[On demand] Windows 10 EOS: Myths, misconceptions, and FAQs
Support for Windows 10 and other Microsoft products will end on October 14, 2025. Get tips to help you prepare your organization to navigate these milestones. Watch Windows 10 EOS: Myths, misconceptions, and FAQs – now on demand – and join the conversation at https://aka.ms/EndOfSupportFAQs. To help you learn more, here are the links referenced in the session: Products affected by End of Support in 2025 Windows 10 (Non-LTSC) Office 2016 | 2019 Exchange Server 2016 | 2019 Visio 2016 | 2019 Project 2016 | 2019 Skype for Business Server 2015 | 2019 Also, monitor Windows Release Health, for updated information as it becomes available. Leverage Day 1 with Windows 11: A Quick Tour to inform your users on how to get the most out of their new Windows 11 desktop Where to start with your Windows 10 upgrade Windows deployment documentation | Microsoft Learn If you qualify for FastTrack benefits, our FastTrack resources can help you in your journey For more free technical skilling on the latest in Windows, Windows in the cloud, and Microsoft Intune, view the full Microsoft Technical Takeoff session list.Get the best of Windows on the Microsoft 365 admin center
We’re very excited to celebrate improvements to the Windows experience on Microsoft 365 admin center. We want to remind you that, as an admin, you can stay informed about announcements and important upcoming changes by setting up email notifications. Here are a few tips to set up your notifications on the Message center page: You can receive a weekly digest email on Mondays with the information about the products and services you choose. The weekly digest email includes links to all messages published over the past week. To opt-in, just select the Email tab and Preferences to configure it. The major alerts email brings you relevant announcements and is sent on the same day the announcement is published. You can also configure it by selecting this option from the Email tab in Preferences. If you are a new admin with the role of Global Admin or Message center Privacy Reader, you will be subscribed to a 4-week trial period for the message center digest. You can choose to stay subscribed once the trial has concluded, just use the Message center preference menu. Don’t miss the notifications! For a quick step-by-step on how to set up email notifications for Windows announcements, watch this short video.Save the date: Windows Office Hours - April 21, 2022
Save the date, RVSP to receive reminders, and join us here in the Windows servicing community on Thursday, April 21, 2022 from 8:00-9:00 a.m. Pacific Time for our monthly session of Windows Office Hours. We will have product experts, servicing experts, and engineers representing Windows, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager), public sector, security, FastTrack, and more so this is a great chance to receive answers to questions, get tips to resolve challenges, or find help with specific blockers to Window 11 adoption. If 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time doesn't work for you, post your questions here up to 48 hours in advance and add "Office Hours" as a tag to ensure we see them. Hope you can join us!Thanks for joining us for Windows Office Hours - March 17, 2022
Office hours are now closed. We hope we were able to answer your questions and provide tips and resources to help you more easily manage Windows updates and your Windows device estate. The experts and engineers who supported today's session were: Windows 365: Christian Montoya Windows commercial: Rob York and Dune Desormeaux Device management in Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Joe Lurie Microsoft Endpoint Manager (public sector, CMG, tenant attach, etc.): Jason Sandys Expediting updates in Microsoft Endpoint Manager: David Guyer Public sector: Sani Sheikh Windows deployment: Steve Thomas Cloud-based update management, Windows Update for Business: Aria Carley Save the date for future events Our next office hours event will take place on Thursday, April 21st, 8:00-9:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Add it to your calendar (note, you may have to manually configure the reminder). See you next time!Updated for 20H2: Windows 10 gets better with every release
With each release, Windows 10 improves from a security, productivity, and manageability perspective. But the underlying message, and what makes it all possible, is the agility and unbelievable engineering innovation that simplifies the servicing process for the IT Pro. Delivering on my promise to make it a habit to share the better together slides with each release, the version attached to this post covers IT innovations through Windows 10, version 20H2--and the end of service (EOS) date for each feature set so you don't get too close to hitting EOS for any of the devices in your estate. Stay tuned for the next update!End of servicing: Windows 10, version 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004
On December 14, 2021, all editions of Windows 10, version 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004 will reach end of servicing. After that date, devices running these editions will no longer receive monthly security and quality updates containing protections from the latest security threats. We recommend that you update your devices to the latest version of Windows 10, or upgrade eligible devices to Windows 11. For information about servicing timelines and lifecycle, see Windows 10 release information, Windows 11 release information, and the Windows lifecycle FAQ.
Latest LCU not detected from WSUS if corresponding SSU preinstalled
Hi, for a few months now, the SSU is bundled with the LCU. I have noticed that, if the bundled SSU is manually preinstalled with e.g. DISM, the corresponding LCU portion will no longer be detected as applicable from WSUS! It will however be detected if I scan against WU directly. WSUS will even show the entire bundle as installed for clients which only have the SSU portion installed! This doesn't seem like a common scenario, however it becomes a huge problem if a device does a feature upgrade (from media or WSUS, doesn't matter) from an older version (<= 1909) to 20H2, with the "/DynamicUpdate NoLCU" option enabled. What seems to happen is, Windows Setup does not, as instructed, download and apply the latest LCU, but will still download and apply the latest SSU! This results in an installation that's effectively stuck at the LCU of the upgrade media used (currently 2020-11 for the WSUS upgrade package) and cannot upgrade to the current LCU, if WSUS is used as the only update source - at least until a newer LCU is released and approved. And since SSUs cannot be uninstalled, there is no easy workaround for affected machines. I don't know if anyone from the WSUS team reads this, but there seems to be a faulty "is installed" detection logic in the SSU+LCU bundles published to WSUS, that needs to be addressed asap. Right now I have 35 Windows 10 clients stuck at the November '20 LCU, unable to upgrade. Can anybody else confirm this problem? Regards, Markus
The code execution cannot proceed because edgegdi.dll was not found.
Can anyone able to identify why it appears when opening Task Manager from Windows 10! Its intermittent Issues. Task Manager ""The code execution cannot proceed because edgegdi.dll was not found. Please add your inputs! Note - This issue appears in random models running with Window 10 Version 2004, also seen during opening up Windows Settings, Event Viewer in machines.Windows office hours: June 17, 2021
Post your questions for our next office hours session, which will take place here in the Windows servicing community on Thursday, June 17th from 9:00-10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Join us to get answers to any questions you may have around managing updates for the remote and onsite devices in your organization, help with specific issues, and tips on how to increase update velocity. We'll have members of the Windows and Microsoft Endpoint Manager product and engineering teams on hand, as well as the FastTrack team. Save the date and see the Windows IT Pro Blog for full details. Let's get started!
