{"id":19383,"date":"2016-01-14T13:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=19383"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:08:09","slug":"windows-10-being-pushed-out-to-domain-joined-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=19383","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Being Pushed Out To Domain-Joined PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Sams (my boss at Petri.com) published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petri.com\/microsofts-next-aggressive-windows-10-step-focuses-on-domain-joined-machines\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> last night about how Microsoft has started to push out Windows 10 upgrades to domain-joined PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the PC doesn\u2019t upgrade via Windows Update; the user will be prompted if they want to update, and then a deliberately confusing screen \u201cencourages\u201d the user to upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Brad notes that the environment must meet certain requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The machine must be running and licensed for Windows 7 Pro or Windows 8.1 Pro (Enterprise doesn\u2019t do this stuff).<\/li>\n<li>There is no WSUS, ConfigMgr, etc &#8211; the machine gets updates directly from MSFT &#8211; this means smaller businesses for the most part.<\/li>\n<li>The machine must be a domain member.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, this affects SMEs with a domain (no WSUS, etc). But I\u2019d be surprised if larger businesses weren\u2019t targeted at a later point in order to help MSFT hit their 1 billion PCs goal.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, this decision to push upgrades to business is exactly the sort of action that gives Microsoft such a bad name with customers. Most SMEs won\u2019t know this is coming. A lot of SMEs run systems that need to be tested, upgraded, or won\u2019t support or work on newer operating systems. So Microsoft opting to force change and uncertainty on those businesses that are least ready is down right dumb. Brad reports that Microsoft claims that people asked for this upgrade. Right &#8211; fine &#8211; let those businesses opt into an upgrade via GPO instead of the other way around. Speaking of which \u2026<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/3080351\" target=\"_blank\">blocker process<\/a>. I work in a small business and I\u2019ve deployed the blocker. Windows Update added new GPO options to our domain controllers, and I enabled the GPO to block Windows upgrades via Windows Update:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image_thumb.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"152\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see &#8211; I\u2019ve deployed this at work. We will upgrade to Windows 10 (it\u2019s already started) but we will continue to do it at our own pace because we cannot afford people to be offline for 2 hours during the work day while Windows upgrades.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3d12296f-0d92-4372-9627-10657b1ba848\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+10\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 10<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deployment\" rel=\"tag\">Deployment<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Updates\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Updates<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Active+Directory\" rel=\"tag\">Active Directory<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Sams (my boss at Petri.com) published a story last night about how Microsoft has started to push out Windows 10 upgrades to domain-joined PCs. Note that the PC doesn\u2019t upgrade via Windows Update; the user will be prompted if they want to update, and then a deliberately confusing screen \u201cencourages\u201d the user to upgrade. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=19383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 10 Being Pushed Out To Domain-Joined PCs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[169,174,136,121],"class_list":["post-19383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-active-directory","tag-deployment","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/terrymyerson1.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19386,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383\/revisions\/19386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}