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Factory Reset Windows 10 without user intervention
I've looked for this answer online and have come across the "systemreset -factoryreset" command which works, but it comes up with the prompt asking if I want to keep my files or remove everything, I want to remove everything, but without the prompt. We are not doing this from any pre-exiting images, and our laptops are running the pre-loaded Windows 10 Pro install, we are just using the in-built Windows 10 "reset this PC" feature as we have no MDM configured. We just want the laptops to be totally reset so they don't contain any company information, we're not bothered about completing the OOBE once they are wiped. We are trying to accomplish this remotely as our users are all at home, so I need to automate it and have no user involvement in the process, I just want it to factory reset, and bring the laptop up to the off-the-shelf state configuration. We have the facility to push commands and scripts to the laptops so was hoping to do this via powershell. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks
Deployment best practices
I would like to ask a question about the deployment process. My organization is still struggling to come to grips with how best to deploy Windows 10. We are an educational institution, so you may find 40 or more gigabytes worth of additional applications that we need to install in the image. What is your recommendation fora flowchart in how to handle this type of scenario?Windows AutoPilot: An introduction
If you haven't checked it out yet, Windows AutoPilot enables you toset up and pre-configure new Windows 10 devices for your organization, right out of the box, without imaging, with no infrastructure to manage. It can also be used to easilyreset, repurpose and recover existing devices.The best part? Yourusers can go through the process independently, without making any decisions and without needing to involve IT. Want to learn more? Read Modernizing Windows deployment with Windows AutoPilot, watch the short technical walkthrough below, and register for the webcast andlive Q&Aon Thursday, July 27th. https://youtu.be/4K4hC5NchbEWelcome to the Windows 10 deployment AMA!
We will spend this hour discussing Windows 10 deployment scenarios, best practices, tips and tricks with the Windows product and engineering teams. Please submit each question by clicking "Start a new conversation"in thisWindows 10 deployment group so we can easily identify and answer them. If you are looking for help with a specific issue, please visit the Windows IT Pro forums on TechNet. After the event, we will make a summary of the AMA and post it to the group. To get started, please introduce yourself as a replybelow!When replacing PCs, how are you migrating files and settings from old to new PCs?
Trying to get a feel for what people are using for migrating the file contents from users' old PCs to their new PCs in large scale deployments (can be to Windows 10 or other versions). What do you do now? 1. Use ConfigMgr OSD and its built-in USMT integration. 2. Use MDT with USMT 3. Use USMT standalone 4. Use PCMover 5. I've built a copy script 6. My users are expected to migrate their own data 7. Everyone is on OneDrive, Box, or Dropbox, so everything they want to keep is already in the cloud
Windows 10 1903 Group Policy Issues after OSD
Hi, We've recently started deploying Windows 10 1903 (First Win 10 version too...) with SCCM 1902 with MDT and group policy appears to apply, according to the logs but then we find certain settings not actually applied, even though a gpresult shows them as being applied. Checking the various reg keys etc. for our policy settings on a client, I have seen that all of our GPO settings get applied and thensome but not allget mysteriously removed, for example the Interactive Logon message gets applied but then removed, as in the registry value is removed. Running a gpupdate /force after this has happened, appears to fix the issue. Howeverusing the SMSTSPostAction variable to run a script or command to update Group Policy, doesn't work either, the script/command runs (As per log files) but the above does still occur until we run a gpupdate /force (A ordinary gpupdate does nothing, so most of the time reboots etc. do nothing). We have no Group Policy related Group Policy settings (As in the ones that control whether CSEs process during slow links etc. and whether they process even though there are no changes) and we cannot find any other reason for this not to work correctly. I think until we find a fix, using the RunOnce reg key/value maybe the workaround... Would someone at Microsoft be able to confirm whether this is a confirmed issue at Microsoft and whether there is a fix for it please? Or if there is a fix incoming as potentially some of our security related GPOs are not being correctly applied. Many thanks, Luke
Removing UWP apps from the 1709 Build
Originally we were going with LTSB but decided to add more flexibility to our image by going with CB/CBB but the apps are annoying and reinforces all the reasons we started off with LTSB. There must be some easier ways to remove Games, XBOX and other apps/features that we don not want our end users to see or access?
