Windows 10

In today’s Ask the Admin, I look at how Microsoft is preparing to release the Windows 10 November 2019 Update (19H2) and plans to service the May and November 2019 updates together. Insider for Business customers can also get prerelease support.

This month is light on security fixes and there are no zero-days but there are still plenty of critical flaws that need patching.

This month sees Microsoft designate Windows 10 1903 ready for broad deployment, BitLocker no longer trust SSDs that have built-in hardware encryption, Windows 10 reach 900 million devices, and much more.

Collections has made it to the Dev channel for Microsoft Edge Insiders. In this Ask the Admin, I look at how Collections works and where it might be useful.

How to configure Windows and Outlook so that it works better with Windows 10 virtual desktops.

Windows 10 is approaching 1 billion active devices but Windows 7 refuses to go away.

With Google and Dell partnering to ship hardware that includes the Chrome OS Enterprise upgrade out-of-the-box, does Google’s push in the enterprise threaten Microsoft’s dominant position?

This month Windows 19H2 edges closer to a final build, Citrix releases Managed Desktops based on Windows Virtual Desktop, Windows updates break Visual Basic 6 apps, and Microsoft prepares to disable VBScript in IE11 on Windows 7 and 8.x.

Back at its Ignite conference in September 2018, Microsoft announced Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and Citrix said that it would be creating a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution based on WVD.

Microsoft adds the ability to install Win32 applications using Intune in Windows 10 S Mode in the 19H2 update.