Enroll in Olympia corp – Keep current edition (1) #WindowsInsiders

Posted on 25/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

Find the Apply phase here.

Microsoft has a test and acceptance environment for the Windows 10 Insiders. It’s called Olympia. It’s a complete solution, with a website, Office 365, Intune et cetera.

You will find the website here: https://olympia.windows.com

In the previous blog we applied for the Olympia corp, and now it is time to enroll in it!

Enroll

So you got the message that your Olympia account and it is time to Enroll! Find the details here!

There are 2 ways to Enroll:

Choose one of the following two enrollment options:

– Keep your current Windows 10 edition

Please see Olympia Corp enrollment – keep current edition.

– Upgrade your Windows 10 edition from Pro to Enterprise

Please see Olympia Corp enrollment – upgrade to enterprise edition.

* Please note that your Windows 10 Enterprise license will not be renewed if your PC is not connected to Olympia.

The first option will keep your system almost as it is, you add an Olympia account and the policies to your system. With the second option you get an Olympia managed system, logon with your Olympia account and so on!

So what is the experience you get with Option 1 – Keep your current Windows 10 Edition?

Go to Start > Settings > Accounts > Access work or school. To see this setting, you need to have administrator rights to your device (see local administrator).

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If you are already connected to a domain, click the existing account and then click Disconnect. Click Restart Later.

Click Connect and enter your Olympia corporate account (e.g., username@olympia.windows.com). Click Next.

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Enter the temporary password that was sent to you. Click Sign in. Follow the instructions to set a new password.

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And then update it!

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If you choose a to common or frequently used password, well that won’t work 😉
This is VERY good! Let’s keep it safe.

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If this is the first time you are logging in, fill in the additional information to help you retrieve your account details.

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And you need to provide the requested information. As you can see at the bottom, you have limited time for this step (15 minutes).

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Then accept the Terms.

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The device gets registered.

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And you’re all set!

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Apply for Olympia corp. #WindowsInsiders

Posted on 25/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

Apply for Olympia corp!

Find the Enroll phase here or here

Microsoft has a test and acceptance environment for the Windows 10 Insiders. It’s called Olympia. It’s a complete solution, with a website, Office 365, Intune et cetera.

You will find the website here: https://olympia.windows.com

What is Olympia Corp?

Windows Insider Lab for Enterprise Program is intended for Windows Insiders who want to try new experimental and pre-release Enterprise features*. To get the complete experience of these Enterprise features, Olympia Corp, a virtual corporation has been set up to reflect the IT infrastructure of a real world business. As an enthusiastic Windows Insider you can complete quests which guide you through these cool new Enterprise features. As an IT professional, you can better understand the end-user perspective of features like WIP (Windows Information Protection), WDAG (Windows Defender Application Guard), and Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection).

So now we know what it is 😉
How do apply and enroll in it?

First there are a few prerequisites:

You must be a Windows Insider. Go here to learn more and register
You must have an Olympia corporate account. Don’t have an account? We are currently providing a limited number of accounts to qualified Windows Insiders. To request an account, please complete our brief survey at http://aka.ms/RegisterOlympia.
Your PC must be running Windows 10 Insider Preview build 17025 or later. Note: Participation in the lab requires that machines are always up to date with the latest Insider Preview build (Slow Ring or newer).
If your PC is currently domain joined, disconnect from the domain and login using your local (admin) account. You may (but is not required) login using the MSA associated with your Windows Insider account.

Apply

You can apply by filling out a brief survey which can be found here: http://aka.ms/RegisterOlympia. Then you wait until you get a message from Olympia@Microsoft.com that your application is approved.

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And from here we go to the Enroll phase!

Windows 10 ‘Friendly dates’

Posted on 21/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

So a little gem in Windows 10 is the Friendly date notation!

you can now see a friendly date in Windows Explorer, something like 20 minutes ago, Yesterday a 4:01 PM or Januari 12.

This is so nice 🙂

Also, in the ‘Downloads‘ folder there is a change. The standard sortation is now ‘Date Modfied‘, that is the latest first! Super, now I don’t have to click the sortation any more to find the latest download. Me happy 😉

Of course you can always go back to the old notation. Why should you, nah..

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Turn it on or off. Right-click on the Date column!

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The old, standard.

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A different Windows Insider Program Settings page – #18317

Posted on 17/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

From the flight notes!

We are introducing a simplified Windows Insider Program Settings page via Settings > Update & Security > Windows Insider Program with Build 18317. The goal is to make the end-to-end experience of signing up for the Windows Insider Program and setting up your PC to take new builds much easier by simplifying the experience and removing some of the clutter. You’ll find that all the same functionality is still there.

And here it is, in beautiful Black theme of course :/

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Under ‘Pick your Insider settings’ are the choices.

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Quick tip – default tab in Task Manager

Posted on 17/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

In Windows 10 you can now select a default tab when you open Task Manager.

It’s in ‘Options‘ – ‘Set default tab‘
I prefer ‘Details‘ 😉

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Windows 10 Insider Build #18317 Sign-in options crashing (BUG?) – #WindowsInsiders

Posted on 17/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

Hi!

So when testing and playing around with the various Windows Insider Builds, yesterday the new and latest came out. We are at Build #18317!

To test I have serveral machines installed, from a couple of Virtual Machines (on Server 2016, 2019 and Windows 10 – 1803) to physical devices like a Lenove Thinkpad 10 and Microsoft Surface 🙂

During the first look in this build I found that when I was opening Settings – Accounts – Sign-in options, the dialog would crash, hmm not good.

At first I thought, well can happen, let’s do a restart. But same behaviour. Oke, let’s dig in deeper. In the meanwhile a little discussion had started on Twitter (thanks all!) and a couple thing drew my attention. There was a mention of ‘Only on a remote RDP session’….

Well then let’s test that, and aha when I physically login a device (my Thinkpad) then I do not see the Sign-in options crashing. When I do a RDP to a VM, voila crash!

So the steps are described here:
I will start with the failing scenario and then the working one.

Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) – NOT WORKING

I come to the login screen:
There is already something missing, I normally login to this machine with a PIN! But that option is not given.. (see the good login experience in the next chapter!)

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I login with my password and goto Settings – Accounts

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If I now click on sign-in options most of the times the Windows directly closes again!

But when I tried this on a little bit slower computer this is visible for a couple of seccond, and then crashes!

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Also here are some options not available, but that is ok over a RDP connection…?!

If you want to send data to Microsoft (I do!) then it is good to send the data from the ‘Reliability Monitor‘. To get there just type Reliability Monitor in the Search field. Yes it is improved and really good.
You can also find it at: Control Panel – System and Security – Security and Maintenance – ‘View archived messages‘

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Here you see what is going on with your system.

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If you click on the ‘View technical details‘ you will get the details of the crash. In my case there were two different buckets.

Bucket 1

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Bucket 2:

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Physical login (everything is good!)

So I come to the login screen.

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My login screen, and I can login with a PIN. Nice!

I can even see the other login options! (like password)

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And then I goto Settings – Accounts – Sign-in options with no problems:
(can even change them!)

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Quick tip: No Picture preview in Windows Explorer

Posted on 16/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

Sometimes when you are working with pictures it can happen that you see no preview of your pictures. Maybe a nice little flower 😉

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Well there is an easy fix for that!

Goto Windows Explorer and select ‘View‘ and then ‘Options‘, ‘change folder and search options‘

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you wil be able to change all sorts of settings, but this is the one we are looking for right now, ‘Always show icons, never thumbnails‘

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Uncheck the box, et voila you have you picture preview again!

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Nice:

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Cumulative Update Windows Insider Build #18312 released

Posted on 15/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

Just hot from the presses, Cumulative Update for Windows Insiders Build #18312, bringing this build to 10.0.18312.1007

It is known as KB4487181

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New login experience Windows 10

Posted on 15/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

So I logged in to my favourite Windows 10 Insider machine yesterday and I was presented a new login experience.

Since I do out-of-the-box experiences while creating Windows Insider machines I had not setup anything yet in this machine.

So I was very delighted with the new wizard to configure PIN login and the Phone link 🙂

Yes, I have read about the comments that this wizard even comes when you already have setup Windows Hello os linked your phone. But hey, This is the Windows Insider Fast Ring! Something can and will change in future releases!

Let’s start:

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You of course know that you can also use ‘letters and/or symbols‘ 😉

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Yep, as always!

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Link your phone, the number is taken from your MSA profile. You receive a SMS code and your phone will be linked to the device!

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I like the picture, do you?

Login experience Windows 10 – version 1809

Posted on 12/01/2019 by Stephan Wibier

Login experience Windows 10 – version 1809

I just wanted to share the login experience for Windows 10 – 1809, with a domain-joined account. Well actually the machine does not get domain-joined during this process, but you get to create a local administrator account!

So why it is called like this, I don’t know.

As always with Microsoft, everything just takes a moment. And well actually this process doesn’t take to long altogether.

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Choose your region

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Something important 😉

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Then the interessting part, the User. You can login with a Microsoft account (M365 or O365), but it can’t be a Microsoft MSA account (i.e. hotmail.com, live.nl or outlook.com et cetera)

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