This has been a hot potato with Windows 10, the fact there is a new edition of Windows 10 and that everyone using the school agreement isn’t allowed to use the Enterprise version of the OS. The must use new Education version which has its own media. When Windows 10 1507(10240) was released it was…
Customizing the Taskbar in Windows 10 during OSD
I wrote a blog post before on how to remove the Edge icon in the Taskbar on Windows 10, https://ccmexec.com/2015/12/removing-the-edge-icon-from-the-taskbar-during-osd/ This post will cover how to use the same scripts and deploy a customized Taskbar instead with the Internet Explorer shortcut instead of the Edge icon. 1. Download the Script from Technet Galleries https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Manage-the-taskbar-remove-c3024e40 2….
Removing the Edge icon from the Taskbar during OSD
This one isn’t pretty but it does work just fine. One of the most common questions I get when we do Windows 10 projects are how to modify the taskbar and to be more specific remove the Edge icon. The configuration of the Taskbar is stored in a big blob in the registry so what…
ADK 10.0.10586 breaks the Refresh scenario in ConfigMgr 2012 SP2 / R2 SP1
Earlier this week the new ADK 10, 10.0.10586 was released or made available on Microsoft Download. I downloaded it as I and many others have had some issues with .Net applications and Powershell scripts in WinPE on X64 UEFI Machines when PXE booting them and the new ADK solves that problem 😀 However it creates…
Windows 10 ADK 10.0.10586 solves the Powershell/.Net bug in WinPE.
Earlier this week the new ADK 10, 10.0.10586 was released or made available on Microsoft Download. I downloaded it as I and many others have had some issues with .Net applications and Powershell scripts in WinPE on X64 UEFI Machines when PXE booting them and the new ADK solves that problem 😀 More on the…
Turn off Flash in both Edge and IE in Windows 10
In Windows 10 there are built-in support for Flash in both Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge but that doesn’t mean that you should use it! Even if that makes updating the Flash plugin much easier as it is done using Microsoft Update/WSUS/Configuration Manager it is still very many 0-Day vulnerabilities and security issues in…
Remove the Onedrive Setup during OSD in Windows 10
In Windows 10 Onedrive is builtin, in some scenarios you don’t want to use it as, for instance if you use both Onedrive and Onedrive for Business installed as that is confusing for the user. Yes, you can turn of Onedrive using a Group Policy but the Onedrive Setup will run for every user creating…
ConfigMgr vNext feature: Windows 10 Bulk enrollment
Provisioning packages in Windows 10 is a really cool new feature which has great potential both for configuring Windows 10 and to assist in the deployment. Configuration Manager vNext has a great new feature as well which is Bulk enrollment of Windows 10 devices, Technical Preview 3 support Windows 10 Desktop edition, but let us…