Out of Office Hours

6 min read 2021-12-09 04:44:08

Trying out Proxmox VE, an open-source virtualization platform

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

1 min read 2021-11-17 05:33:57

With today’s release of Windows 10 21H2 (a fairly boring release overall as there aren’t really any significant new features — thankfully it

1 min read 2021-11-05 07:38:25

I spent a good portion of my career focused on managing and deploying Windows devices. Since most organizations have a lot of these, it made sense

1 min read 2021-10-28 00:13:30

In the original Windows 11 preview builds, the documentation published at the time only covered the OEM process for customizing the Start menu. The

1 min read 2021-10-25 23:10:55

One of the biggest changes in Windows 10 was the move to cumulative updates. With this change, a lot of the nightmares that IT pros had with Windows

1 min read 2021-10-21 04:01:07

As I noted in a previous blog post, Windows will now enforce the TPM 2.0 requirement for virtual machines with the latest Insider builds.

1 min read 2021-10-05 06:47:24

Windows 11 is now officially available, as expected. (While it’s not yet October 5th in all of the world, it was made available when it became the

1 min read 2021-09-19 13:14:48

I walked through all of the Windows 11 hardware requirements in my previous post, and I thought that was the last we’d have to look at that for a

1 min read 2021-09-08 01:42:24

With the announcements of Windows 11, Microsoft disclosed new hardware requirements for Windows 11, which has easily become the most controversial

1 min read 2021-08-26 14:15:45

Updated inline to reflect recent updates, marked [2021-08-31]. Quick summary: Make sure you install KB5005104 or a more recent cumulative update to

1 min read 2021-08-26 05:02:09

I hope all of you are using UEFI-based systems by this point. (For those still using BIOS emulation, it’s time to let it go.) So you probably

1 min read 2021-08-05 05:27:03

Back in March, I posted about the actual size of Windows 10 images over time, which resulted in the table below. Windows 10 releaseWIM sizeWindows 10

1 min read 2021-08-03 20:06:09

In my previous post, I estimated/guessed the price of the various Windows 365 configurations available from Microsoft for cloud PCs. As of August

1 min read 2021-07-26 23:49:52

After my previous post talking about the new Windows 365 service, a number of people pointed out that the Amazon WorkSpaces offering was very

1 min read 2021-07-24 01:19:34

With the recent announcement of the Windows 365 service for delivering “Cloud PCs” to users in enterprise and SMBs, I can put on my analyst hat