Microsoft has blocked hands-free WDS deployment on Windows 11 and Server 2025 to patch CVE-2026-0386, with full enforcement arriving in April 2026.

Microsoft took the wraps off its Windows AutoPilot service for setting up, resetting, and recovering devices last summer. This week, Lenovo provided an update on its implementation plans for Windows ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Microsoft has pulled back on a plan to automatically push its Copilot app onto Windows 11 devices, reversing course after ...

The last time I set up our Server 2012R2-based WDS server, I somehow got it to automatically fill in the server/share name prompt the clients see after they PXE boot. After installing the necessary ...

Peter Dunn is a seasoned technology and cybersecurity leader with over 25 years of experience driving digital transformation, AI integration and zero-trust initiatives across federal agencies and ...

Windows Autopatch is a new automatic updates service for enterprise Windows customers that will manage all software, firmware, driver, and enterprise app updates, Microsoft said on April 5. Windows ...

In the first installment in this series, I showed you how to install the software that is required for creating a custom Windows deployment image, as well as how to ...

The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 Update 1 solution was released on Monday, with notable support for Windows 10 deployments. The toolkit can be downloaded from this page. Previously, it was just ...

If most of your employees work from home, upgrading them to the latest Windows Feature Update will be challenging. The IT staff won’t be physically around those computers to fix the problems. In this ...