Want to break your WSUS? Don’t install KB 3095113 for Windows 10 upgrades

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Joseph Moody is an admin for a public school and helps manage 5,500 PCs. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Software Packaging, Distribution, and Servicing. He blogs at DeployHappiness.com.

Microsoft released KB 3095113 to enable future Windows 10 feature upgrades. Whether you will deploy upgrades or not, you need to know what this hotfix does and how not applying it can break WSUS.

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Joseph MoodyMVP

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Joseph Moody is an admin for a public school and helps manage 5,500 PCs. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Software Packaging, Distribution, and Servicing. He blogs at DeployHappiness.com.

Microsoft released KB 3095113 to enable future Windows 10 feature upgrades. Whether you will deploy upgrades or not, you need to know what this hotfix does and how not applying it can break WSUS.

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Is the default Active Directory password policy good?

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Michael Pietroforte is the founder and editor of 4sysops. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 30 years of experience in system administration.

One of the first things I do after I set up a new domain is change the default Active Directory password policy. If you didn’t do this, you have a security problem. In addition, you are wasting your organization’s money.

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Michael PietroforteMVP

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Michael Pietroforte is the founder and editor of 4sysops. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 30 years of experience in system administration.

One of the first things I do after I set up a new domain is change the default Active Directory password policy. If you didn’t do this, you have a security problem. In addition, you are wasting your organization’s money.

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Starting File Explorer from PowerShell in the current folder

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Wolfgang Sommergut has over 20 years of experience in IT journalism. He has also worked as a system administrator and as a tech consultant. Today he runs the German publication WindowsPro.de.

Even if you prefer working at a command prompt, in some cases you might want to switch to the GUI. For example, File Explorer might be more efficient if you have to work with a large number of files that you can’t simply select with a pattern such as *.txt. In such a scenario you probably want to open File Explorer from PowerShell at a specific destination folder.

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Wolfgang Sommergut

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Wolfgang Sommergut has over 20 years of experience in IT journalism. He has also worked as a system administrator and as a tech consultant. Today he runs the German publication WindowsPro.de.

Even if you prefer working at a command prompt, in some cases you might want to switch to the GUI. For example, File Explorer might be more efficient if you have to work with a large number of files that you can’t simply select with a pattern such as *.txt. In such a scenario you probably want to open File Explorer from PowerShell at a specific destination folder.

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Convert EXE to MSI with EMCO MSI Package Builder 6

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Joseph Moody is an admin for a public school and helps manage 5,500 PCs. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Software Packaging, Distribution, and Servicing. He blogs at DeployHappiness.com.

Version 6 of EMCO MSI Package Builder includes Windows 10 MSI compatibility and a streamlined UI, and it makes driver/application deployment much easier. In December, EMCO offers a 20% discount.

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Joseph MoodyMVP

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Joseph Moody is an admin for a public school and helps manage 5,500 PCs. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Software Packaging, Distribution, and Servicing. He blogs at DeployHappiness.com.

Version 6 of EMCO MSI Package Builder includes Windows 10 MSI compatibility and a streamlined UI, and it makes driver/application deployment much easier. In December, EMCO offers a 20% discount.

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Disable lock screen password

Michael PietroforteMVP

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Michael Pietroforte is the founder and editor of 4sysops. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 30 years of experience in system administration.

In some environments, you will want to disable the lock screen because frequent password re-entries reduce your productivity.

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Michael PietroforteMVP

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Michael Pietroforte is the founder and editor of 4sysops. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 30 years of experience in system administration.

In some environments, you will want to disable the lock screen because frequent password re-entries reduce your productivity.

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