Hello to all Windows installation freaks out there β¦
My name is Rainer Pollmann, I am a graduate engineer in electrical engineering and have been working as an ITPro since my university days. I started computing with 4 bit CPUs and earned my first money with the first IBM PCs (at that time with DOS).
After a longer time as a freelancer and as a technical manager of a small developer company, I have been working for a leading service provider in the industry for more than 20 years, there as a „Principal Technology Specialist“ with focus on troubleshooting and client deployment, and am retired now πΒ
After about 30 years in the business, I’m starting an irregularly updated blog series about
„How do I get an enterprise-grade – AKA vanilla / signature image – Windows 10 client OS onto a fresh box, what tools do I use to do that & how do I troubleshoot it if something goes wrong in the process.“
and
„what do I do when & how if this is also going to happen in the AZURE cloud (cloud first)? „
Including some deep dive troubleshooting tips, but one thing at a time β¦.
Background:
I know & appreciate Michael Niehaus for many years, he has a very similar history as me.
Unfortunately he left Microsoft recently and went to Tanium π
Here you can find his famous OutOfOffice Hours Blog:
https://oofhours.com/
As a little appetizer to the stuff I’ve been doing for > 25 years in a big way:
Check out this video, it shows in fast forward the UPDATE (!) of a Windows 1.0 box (!) to Windows 10 π
SHORT Version:
Installing Windows 1.0 to 10 (Time Lapse) on a Virtual Machine – YouTube
If this video looks familiar to you or if you start to smile, you are right here π
I will also try to continue the cool „Case of the Unexplained“ series by Mark Russinovich somehow, of course with using his tools π
I also know Mark personally, he is „Mr. AZURE“ = Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure – for some time now and (unfortunately!) hasn’t done such sessions for a long time π
last session from Mark here
But his SysInternals tools are still maintained (and supported!) and I use them daily since the release of RegMon & FileMon π
Let me surprise you π
By the way, you can also reach me here:
„Doc Windows“ Rainer Pollmann