On the current page that Adobe uses to provide Enterprise distributions of Adobe Flash Player, a new warning is at the top of the page. It states that the current page is being decommissioned on January 22nd, 2016. A new page has been brought up and uses a parameter in the URL to provide authorization to the download links. This would allow Adobe to track any … [Read more...]
Microsoft clarifies WSUS role in Windows 10 v1511 upgrade
The WSUS blog on TechNet updated yesterday to clarify WSUS' role in the Windows 10 v1511 upgrade process. With the 'Windows-as-a-Service' functionality with Windows 10, you can use either WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) or SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager). WSUS serves as a local cache for Windows Updates to reduce external bandwidth usage and the time it takes … [Read more...]
‘Microsoft.Policies.WindowsStore’ is already defined when updating ADMX Central Store
I encountered another "already defined as the target namespace" error when updating the ADMX central store for Windows 10 v1511. The previous encounter came when updating the central store for Windows 10. That error was the result of Microsoft renaming the LocationProviderADM.admx file from Windows 8 to Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.admx in Windows 10. Apparently, … [Read more...]
Troubleshooting time synchronization for domain-joined computers
Time on Windows is usually straight forward. For home computers (not joined to a domain), they simply get their time from an Internet source like time.windows.com and the main trick is just to adjust the time zone from Pacific Time to your own when you first get it. For domain-joined computers, they will pull the time from the domain controllers by default. If somebody changes … [Read more...]
‘Microsoft.Policies.Sensors.WindowsLocationProvider’ is already defined
Upon downloading and moving the Windows 10 Group Policy Administrative Templates to my Central Store, I started receiving an error when I would edit a GPO. 'Microsoft.Policies.Sensors.WindowsLocationProvider' is already defined as the target namespace for another file in the store. File … [Read more...]