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Sailor,

while Microsoft put a temporary hold on releasing new features for Windows Insiders earlier this week, they are still rollling out new builds where they focus on bashing bugs. The company released build 14367 to the fast ring for PC and mobile late Thursday (June 16, 2016).

Within this build Microsoft released a “Refresh Windows” tool:

“A new tool to give your PC a fresh start: We’ve heard from many of you that are attempting to perform a clean installation of Windows that it can sometimes be hard to get started. To help, we are providing a new tool that enables an easy and simple way to start fresh with a clean installation of Windows. This tool is now available from the Settings app for Windows Insiders using the latest builds that installs a clean copy of the most recent version of Windows10 and removes apps that were installed on your PC. ” wrote Dona Sarkar in the announcement for Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14367 

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Pirate,

the story for both browsers is “better together” thats why Microsoft released a tool called: “Enterprise Mode Site List Manager for Windows 10“. With this tool you can configure the enterprise mode site list an decide which site will be opened in which browser and which compatibility mode.

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Ahoy Matey,

lately I had a great workshop at a customer site, where we talked about Windows 10 browsing options meaning Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 in detail. I would love to tell you that everything is working perfectly and is well documented here but …well. Nevertheless, we can talk about it.

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Ahoy Pirate!

in my last post I wrote about the four levels of telemetry – what each level does and what it reports. Let’s now have a look on how you can reduce the level of transmission as a normal client and in enterprise business.

To wrap up the general stuff again:

• the “Security” level is only available in Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10 Education and Windows 10 IoT Core editions.
• the default level is “Full” for Windows 10 Home and Professional and
• the default level is “Enhanced” for Enterprise edition.
• On a device that is running an Insider preview edition, this value is set to “Full” and can only be changed by installing a released version.

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Ahoy Pirate,

Windows 10 is one of the most or maybe the most communicative operating system ever released. As we all know it is important for Microsoft to collect this data to improve the future quality of the operating system. Maybe thats why it collects the data by default. Nevertheless there might be some cases where you need to reduce or disable the level of communication. Today I will tell you how.

So lets start up with the question what is telemetry?

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Pirate,

this is part 3 of my provisioning package series:

• Part 1: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Overview
• Part 2: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Installation Imaging and Creation Designer
• Part 3: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Frequently Asked Questions
• Part 4: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Install a single Application
• Part 5: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Install multiple Applications
• Part 6: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Install and Remove Applications and Apps by PowerShell

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Pirate,

this is part 2 of my provisioning package series. In this part we will have a look on how to install the Imaging and Creation Designer out of the Windows 10 ADK.

• Part 1: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Overview
• Part 2: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Installation Imaging and Creation Designer
• Part 3: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Frequently Asked Questions
• Part 4: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Install a single Application
• Part 5: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Install multiple Applications
• Part 6: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Install and Remove Applications and Apps by PowerShell

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Ahoy Pirate,

this is part 1 of my provisioning package series:

• Part 1: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Overview
• Part 2: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Installation Imaging and Creation Designer
• Part 3: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Frequently Asked Questions
• Part 4: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Install a single Application
• Part 5: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Install multiple Applications
• Part 6: Windows 10 – Provisioning Packages – Install and Remove Applications and Apps by PowerShell

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Ahoey,

the way we’ve decided to install Office 2103 within a recent project includes the Viewer for Visio documents. So normally when you open a drawing with Visio Viewer, the drawing appears inside an Internet Explorer window. Technically the Visio Viewer implements and ActiveX control which renders Visio Drwaings inside IE. The pages are available as tabs along the bottom of the viewer. But after the uninstallation of the old version and the installation of Office 2013 there was no file association to the viewer. What needed to be done was to set the Visio viewer as default viewer.

This can be done easily by modifing the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vsd]
“Content Type”=”application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer”
@=”VisioViewer.Viewer”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vst]
“Content Type”=”application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer”
@=”VisioViewer.Viewer”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vdx]
“Content Type”=”application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer”
@=”VisioViewer.Viewer”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vss]
“Content Type”=”application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer”
@=”VisioViewer.Viewer”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vst]
“Content Type”=”application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer”
@=”VisioViewer.Viewer”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vsx]
“Content Type”=”application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer”
@=”VisioViewer.Viewer”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vtx]
“Content Type”=”application/vnd.ms-visio.viewer”
@=”VisioViewer.Viewer”

This issue very often appears if you remove Visio Standard 2010 and don’t install any later version. We then inserted a step within the task sequence which takes over this task by running the migration from Office 2010 to Office 2013.

This solved it for us in general.

Cheers

*Captain