: What a fantastic day

Just chilling after 2 amassing session here at TechDays in Stockholm

Promised to get the presentation out to night so here they are:

LET'S PUT THE BUSINESS INTO ONEDRIVE FOR BUSINESS  

WHAT’S NEW FOR SMBS IN FALL CREATORS UPDATE

And if you want my Test-OneDrivePath.ps1 you can find the newest version on my GitHub under construction page HERE

Maybe I will have time to create a better guide for it soon. Remember it works just as well with your Sharepoint migration

Slide deck from Hackcon2017

The slide deck from my session "Protecting your critical systems from new and unknown malware, 0-days, and APT" can be downloaded here

Hackcon #12

I will be speaking at this years Hackcon in Oslo. 

It is in Norwegian, my session content are covered HERE. A very short English summary are: Protecting your critical systems from new and unknown malware, 0-days, and APT with modern features as for instance Device/Credential Manager and Identity protection.

About Hackcon
The national cyber / information security conference HackCon was established in 2005. The Hackcon network consists of people from Norway who hold high safety expertise in cyber / information. The goal was to create practical cyber / information security courses and safety conference, combined with a social meeting place to meet future challenges in cyber / information


For complete Hackcon #12 agenda you can go HERE

Windows 10 Anniversary update fail (KB3194496)

Just installed the Microsoft KB3194496 update for Windows 10 Anniversary update and have successfully rebooted.

I had the problem a lot of people have had lately with the update installing and rolling back after installation.
 

EVRY Windows 10 Gold Partner Event - Slide decks

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.

Windows 10 Summit / Modern Workplace Summit 2015 - Slide deck available

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

 

Windows 10 - Changing network profile from public to private

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).

Deploying Windows 10

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:

Windows 10 Build 10158 and up product keys

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

#EVRYWhatsNext Slide Deck from Microsoft's session about Windows 10 and Surface

You can download the slide deck from the session HERE 

Windows 10 breakfast seminar slide deck are now ready for download

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

Noen ledige plasser på Windows 10 frokost semniar i Bergen 21.mai

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

NIC: Control and Manage Your Cloud Clients

 

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

Microsoft Days Bergen: The Perfect 10 slides

Just finished the first session about Windows 10 here in Bergen

 

And the slide can be downloaded from here if you want them

Deploying Windows 10 Preview with MDT 2013

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

 

Windows 10 Gives better control for Windows update

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

How to boot from VHD file (Windows 10 Preview)

Although it is now easy to test things in a virtual machine it is still something that require, or work better, on a physical installation. Among other Hyper-V or devices with touch screen.

So now when "Windows 10 Technical Preview" is here it is an appropriate time to go through how to use the VHD files as a disk to install the OS. Which makes it possible to start the OS directly without going through a hypervisor, even though we use a VHD file as disk.
You need to have the Pro or Enterprise version of Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 8.1

 

I will assume that you have downloaded the required ISO file, links can be found in my blog post

http://olavtvedt.blogspot.no/2014/10/microsoft-jumps-over-number-9-windows.html

Windows 10 - Modify The "Start Menu" Or Change To The "Start Screen"?

With Windows 10 you get your "Start Button" back if you are using a device with a keyboard. On devices without keyboard (touch display) or with devices with removable keyboard with the keyboard deattached, it will be started with just about the same start screen as in Windows 8.1. It is now even better than the old Windows 7 button.

Microsoft jumps over the number 9, Windows 10 Technical Preview are here

Windows 10 can now be downloaded from MSDN or from http://preview.windows.com/ if you dont have MSDN access.

 

 

Preview site don't have the enterprise version, but it should soon be ready for download from the Technet evaluation center HERE.

MSDN contains Windows 10 Enterprise and the Windows Server preview too. Server will be available later and also as a Azure VM :-)

 And the version number are adding up to 10 (6+4)

 

:-)

More info in Technet can be found here HERE