Technology Solutions for Everyday Folks

July 2024 Archive

Basic Dialog to Manually Name OSD Task Sequence Device

July 29, 2024
3 minutes
inspiration, tech

Many years ago I wrote about the way I automatically generate the OSDComputerName value for most devices in my fleet. Much of that process remains as it did back then, but I've never written about how I handle the one-offs (such as my testing VMs or other nonstandard hardware).

Screen snip of a successful Windows 11 Enterprise KMS Activation

July 08, 2024
4 minutes
mistakes, tech

If you work with a lot of disparate dev and test devices across different domains, tenants, etc., you might run into the sort of Windows activation issue I encounter. In particular, when I'm doing dev/test work using physical hardware in my lab space (for things like OSD or OSDCloud), these machines wind up managed by my dev/test tenants/environments, and thus not pointing at our production KMS server for Windows activation.