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Windows Pro, BIOS, licensing
I have a business PC that's on Windows 10 Pro. We are putting a new NVMe drive into it and want to put Win 11 Pro onto it. No matter what we do Win 11 won't give the choice to put Pro onto it then activate the Pro key. Thought we'd be clever and put a fresh copy of Win 10 Pro onto it then upgrade to Win 11 Pro. Same deal. The Win 10 ISO no longer gives us the option to choose versions. Instead it simply throws and activated Home version onto it. We put the Pro key that we extracted from the working Win 10 Pro NVMe drive but it never switches to Win 10 Pro on the new NVMe drive. How do we get around this? I haven't found anything that works.
Expired licensing - Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 deployment lab kit
Hello: The https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/modern-desktop-deployment-and-management-lab?view=o365-worldwide licensing expired and is unusable. Please update it. It has been very useful for our organization. Thank you.
One-Button / Automated Encrypted DNS (ODoH) Example On Windows 10 / 11
This stub resolver example utilizes ODoH (DNSCrypt-Proxy 2.x), can be used in conjunction with a VPN, and an optional Caching-Only DNS / Name Server behind it. NOTE: Right-click on the following batch files after saving them, and click "Run as administrator". Use Notepad to create this file on your desktop or another folder: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openscriptlab/files/Batch_PowerShell/DNSCrypt-Proxy_Auto_Installer.bat/download[On demand] Windows cloud migration and deployment best practices
Learn how to manage your migration from traditional PCs and legacy VDI to Windows 365 Enterprise and Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs. Watch Windows cloud migration and deployment best practices – now on demand – and join the conversation at https://aka.ms/CloudMigrationPractices. To help you learn more, here are the links referenced in the session: Windows 365 Link—the first Cloud PC device for Windows 365 Learn more about Windows in the cloud Learn more about Cloud Endpoints See a Windows 365 interactive, self-service demo Learn more about Windows in the Cloud Learn more about Windows 365 Learn more about Azure Virtual Desktop Learn more about Microsoft Intune Suite Check out our assets on migration Windows IT Pro Blog: Windows 365 Migration: It’s easier than you think Join the Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop Tech Communities at Microsoft Tech Community For more free technical skilling on the latest in Windows, Windows in the cloud, and Microsoft Intune, view the full Microsoft Technical Takeoff session list.[On demand] Best practices for Windows Autopilot and device preparation
Looking for essential techniques and tips to avoid configuration issues with Windows Autopilot and Windows Autopilot device preparation deployments? Watch Best practices for Windows Autopilot and device preparation – now on demand – and join the conversation at https://aka.ms/AutopilotBestPractices. To help you learn more, here are the links referenced in the session: Windows Autopilot scenarios and capabilities | Microsoft Learn For more policies that could cause issues during Autopilot, review: What are some of the known policies that conflict with Windows Autopilot? For more free technical skilling on the latest in Windows, Windows in the cloud, and Microsoft Intune, view the full Microsoft Technical Takeoff session list.
How do I exclude certain part of email from being scanned?
Hi there, I have enabled client-side auto Sensitivity labelling for emails in a tenant for PII detection using pre-built SIT & Trainable Classifiers. However, the issue is that the Email signature automatically makes the check true and applies the label automatically, which I want to avoid. Is there a way for me to exclude the signature part of the email from being excluded? Like
Inconsistent Errors using Install-Language
I'm working on a setup script to configure a new W11 installation, and among its tasks is to install en-CA. This was working fine up until recently, when I started getting errors back from the cmdlet... the occurrence of the issue as well as the particular error codes returned are not consistent. Funny thing, I was actually having similar issues way back when I first started the script. Installing the language would fail 100% of the time, and after some time I found it seemed related specifically to the feature version and base language I was using (24H2 en-GB). I think so, at least, since it's my only explanation. Problem magically disappeared one day, bug presumably patched. But now, it's happening again. The cmdlet returns "Language pack or features could only be partially installed. Please try again." with varying error codes, and only sometimes... looking up the HRESULTs doesn't give useful information, and checking the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool and CBS logs only gives the info "install state superseded"... superseded by what, I ask! Naturally, I don't feel comfortable deploying the script when one of its major tasks has a seemingly random chance to fail, but I'm a bit lost on how to go about this. Anyone know what the deal here might be? I'm running in a VM on, as mentioned, W11 24H2 en-GB. Command is Install-Language en-CA -AsJob (parallelizing to save time). Issue started happening a few days ago with no changes to the VM or script, and persisted on a brand new VM.
MDT - Getting LapsAdmin User - Apps not getting installed
Hi, Thank you in advance for your help. If I don't join the computer to the domain, it uses local Administrator account and installs all the apps (office, adobe, etc.) correctly. Once I use the domain settings (highlighted below) it will join the domain, boots up into login screen using "LAPSAdmin" user displays "password incorrect" error, and none of the apps get installed. Thoughts? (TY) ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Settings] Priority=Default Properties=MyCustomProperty [Default] OSInstall=Y SkipCapture=YES SkipAdminPassword=YES SkipProductKey=YES SkipComputerBackup=YES SkipBitLocker=YES ;SkipComputerName=YES OSDComputerName=MDT-%SerialNumber% ;SkipDomainMembership=YES ;JoinDomain=domain.xyz.com ;DomainAdmin=admin ;DomainAdminPassword=password1 ;DomainAdminDomain=domain.xyz.com SkipUserData=YES UserDataLocation=NONE ;SkipLocaleSelection=YES InputLocale=0409:00000409 SystemLocale=en-US UILanguage=en-US UserLocale=en-US SkipTimeZone=YES TimeZoneName=Eastern Standard Time ;SkipAdminPassword=YES AdminPassword=LocalAdmin!Deployment Win11 on OEM Licence
Hello, does anyone know which Licence i need for Installing an Win 11 iso and Deploy it with MDT / WDS Creating is Free i think. The Pcs we buy have an installed Win 11 Pro for example Lenovo ThinkCentre so they have an OEM Version of Win 11 and i want to Deploy our own Win 11 Pro with Pre Installed Software. Is this included in the Win 11 Pro Version or do i need Win 11 SA or a System Builder Licence? Do i just need one Licence or for each Device one? i hope someone can help me with this Question.
Can a "Qualifying desktop OS" be paper only?
Some VL licensed Windows editions require a pre-existing "Qualifying desktop OS", which must be one of the consumer-grade editions. Question to VL experts is if that "Qualifying desktop OS" can take the form of a paper only license kept on file and reserved for filling that role . The scenarios considered are new virtual machines and clean OS install on physical hardware (which may or may not have an irrelevant OEM key in BIOS). Because installing and immediately wiping an OS image of lower quality/value on each machine would be an obvious waste of time . Also, when the VL licensed OS is an LTSC edition dated at least 1 month before install, automatic consumer grade updates to latest consumer channel version could make installing the chosen LTSC edition technically a "version downgrade in place" which tends to not work (at least for past Windows versions).
