• Visiting Japan and Asa-Dora

    One of the small joys of refusal visits to Japan is learning the ebb and flow of morning TV programs. And for me that is defined by the National broadcaster NHK. You know the morning has properly started at 8pm JST, when the morning drama opening credits fire up. It is a rotating program that…

  • Interesting workflow: Optimizing your W10 base image

    Note – If you are viewing this page on a mobile device some embedded code may not display, switch your mobile browser to desktop mode. Since the release of the cumulative update model, managing Windows updates has become a much simpler process. Updates are typically released broadly to enterprise devices monthly after they have gone […]…

  • PowerShell: Removing UWP apps from Windows 10 1607/1703/1709

    Some great technical writing here, just the facts from Mike Galvin on the necessity of helping manage UWP apps and Pre-provisioning of them on Win10-1709 (Creator Update). Looking forward to the finalizing of the RTM version soon, and pulling down the .iso files to start my own test .wim for use at work.

  • Heads Up from Mike Caulfield (due diligence)

    Today in the New York Times, a Bari Weiss column links to an OFFICIAL ANTIFA ACCOUNT that calls gay man Dave Rubin an anti-LGBT fascist. This is supposed to prove, according to Weiss, that the Left is out of control: Dave Rubin, a liberal commentator who favors abortion rights, opposes the death penalty and is […]…

  • There are funnels, oh yes.

    Every time I hear something about limiting screen time I cannot help but think about how poorly the concept has been thought out. If we talked about “food time” instead maybe that would help us think that while time matters (eating for hours each day is probably a bad idea), how long you eat probably… via…

  • Adding Windows 10 Version, BIOS Mode and Secure Boot State to BGInfo

    Originally posted on Mike's Tech Blog: Recently, my team has been doing a lot of testing for our next big Windows 10 In-place Upgrade. We are designing and developing a new process that I call Windows as a Service in the Enterprise (and we plan on sharing this at MMSMOA in May). As part of…

  • ConfigMgr Lab – Adding Ninite Apps — from: GARYTOWN ConfigMgr Blog

    So you have a Personal ConfigMgr lab, but you want to add some app deployments to better simulate your actual environment. So you add Chrome, Reader, and a couple others (NOT JAVA). Next Month, they are out of date. You probably don’t have time to keep your personal lab app deployments updated, so you keep… via…

  • Whither NMC? So long, it’s been good to know yuh. 1993-2017

    It was kind of like two blog posts unexpectedly colliding or passing in the night past a burning barge. On Sunday, Bryan Alexander asked some large questions about How would you design a professional association for the future?. I also wrote about the impending death of Storify and in their dying process leaving no plan… via…

  • College Town & The Money Island

    I think the comments on the reprinted site here: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/8/28/college-town-and-the-money-island Those comments help reinforce the example provided by the prior example of a failed money island: RIT’s Park Point. That should have given any developer pause, once that development hit the skids. The Urban Phoenix Every time a new vacancy is announced in Rochester’s ambitious…

  • VM vs. DISM – patch Tuesday updating

    I just read a quick debate on Twitter between Johan Arwidmark and Mike Terrill on the topic of which path makes for smaller Windows Images when you are doing the quick monthly incremental updates. You know them as Microsoft “Patch Tuesdays”. So just yesterday (Aug. 8, 2017) the most recent cumulative update came out. And…