Friday, August 19, 2016

Microsoft is changing how Windows Updates work...

This is a very interesting development, not sure how this will affect me yet as an SCCM admin but (on the surface) the idea of them back-porting the Cumulative Update model for Windows 10 to Windows 7/8.1 sounds fantastic. Personally? This time next year I hope to have all Windows 10 clients in my infrastructure anyway but if that doesn't happen then at least this should make supporting older clients much easier:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/further-simplifying-servicing-model-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1/

Does this mean my SUGs will shrink down to a single update per OS?!!! Almost certainly not but we shall see....

Thursday, August 18, 2016

I'm still here!

Apologies for the recent lack of updates. My company is currently undergoing a big reorganization and I'm finding I don't have a lot of free time for new posts. I'm still heavily involved with SCCM administration though and am currently working to roll out Windows 10 v1607 and spinning up a brand new SCCM server to support it. Lots of lessons learned and tons of potential new post ideas are springing from these efforts. Hopefully I can get some new content here soon. In the meantime I have been and am more than happy to answer questions in the comments sections of other posts. Keep those coming guys! Love helping out my fellow admins!