Category: Windows 10

  • ConfigMgr – Windows 10 Servicing – Step by Step

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    Today I would like to show you, how you can implement an Upgrade of a Windows 10 Installation through the Servicing Option. I always think of two things, when I have to decide to use an Upgrade Task Sequence or the Servicing Model, and those are: Do I want to use the Option that the…

  • ConfigMgr – Windows 10 Feature Update without a Task Sequence

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    Today I would like to talk about the upcoming update cycles you have to do, when you are using Windows 10 Current Branch or Current Branch for Business. This means, if you have started to install Windows 10 1507 (which represents the first Windows 10 Release, some may call it also RTM) in spring of…

  • Azure AD Domain Services – What you can do, and what you can’t do

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    Since Microsoft has Released Azure AD Domain Services, many questions are coming up, and the top one of them might be: Can I join my Windows 10 Client through the internet to my Domain and receive Group Policies? No, you can’t. But besides this, there are other questions that remains to be answered, and I…

  • Windows 10 – Deploy Profile Picture to Logon Screen

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    In my current deployment I wanted to get our fancy pictures from Active Directory to our Windows 10 Machines where it can be used for the logon screen and other places like start menu: First, I want to let you know, how I add the Picture to my user accounts. Well this is quite simple,…

  • Windows and Local Administrator permission delegation

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    In this post, I would like to explain, what my experiences and solutions for the delegation of local Administrator permissions are. In a Client deployment Scenario, you will often be asked for a solution to provide IT Professionals and maybe also end users with local Administrator permissions. I will point out the most useful solutions…

  • ConfigMgr 1602 – Windows 10 Servicing Plans create continuous Software Update Groups

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    I was running the Service Plan for the Windows 10 enrollment within System Center Configuration Manager 1602 (Current Branch). Unfortunately the option the use the same Software Update Group over and over again is missing:

  • ConfigMgr 1602 – Windows 10 Servicing “Error 3”

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    Today I solved my Problem with the Service Plan of my Environment, it always ended up with the following Error in the Patchdownloader.log, this Log usually reside in “C:\Program Files\SMS_CCM\Logs”: Failed to move C:\Windows\TEMP\CABD212.tmp to \\deheim.hosebei.ch\hosebeiDFSroot\Deployment\Packages\_UpdatePackages\20160116 – Win10x64\9a30f732-4d40-4b56-b86b-8253f80868a1.1\10586.0.160212-2000.th2_refresh_CLIENTENTERPRISE_VOL_x64fre_en-us.esd, error 3 Software Updates Patch Downloader 26.03.2016 19:16:01 7780 (0x1E64) Will retry in 5000ms Software Updates Patch…

  • ConfigMgr – Create Device Collections based on Windows 10 Build

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    Hey, You might come to the same spot, where you would like to split your Windows 10 devices into different collections based on the Windows 10 Version. I will show to you, how easy you can achieve that, but let me say first, that this could be implemented from Microsoft Out-Of-The-Box. If you are using…

  • Windows 10 – Language Packs localization for Built-In Groups

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    Since the deployments of Windows 10 take more and more steam on, new adventures are rising up. The last one I’ve seen, was the fact, that a deployed Windows 10 Enterprise 1511 en-US with included language packs is ending up with localized named Built-In Groups, when selected another User Interface, than en-US.

  • ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 – Windows 10 installed on X:

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    You are looking for a easy solution, to get a wim-File, copied directly from the Microsoft source, installed to the Computers drive C:? Here you get it!