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Managing reserved storage in Windows 10 environments

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Steve_DiAcetis
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Apr 09, 2020
To help you facilitate a “hands free” Windows 10 update experience for your users, Microsoft introduced a feature called reserved storage with Windows 10, version 1903. Enabled by default on newly ma...
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vsterkin
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Apr 10, 2020

Hi Steve_DiAcetis ,

 

Thanks for the announcement. Could you please clarify a couple of points?

 

> With the upcoming release of Windows 10, version 2004, we’re introducing a new set of commands to help manage reserved storage

> To enable reserved storage on a device running Windows 10, version 1903 or later,

If this management feature comes in 20H1, how is it supposed to work in 1903 and 1909? Are you going to release a Windows Update to backport the feature to older Windows versions?

 

>on disk-space-constrained devices, enabling reserved storage will leave the user space and will only take the minimum—which is 2% of system volume capacity or 3GB of disk space, whichever is lower

Disk-space-constrained is an interesting word (albeit still much shorter than Get-WindowsReservedStorageState:)

1. Can you define the term clearly please? What's the actual threshold in terms of GB or the percentage of free disk space that makes a device disk-space-constrained?

2. Does this behavior apply to 1903+ or 2004+ only?

 

Thanks,

Vadim