If you wish to delete the recovery partition, you can do this without any third-party software. Open command prompt and then run diskpart, and then (for example): list disk; select disk 0; list partition; (carefully verify which partition is the recovery partition) select partition 4; delete partition override (override is needed as the recovery partition is protected).
If you want your users to see their company profile pictures on the Windows 10 sign-in page, here are the instructions. User photos stored in Active Directory can be used by applications like Outlook, Skype for Business (Lync) or SharePoint to display the picture of currently logged-in user in their interface. However, you can take […]
Have you ever come into the office to find that your critical line-of-business app fails to connect to your SQL server? After further investigation, you may find that your domain-joined is no longer on a “domain network” but is now on a public network. This will cause problems as a public network profile will also […]
Recently one AskVG reader “Jack Kitchen” contacted me regarding following problem: I am running Windows 7 SP1. I have this nagging problem in Device Manager, under Portable Devices. I have 6 items listed: “WPD FileSystem Volume Driver“. In their properties this message is displayed: “This device cannot start. (Code 10)“. I have searched and not […]
User photos stored in Active Directory can be used by applications like Outlook, Skype for Business (Lync) or SharePoint to display the picture of currently logged-in user in their interface. However, you can take even more advantage of Active Directory photos and use them as account pictures in Windows 10 (and other versions of Windows […]
In this weeks ‘What’s new in Microsoft Intune’ it was announced that the ability to uninstall built-in apps with an Intune configuration policy was now available, and it’s long overdue! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/fundamentals/whats-new#app-management However, it does come with some caveats: You cannot specify which apps to uninstall It’s a specific set of apps It’s all or nothing, […]
I’m happy to share some field notes and experiences with the Windows Autopilot White Glove feature which is available with the Windows 10 1903 release. I’ve done a lot of testing and engineering for a recent project which also included this brand new feature. First things first (Requirements) This is probably the most important information […]