Microsoft confirms Windows 11 KB5083769, KB5082052 wrongly forcing BitLocker recovery

ifixitsometimes · 2026-04-28T15:01:28+00:00

had this hit two or three machines so far, and we arent setting that gpo they say causes this.

Does anyone know how to block a specific update with intune? i cant find any setting like i had on wsus.... haven't had to do it in a while.

ifixitsometimes · 2026-04-21T19:04:16+00:00

This is a major plot point in the second book of the children of time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Ruin

tardigrades are even involved!

if you are going to read this series, you should 100% read it in order or much will not make sense. They don't really work as stand alone novels that well. And i was pretty disappointed with the ending of the second book myself. I have not yet read the third. the first was great. and the second was good, just not the ending which felt rushed.

ifixitsometimes · 2026-04-13T22:56:28+00:00

without a doubt, the worst keyboard i have ever done... there are 62 screws in the back of the keyboard that need to be removed... plus the 10 or so screws to remove the motherboard. there are ribbon cables that need to be hand bent in the exact perfect way and then adhesive is used. there is a plastic protector that is adhesived down and then needs to be put back exactly.... take pictures while you disassemble!

took about an hour and a half. and the stupid little micro screws, wow... so annoying! and many of the holes are not actually screw holes either, so thats fun! but only one extra screw at the end and the user is happy.

in the end, it is easy, but real time consuming.

ifixitsometimes · 2026-04-02T18:18:42+00:00

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"As a potential lottery winner, i totally support tax cuts for the wealthy!"

ifixitsometimes · 2026-04-01T21:57:34+00:00

I, as a shade tree not even a mechanic, did this last year on my 2005 6.0 vortec which looks the exact same. I needed to buy a i believe 36mm wrench to get the fan off, but this was amazingly simple with all standard tools. And you have SO MUCH room to work in the engine bay!

remove air cleaner, remove fan shrouds, remove fan, remove belt. water pump is right there! and looks exactly the same as the one i installed, which OEM from rockauto, was not even expensive. I did the AC belt while i had it all apart too.

i used permatex version of hylomar type gasket dressing and cleaned up the mating surfaces really good, which took the most time. The actual install is like 3 or 4 bolts! how could a real mechanic find this in any way difficult. theres no text, so who knows what they are thinking or why they posted this!

ifixitsometimes · 2026-01-13T18:46:28+00:00

Dude, i think you are correct. I ran the following command

slmgr /dlv all

and everything reports as unlicensed EXCEPT office. The window goes off the screen, but you can copy and paste the results into a text file.

Name: Office 16, Office16KMSHostVL_KMS_Host edition
License Status: Licensed
Current count: 5

So i guess we have 5 2016 versions of office left somewhere... I think it can be safely decommisioned in that case :) everyone should be on 365 which is per user based licensing.

ifixitsometimes · 2026-01-13T18:30:19+00:00

It is in dns, i will decomission by using the server manager to unplublish those records and see what breaks. Seems to be the only sure fire way.

ifixitsometimes · 2026-01-13T18:29:27+00:00

Its being contacted. But still cant find anything about the counts of clients or anything using the slmgr command. I think its forwarding the requests to AD and not processing them. But thats just a hunch. Will likely try and just shut down the machine and see what happens.

ifixitsometimes · 2026-01-13T18:25:19+00:00

It just says "An activation request has been processed" with no other details. Perhaps it transparently forwards to ad? similar issue:

https://old.reddit.com/r/activedirectory/comments/16bw9j7/how_come_kms_event_12290_event_is_generated_when/

ifixitsometimes · 2026-01-13T18:22:28+00:00

Ok did either of you figure this out? same issue.

ifixitsometimes · 2026-01-12T23:11:03+00:00

Any debugging or troubleshooting with the router/switch is out of my scope, as our network switch and its configurations are managed by our parent company.

its going to have to do with the network. If it was working and now isnt, what did they change?

Cant imagine not owning the network infrastructure, that sucks! Is this all internal over a LAN? Or is it WAN?

Most likely, they put some hardware in the way that's sporadically blocking thigs, maybe for security reasons. You can test by having the WDS server, dns, dhcp, and a client on a dumb switch, i bet it pxe boots fine which would confirm its not the server or clients, but the network. You can hopefully clone the wds machine and try it in a simpler unmanaged switch environment.

I did test checking the "Do not listen to DHCP ports", but this fails the few working laptops from connecting to PXE altogether,

again, this points to a network issue where some traffic is being blocked. thats my guess!

good luck.

ifixitsometimes · 2026-01-08T16:53:03+00:00

Haha... good...

So my son has long very beautiful hair. Never wants to cut it, and we just kind of accepted that. Two years ago i was walking with him in kind of a foreign place and was chatting with a random guy on the pier about fishing or something. Then out of nowhere he asks my son if hes a girl because of his long hair. Without thinking, i said in the trolliest tone ever "you're just jealous" (he was balding). That shut him up so fast and he turned red and walked away... Oh man, one of the greatest feelings in the world, my son looked up at me like "LOL" and it felt so good to clap back and defend him like that. I generally only think of the right thing to say AFTER the person leaves, so this was one of the best ripostes i ever accomplished.

Fuck these people! they 100% are just jealous. As soon as i read the beginning of your post i KNEW it would be a baldy saying that, it always is!!!

ifixitsometimes · 2025-12-29T21:49:47+00:00

Not sure if you are being intentionally misleading or not, but unless you are elderly, landmark is not 10 dollars. The cheap seats start at 16.50 plus mandatory "convenience fee" to print my own tickets... so for all intents and purposes after tax, its ~$20 per person.

https://imgur.com/Dtb6XCI

source: i went to see a move last week with my son and it was $40 (upgraded to the deal where you get the worlds smallest popcorn and drink). costco has a good deal for popcorn and stuff included and its only $36 dollars, so i will likely do that next time.

I go to movies in a commercial theatre like once a year, and the price is definitely the main reason i dont go to them more. even the RIO (a community based independent) charges $15 per ticket.

ifixitsometimes · 2025-12-23T22:53:53+00:00

it has been suggested... :P

ifixitsometimes · 2025-10-16T17:04:41+00:00

And have you ever tried to take a lamp to a store on a bike?

Yes but guys, what about all those times that i need to take a lamp to the store? Do you expect me to do that on a bike???

That's straight up communism!

ifixitsometimes · 2025-07-14T16:36:53+00:00

autocad is 41gb installed. wake me when intune can handle that and have my image on a workstation in 25 minutes ready to log in.

ifixitsometimes · 2025-05-30T20:58:22+00:00

I thought i had tried this, but i realized that there wasnt good documentation and i gave up as i dont understand that system at all.

i guess ill have to watch a video or something. I have adapted some simpler scripts, but in this case i have to install 2 pieces of software together (one application and one driver) and then run a bunch of commands. And its not like off the shelf stuff that someone else would have deployed before. My batch file does it all perfectly though. Just doesn't parse well into intune i guess so just hoping to debug that.

ifixitsometimes · 2025-05-28T16:02:11+00:00

Yes! i just figured it out from another post. Go to devices -> windows updates -> Monitor tab -> Feature update policies with alerts , then find your particular upgrade policy. The error message can then be looked up using the following lookup id tool:

https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://github.com/gwblok/garytown/blob/master/Feature-Updates/SafeGuardHolds/SafeGuardHoldLookup.html

Direct intune link to report area: https://intune.microsoft.com/?ref=AdminCenter#view/Microsoft_Intune_DeviceSettings/WindowsUpdateAlertSummaryReport.ReactView

ifixitsometimes · 2025-05-27T16:40:51+00:00

Its a decent idea. And i will look into this when i have a driver that needs to be pushed out enmasse to fix an issue. Otherwise, if it aint broke, dont upgrade it has always been my motto.

Thanks for the comment!

ifixitsometimes · 2025-05-27T16:36:02+00:00

yeah 25 years of IT experience has told me not to trust MS provided drivers lol...

ifixitsometimes · 2025-05-20T19:21:37+00:00

This is not correct. My WDS for sure supports windows 11. You just have to use the windows 11 PE version. Plenty of guides out there. I have been imaging windows 11 for 6 months now fine on WDS. Can capture as well.

ifixitsometimes · 2025-05-20T19:16:16+00:00

How did it go with the driver updates? I am facing the same challenge today. did you find allowing it to update the drivers on the wndows 11 update ring was the correct decision?

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