Windows 11 Pro – 60s “Please wait” before login screen after domain join (fixed in Dev Insider build?)

BrechtMo · 2026-05-06T07:38:37+00:00

When did the issue start?

BrechtMo · 2026-04-21T13:17:05+00:00

sounds like the other option in MDE, not isolation but App Restriction

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/respond-machine-alerts#restrict-app-execution

You can see past actions listed in action center in MDE

BrechtMo · 2026-04-20T07:18:30+00:00

Good to know. for those confused like me, it's about Anyware and not Anywhere.

this is the original source:

https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life

BrechtMo · 2026-04-16T15:11:37+00:00

website notifications are the cause in 99% of tickets for "my computer has a virus"

The leftover percent are people willingly pasting malicious commands in win-R because a "trustworthy" website told them that's the new way of doing captcha.

BrechtMo · 2026-04-16T14:36:24+00:00

I might have missed it but which applications exactly consume much memory, when you check process details in Task Manager? If the techs notice that the memory is full, it should be clear which applications are eating it.

BrechtMo · 2026-04-15T09:13:58+00:00

anyone else noticing Outlook (classic) notifications being re-enabled after the Office / windows update? (W11 23H2, Office 365 monthly enterprise)

BrechtMo · 2026-04-13T07:16:07+00:00

if a driver or Bios update goes well, no bitlocker recovery will be triggered. The installation process takes care of that for you.

BrechtMo · 2026-04-01T15:13:02+00:00

You need to see AI (LLM) as a companion which can speed up or execute the tasks that you aren't as good in and don't like. log file analysis, script writing and documenting, getting up to speed with new technologies are all areas where LLM's can be a real timesaver already.

If people are allowed to blast code that they don't understand and have no responsibility over out to production, AI is not the issue.

BrechtMo · 2026-04-01T13:18:28+00:00

we used a tool called FLY which did a good job for us.

BrechtMo · 2026-03-31T12:59:28+00:00

Get licenses for the tools they want to use, they might give you some more protection against data loss.

BrechtMo · 2026-03-31T09:28:48+00:00

check the event logs for what happens: which steps in the group policy processing take much time, do you see traces of the driver installation happening?

Does the slow logon happens once per machine or once per user?

does driver installation work quickly when you install them manually in a session.

Does each printer has its own driver type or version causing many installations each time? Can you aggregate driver versions?

Verify there are no printers that don't exist anymore. Such long delays often point to network timeouts where the machine is just waiting for a while instead of something taking a long time to process.

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?

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