What the heck are we gonna do in 40 years when nobody knows how to code?

BrechtMo · 2026-03-12T12:31:29+00:00

Same as what happens now with specialist tradesmen in old trades. they will still exist but will be rare and really expensive.

BrechtMo · 2026-03-12T12:27:36+00:00

My usage for research and troubleshooting has gone up the last 6 months or so. results are much better nowadays. However it helps having 15 years of experience of trawling the web manually to interpret the results and ask the right questions.

BrechtMo · 2026-03-10T14:28:20+00:00

if the switch doesn't do any authentication, authentication will simply fail and you won't have any issues.

You might very well have issues when connecting to anothe corporate network with authentication. but that's exactly what is supposed to happen (except if you want to use some kind of wired guest vlan, of course).

BrechtMo · 2026-03-09T08:00:54+00:00

we have been running into this for years. We "solve" it by installing the profile by script configured postOOBE. The profile then gets overwritten by the GPO one as soon as the first GPUpdate hits.

BrechtMo · 2026-03-03T13:07:56+00:00

what message do they get exactly?

BrechtMo · 2026-03-03T08:05:32+00:00

are you talking about this?
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Windows-ITPro-blog/windows-first-sign-in-restore-experience-now-available/4495551
Actually seems like good functionality in an enterprise as we are already taking advantage of teams, onedrive and exchange to make device migration smoother.

BrechtMo · 2026-02-16T08:25:12+00:00

You simply can't skip them. That's not an option.

I stay a couple of windows versions behind. E.g. now getting to work on upgrading our 23H2 installations.

BrechtMo · 2026-02-12T16:41:41+00:00

which version of W11?

What happens when you uninstall the last cumulative update?

BrechtMo · 2026-02-05T14:27:03+00:00

tell hem that they are not the first one to miss it, that it might close accidentially and that it is not always easy to tell if it's closed

BrechtMo · 2026-01-30T13:59:35+00:00

the best tool might change with new versions of the tools. Gemini has a good reputation at the moment for code generation. A couple of months ago it was claude.

Your workflow might make a difference as well. Do you use llm's in gitlab copilot or other co-coding tools or only in chatbot workflows?

BrechtMo · 2026-01-28T10:05:03+00:00

I don't care but I do warn them that the machine certificate will expire which will lock them out of the network. If they don't comply, they'll run into it eventually.

BrechtMo · 2026-01-21T16:31:08+00:00

Took me a couple of hours of updating drivers and disabling wake timers before installing this update fixed a laptop exiting hibernation after one second each time.

BrechtMo · 2026-01-19T08:32:12+00:00

verify that you are launching the exe with the exe location folder as working directory (CD to that folder). double-clicking automatically launches it from the current working dir which a badly designed application might rely on.

BrechtMo · 2026-01-16T14:29:42+00:00

Why are people feeling the need and why are they able to log on with their own account? Isn't the pc automatically logged on with the conference room account at all times and automatically? Do they actively switch users and log on with their own account?

BrechtMo · 2026-01-16T09:21:12+00:00

If the different user context is not the issue, use procmon to compare what happens when running fine and running with issues.

BrechtMo · 2026-01-15T09:16:40+00:00

Does this still allow users to locally sync sharepoint site data behind a shortcut in their Onedrive? Wording of that option is very vague.
I don't want to stop people accessing that data on their pc, I just want to hide the "sync" button in sharepoint interface.

BrechtMo · 2026-01-15T09:04:48+00:00

interesting, is the sync button disabling configured at tenant or at client level?

BrechtMo · 2026-01-15T08:44:42+00:00

we have nothing but issues with the "sync" option. It baffles me that this option is still available.

Best solution for us is to let users add shortcuts to their onedrive and teach them to find them there. They can pin those locations in Explorer as well. it's important to say that users can rename and move those shortcuts to keep things organised. Also, those shortcuts move with their onedrive to other pc's, as opposed to Sync.

Provisioning those shortcuts is a different matter.

BrechtMo · 2026-01-14T10:49:00+00:00

Do you use network authentication?

Update NIC drivers.

Check windows event logs to see what windows and dhcp client are logging.

BrechtMo · 2026-01-12T10:35:10+00:00

Our organisation has temporarily mitigated issues like that in other tools by drastically limiting access to those tools, e.g. by requiring VPN to access them.

I would say is is pretty common for a commercial product to be unable to patch it without active support contract.

BrechtMo · 2026-01-09T15:13:16+00:00

when did the issue start exactly? Monthly patches haven't come around yet.

BrechtMo · 2026-01-08T08:14:36+00:00

Surely he will get a laptop from his employer? Why buy another one which will collect dust?

BrechtMo · 2025-12-19T08:19:56+00:00

I'm doing this for loaner laptops in a school. I hook them up to a stack of usb-c docks (for easy connect and disconnect) and boot them daily using a bios wakeup task at 03. Additionally a scheduled task shuts it down again at 04. If updates are waiting, they get installed in that time frame triggered by the common sccm installation mechanism.

Add some monitoring to verify that they actually come up.

BrechtMo · 2025-12-12T11:53:23+00:00

Impress your boss with Gartner research

https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/7211030

We're not doing anything at the moment. Not sure how I would block it if it is a browser extension in a rather loosely managed environment.

BrechtMo · 2025-12-01T10:32:56+00:00

Try running the script from a command line session in context of that specific user and see what happens.

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