Microsoft rolled out a Cumulative Update for Windows 10 – KB3081424 today. It downloaded and tried to install – got about 30% of the way through, rebooted and then went through a number of reboot cycles to uninstall the changes. An article here http://news.softpedia.com/news/windows-10-cumulative-update-kb3081424-fails-to-install-stuck-in-reboot-loop-488638.shtml suggested that deleting keys related to orphaned profiles (users no […]
One change in WMF 5.0 that I hadn’t got round to testing was the speed up in COM based operations. COM – Component Object Model – was the Microsoft programming model before .NET. Its old but still around – the interfaces for Internet Explorer and Office are all COM based for instance. WMF […]
The way Windows updates are going to be delivered is changing – you should read this – http://blogs.technet.com/b/uktechnet/archive/2015/07/13/windows-10-licensing-logic.aspx – to understand what it means for you and your organization
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One thing I noticed after performing the recent upgrade to Windows 10 was that my network connection had become unstable. It was losing the DNS server configuration on an irregular and intermittent basis. Renewing the DHCP lease on my wireless connection would correct the issue. My Windows 8.1 install had Hyper-V enabled which modifies […]
The July 2015 puzzle can be found here: http://powershell.org/wp/2015/07/04/2015-july-scripting-games-puzzle/ Write a one-liner that produces the following output (note that property values will be different from computer to computer; that’s fine). PSComputerName ServicePackMajorVersion Version BIOSSerial ————– ———————– ——- ———- win81 0 6.3.9600 VMware-56 4d 09 1 71 dd a9 d0 e6 46 9f By […]