Updated for 20H2: Windows 10 gets better with every release
With each release, Windows 10 improves from a security, productivity, and manageability perspective. But the underlying message, and what makes it all possible, is the agility and unbelievable engineering innovation that simplifies the servicing process for the IT Pro. Delivering on my promise to make it a habit to share the better together slides with each release, the version attached to this post covers IT innovations through Windows 10, version 20H2--and the end of service (EOS) date for each feature set so you don't get too close to hitting EOS for any of the devices in your estate. Stay tuned for the next update!
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Can anyone able to identify why it appears when opening Task Manager from Windows 10! Its intermittent Issues. Task Manager ""The code execution cannot proceed because edgegdi.dll was not found. Please add your inputs! Note - This issue appears in random models running with Window 10 Version 2004, also seen during opening up Windows Settings, Event Viewer in machines.Announcing a Windows as a service AMA on May 4th!
We are very excited to announce an upcoming opportunity to 'Ask Microsoft Anything' (AMA) about Windows as a service! The AMA will take place on Thursday, May 4, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT in the Windows as a service AMA space. An AMA is a live online event similar to a "YamJam" on Yammer or an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit. The Windows as a service AMA will give you the opportunity to connect with members of the Windows product and engineering teams, who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback. Don't forgot to add the event to your calendar. We hope to see you there!Office hours are closed: November 19, 2020
Office hours are now closed. We hope we were able to answer your questions and provide tips and resources to help you more easily manage Windows 10 updates and your Windows device estate. The experts and engineers who supported today's session were: Windows as a service strategies, tactics, best practices: Dave Backman and James Bell Windows 10 deployment: Steve Thomas Cloud-based update management, Windows Update for Business: Aria Carley Dynamic Update: Steve DiAcetis Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Joe Lurie Microsoft Endpoint Manager (public sector, CMG, etc.): Danny Guillory Product feedback: Kevin Mineweaser FastTrack: Sean McLaren Save the date for future events Our next office hours event will take place on Thursday, December 17th, 9:00-10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Add it to your calendar. For an up-to-date list of future events, see the Windows IT Pro Blog. See you next time!
Windows 10 Start Menu
Windows 10 works really well in the BYOD space, but the predominant model of usage in U.K. Schools is still shared desktops and will be for some time. We'd love to have a start menu that could be applied consistently, and be reliable in those deployment scenarios. We see a lot of either start menu being blank, or nothing happening when shortcuts in the menu are clicked on, or just crashing needing a restart to correct. Are there any plans for the start menu?Windows office hours: June 17, 2021
Post your questions for our next office hours session, which will take place here in the Windows servicing community on Thursday, June 17th from 9:00-10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Join us to get answers to any questions you may have around managing updates for the remote and onsite devices in your organization, help with specific issues, and tips on how to increase update velocity. We'll have members of the Windows and Microsoft Endpoint Manager product and engineering teams on hand, as well as the FastTrack team. Save the date and see the Windows IT Pro Blog for full details. Let's get started!Map OneDrive for Business
As an education customer, it is becoming essential to find a way to map a users OneDrive for Business to a drive letter to present to users on their shared Windows devices in order to leverage the work anywhere, on any device and collaborative features that ODfB affords us. Disk space on SANs is a premium, and so we cannot afford to use sync or offline files. With the drastic reduction in education funding and thanks to Brexit, £1,000,000 is now worth $1, being able to use ODfB in place of traditional home folders is now crucial to being able to realise a 21st Century pedagogy model. Could this feature be implemented for Windows 10 and through group policy as well as InTune for Education please?
Latest LCU not detected from WSUS if corresponding SSU preinstalled
Hi, for a few months now, the SSU is bundled with the LCU. I have noticed that, if the bundled SSU is manually preinstalled with e.g. DISM, the corresponding LCU portion will no longer be detected as applicable from WSUS! It will however be detected if I scan against WU directly. WSUS will even show the entire bundle as installed for clients which only have the SSU portion installed! This doesn't seem like a common scenario, however it becomes a huge problem if a device does a feature upgrade (from media or WSUS, doesn't matter) from an older version (<= 1909) to 20H2, with the "/DynamicUpdate NoLCU" option enabled. What seems to happen is, Windows Setup does not, as instructed, download and apply the latest LCU, but will still download and apply the latest SSU! This results in an installation that's effectively stuck at the LCU of the upgrade media used (currently 2020-11 for the WSUS upgrade package) and cannot upgrade to the current LCU, if WSUS is used as the only update source - at least until a newer LCU is released and approved. And since SSUs cannot be uninstalled, there is no easy workaround for affected machines. I don't know if anyone from the WSUS team reads this, but there seems to be a faulty "is installed" detection logic in the SSU+LCU bundles published to WSUS, that needs to be addressed asap. Right now I have 35 Windows 10 clients stuck at the November '20 LCU, unable to upgrade. Can anybody else confirm this problem? Regards, MarkusWindows office hours are open: March 18, 2021
Welcome to office hours! To submit a question, click "Start a New Discussion" here in the Windows servicing space--and do this for each new question. We are here for the next hour to answer any questions you may have around managing Windows 10 updates, deployments, and devices (remote or on-prem)—and to provide help with specific issues as well as tips on how to increase update velocity. Here is a list of who is in the virtual office today: Windows as a service strategies, tactics, best practices: Dave Backman, Namrata Bachwani Windows management and servicing: Joe Lurie Windows update monitoring and reporting: Charles Inglis Windows setup: Steve DiAcetis Expediting updates in Microsoft Endpoint Manager: David Guyer Windows 10 deployment: Steve Thomas Cloud-based update management, Windows Update for Business: Aria Carley Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Jason Sandys Microsoft Endpoint Manager (public sector, CMG, tenant attach, etc.): Danny Guillory Configuration Manager: Rob York Windows Autopilot: Heena Macwan Security: Rick Munck Expediting updates in Microsoft Intune: David Guyer If you have an issue or question you'd prefer not to discuss publicly, simply click on the name of the person you'd like to speak with, then select Message in the top-right corner to send a direct message. Let's get started! Save the date for future events Our next, regularly scheduled office hours event will take place on Thursday, April 15th, 9:00-10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Add it to your calendara. For an up-to-date list of future events, see the Windows IT Pro Blog.
