Greig Mitchell

IT systems/security engineer studying Cyber Security. I also skateboard, play guitar and drink a lot of coffee. All opinion’s are my own.

[Greig Mitchell @Mitchell90]

@MyNameIsMurray Oh great. Over 2,600 of our staff are front line workers who aren’t the most technical and will call up the helpdesk at the slightest change.

This is going to be madness.

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@douglasjamesgr2 @FemaleScotlandV @muirsy1 @RestoreBritain_ Someone needs to give them a good thud. They won’t be so smart then!

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@UK_Daniel_Card We used to do TPM + PIN on laptops when they were joined to on-premises AD but since moving to Enrta/Intune for all devices we switched to TPM only as it would have been a pain to manage on 500+ devices

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@zacbowden Even to this day Aero still looks clean and modern. Everything that’s came after just looks crap.

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@MyNameIsMurray @NathanMcNulty Not to mention that a few lines in PS is now much more convoluted with Graph. I much preferred the older modules to quickly get things done.

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@vkrajacic @thomasklemenc Or you could just replace Task Manager with Sysinternals Process Explorer which gives far more details.

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I’m guessing I picked the wrong time to buy NVMe drives for an upcoming Proxmox build lab. 🙈 Does anyone know the best cost effective drives to get at the moment?

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@zacbowden @bs_blackscout I think that’s understandable. Been using Windows for 26+ years including administering it in corporate IT and I don’t remember quality being this bad for as long (Apart from Longhorn)

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@rinocore I would say the Win7 is the last time MS had a consistent UI throughout the OS. (Although most of the work was already done in Vista)

Everything since has been an utter mash up of all versions together which started with Windows 8.0.

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@ricsip82 @BitsUndBolts I don’t recall any slowdowns being introduced in SP3 while running on the same hardware.

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@techspence @PyroTek3 Endpoint Isolation via Windows Firewall is a good way to secure management protocols. Restrict them to PAWs or admin jump servers with IPSec and authentication. Also applies to RDP even with MFA.

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@57Deek @brockpierson Ehh no machines running Vista shipped with 256MB. 512MB was the minimum but you really needed 1GB+ along with a DX9 capable GPU for Aero and decent performance. Ran it during Beta to RTM and didn’t have many issues. SP1 fixed most things.

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@phantomofearth Windows is a UI design consistency shitshow at the moment. It’s been like there since Windows 8 and just gotten worse.

Vista and 7 were the last versions which had a consistent design throughout.

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@Chris123NT I doubt it, most of the components are made elsewhere anyway for a start. Even Cisco’s switch ASICs and chassis aren’t made in the US lol

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@TheDilemmaLama @WindowsLatest @FUDdaily No, because it’s actually incredibly important. The vast majority of devices these days use a TPM to secure the hardware and credentials including Android, iOS etc. Hardware from -pre-2018 is already 8+ years old at this point.

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@NeowinFeed Ehh I’m pretty sure SCCM uses unattended.xml configurations for OSD. I hope they aren’t forcing Autopilot down orgs throats because it sucks.

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@techspence Wait so no GPO set to block users from changing the corporate desktop wallpaper? :)

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@Sebocat @techspence This is the way 👍

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@zacbowden Now they just need to fix the horrible perf issues within the Shell UX.