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GEEKING OUT: OFFLINE DOMAIN JOIN

By Michael Niehaus on March 15, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Way back in 2009, with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, a
new feature was added called “offline domain join” (ODJ for short). Initially,
the feature wasn’t understood […]


DO YOU PROPERLY WIPE YOUR DISKS (MAYBE FOLLOWING US GOVERNMENT STANDARDS)?

By Michael Niehaus on March 9, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

This is one of those topics that I’ve been in the middle of for years. “Can you
tell me how to properly wipe a disk before we dispose of or return this […]


WANT TO REFRESH A WINDOWS 11 DEVICE? DON’T USE USMT.

By Michael Niehaus on March 8, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )

It’s a process I’ve done hundreds of times: wipe-and-load an existing device
with a new Windows OS image, using USMT to capture documents and settings,
migrating them forward to the new clean […]


BARE METAL PROVISIONING: BOOT OPTIONS

By Michael Niehaus on March 5, 2022

When we were first looking at implementing bare metal provisioning as part of
what became the Tanium Provision module, we were already into the Covid-19
pandemic work-from-home mindset. So, we expanded our […]


AUTOMATICALLY JOIN DEVICES TO AZURE AD

By Michael Niehaus on March 4, 2022

It started off as a simple task: Create a provisioning package that can be used
to join a device to Azure AD. But when it comes to using the Windows
Configuration Designer, […]


M1 MAC VIRTUALIZATION: PARALLELS DESKTOP VS. VMWARE FUSION

By Michael Niehaus on February 26, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

I have a Mac Mini with the original ARM-based M1 chip. Not surprisingly, the
first thing I wanted to do on it was to run virtual machines. (You might think
the first […]


WINDOWS 11 INCLUDES NEW BCD POWERSHELL CMDLETS

By Michael Niehaus on February 15, 2022

When configuring the Windows boot configuration database (BCD), we’ve always had
BCDEDIT.EXE, which is a reasonable tool to use but not a lot of fun to automate,
e.g. finding and removing a […]


FIXING POWERSHELL ON WINDOWS PE FOR ARM64

By Michael Niehaus on February 7, 2022

In past blog posts, I noted that the ADK for Windows 10 started adding ARM64
builds of Windows PE, but they were missing some key things: no HTA support, and
busted .NET […]


THE OVERHEAD OF EDGE ON WINDOWS 11 (AND 10)

By Michael Niehaus on January 31, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

I noticed while looking at the WebView2 processes on Windows 11 that there was
also a set of Edge processes running from the moment I logged in: I understand
why that happens […]


THE OVERHEAD OF WIDGETS AND TEAMS IN WINDOWS 11

By Michael Niehaus on January 30, 2022 • ( 5 Comments )

When you sign into an unmodified Windows 11 installation, you may notice the
side-by-side icons for the Chat app (basically an entry point for the consumer
version of Teams — the one […]


GEEKING OUT: NETWORK BOOTING

By Michael Niehaus on January 26, 2022

When we started working on Tanium Provision, one of the things we needed to
build was a mechanism to do network booting. It’s fine to boot from a USB key
(and necessary […]


WINDOWS 11: WHEN 4GB IS NOT 4GB

By Michael Niehaus on January 25, 2022

Funny story: I was trying to test out some Windows 11 upgrade scenarios and had
configured a VM with 4GB of RAM since that’s the minimum required to support
Windows 11. With […]


UPGRADING TO WINDOWS 11 WITH TANIUM

By Michael Niehaus on January 24, 2022

I’ve always known that Tanium supported doing in-place upgrades to later
versions of Windows, but since I had been focused primarily on Tanium provision
for bare metal imaging, I had never actually […]


INTRODUCING TANIUM PROVISION

By Michael Niehaus on January 22, 2022

Most people remember that I left Microsoft and joined Tanium a while back. One
of the things I’ve been working on at Tanium was publicly announced this week,
with a Go-Tanium YouTube […]


YOU CAN BYPASS THE WINDOWS 11 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT CHECK, BUT IT’S NOT A GOOD
IDEA

By Michael Niehaus on January 22, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )

2021-01-25: Edited to reflect that settings that worked on Insider Preview
builds no longer work with the released Windows 11 RTM builds. Microsoft
implemented some new hardware requirements for Windows 11, and […]


WHAT’S NEW IN WINDOWS 11, PART 2

By Michael Niehaus on December 29, 2021

Part 1 was rather lengthy, covering the UI changes in Windows 11. We’ll start
off part 2 by looking at the changes to the Windows apps. Yes, these are also UI
changes. […]


WHAT’S NEW IN WINDOWS 11, PART 1

By Michael Niehaus on December 29, 2021

I did a presentation at a couple of events in October and November that went
through a fairly lengthy list of new features in Windows 11. This builds on the
information that […]


HOW DOES UEFI BOOT FROM A CD?

By Michael Niehaus on December 25, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

In a past post about UEFI, I talked about the boot process: The UEFI firmware
looks for a FAT32 disk volume that contains a specific file, e.g.
EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi, and it loads that […]


YES, WINDOWS AS A SUBSCRIPTION

By Michael Niehaus on December 25, 2021

I’m sure all of you remember when Windows as a Service was introduced with
Windows 10. Most people thought this was really “Windows as a Subscription” and
that Microsoft was somehow going […]


TRYING OUT PROXMOX VE, AN OPEN-SOURCE VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM

By Michael Niehaus on December 8, 2021

I had a specific need (more on that later) that could be satisfied with
solutions such as QEMU (an open-source machine emulator that can do all sorts of
interesting things) and KVM […]


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