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Guidance on multiple window 10 builds and baselines
Hey Rick_Munck
I've been looking for the blog post talking about which version of the baseline to apply, but I can't seem to find it. Would you have a direct link to it? I've seen the comments saying to always apply the latest (and greatest!), but it would be great to be able to reference an actual post instead of comments, when asked about it 🙂
ixniz the comments in this thread are accurate about testing and using the latest but there isn't a dedicated blog on that topic yet. We do plan to release a blog just not sure when we will be able to get it completed.
- Rick_MunckOct 05, 2022
Microsoft
Martin_Wildi sadly no, I would love to give you a timeline as to when it will release but we have been consumed with other baselines / events. The guidance above still stands. Here is a snip from the blog we have in the works.
Filtering the Policies
We most commonly see WMI filtering for applying baselines, while there are individuals out there who would rather do direct OU linking of the GPOs or security groups, we feel that adds additional workload and complexity and as long as you are smart with your WMI queries you shouldn’t have an issue. There are some WMI classes that are not optimized for querying, Win32_Product as an example. Should you use one of those classes you will see a performance impact as documented here. We have several extremely large customers using this method and it has been solid over the years.
Documentation for creating basic Windows WMI filters can be found here. To further scope down the filtering to just a particular version of Windows you can use the version information found here and expand the query.
- Martin_WildiSep 29, 2022Brass ContributorAny news on the blog post? We're waiting since 2020 😉