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Still on Windows 10? October 2026 is the expensive deadline
ESU Year 1 ends on 13 October 2026 and Year 2 costs double. Why extended security updates are a year of breathing room, not a strategy.
Read the articleEvergreen Windows: the estate that never expires again
24H2 leaves Home and Pro support in October 2026; 25H2 and 26H2 arrive as enablement packages. The version migration project is over. A rhythm replaces it.
Read the articleIntune vs Group Policy in 2026: migrate the intent, not the sprawl
Group Policy Analytics gets you part of the way. The real work is understanding what each setting was for: map it, re-engineer it or retire it.
Read the articleThe Copilot+ question: refreshing hardware in a rising market
AI PC premiums, memory prices climbing and the Windows 10 exit wave still breaking. How to plan a fleet refresh on evidence rather than vendor hype.
Read the articleDiscovery worth the name: evidence over workshops
Workshops capture what people remember. Real discovery reads the estate itself: every GPO, every application, every setting, read-only and with zero egress.
Read the articleThe packaging backlog that stalls migrations
Application packaging is the most common critical-path blocker in endpoint migrations. Why backlogs form, what a good pipeline looks like, and why...
Read the articleWhat happens to RADIUS when devices leave Active Directory?
NPS and PEAP-MSCHAPv2 depend on domain computer accounts. Entra-joined devices break 802.1X machine auth. The honest fixes, and why to sequence them first.
Read the articleEntra joined vs hybrid joined: what actually blocks the move
Most estates default to hybrid join out of caution, not need. What genuinely still requires line of sight to AD, what only appears to, and how to evidence it.
Read the articleFive things we find in every Intune health check
Update rings that miss half the estate, compliance that checks nothing, stuck deployments: the five findings that surface in almost every Intune health check.
Read the articleConfiguration drift: what actually changes after project handover
Estates leave a migration project pristine and decay quietly. Who changes what after handover, why nobody notices, and what disciplined drift management...
Read the articleWhy Windows 11 upgrades fail in co-managed estates
Co-management splits update authority between Configuration Manager and Intune. When sliders, rings, WSUS and GPO remnants disagree, Windows 11 upgrades...
Read the articleWindows 10 support has ended. Now what?
Windows 10 reached end of support on 14 October 2025. What actually changed, what did not, and how to run the exit if your estate missed the date.
Read the articleThe ESU decision: buying time honestly
Windows 10 ESU buys security-only updates at $61 a device, doubling each year. Who should pay the toll, who should not, and how to decide honestly.
Read the articleAutopilot isn't your deployment strategy
Windows Autopilot is provisioning plumbing, not a deployment strategy. What actually breaks zero-touch projects, and what a real strategy looks like.
Read the articleWindows 10: one hundred days from end of support
Windows 10 support ends on 14 October 2025. With around one hundred days left, here is what a realistic migration plan still achieves, and what waiting has...
Read the articleRationalise before you migrate: why the application estate comes first
Windows 10 support ends 14 October 2025. Most estates plan to migrate every application just in case. Usage evidence lets you retire most of them first.
Read the articleEmbracing Microsoft Intune for modern management
Imaging, on-premises tooling and manual builds no longer fit how organisations work. What modern management replaces them with, and why the move is overdue.
Read the articleGroup Policy: the good, the bad and the modern
Two decades of GPOs made Windows estates governable, then ungovernable. How to take back control on the way to the cloud.
Read the articleThe Modern Workplace
The cloud-managed, security-first foundation that lets your organisation keep pace, without trading away the user experience your people depend on.
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