Do a major revamp / update to Windows 10 at this point in time? With all the new people on line working from home this is exactly what we needed. I am sure that all the IT people are just loving this.
Ya Just venting. . . . .
Be carful of the settings that Microsoft wants you to agree to with this new update.
Did I miss something here? There hasn't been a major update since November.
And who has an IT department is bad enough to not have any patching procedures for remote users?
dean1484 said:Do a major revamp / update to Windows 10 at this point in time? With all the new people on line working from home this is exactly what we needed. I am sure that all the IT people are just loving this.
Ya Just venting. . . . .
Be carful of the settings that Microsoft wants you to agree to with this new update.
Perhaps Windows 10 compresses file better or perhaps the root cause is DERP. My IT Department recently advised me that I'm up for a new laptop...um, no, we don't change generals in the middle of battle.
I thought this was going to be about putting 'rename' next to 'delete'...Maybe the update fixes this by putting 'save' between them.
I haven't noticed any updates/changes today....
For some reason all the computers that I use as well as the computers that my staff are using have been hit with updates today. It will change some of the core setting on the computers with respect to privacy unless you catch the very small opt out button. There was also a big push to instigate your phone with your PC so they can get more info on you and they are also trying pushing you hard to subscribe to a "free trial" of 365. (We use stand alone licenses of office 2019 on all our computers to specifically avoid the monthly payments) I hate subscription based software with a passion.
I know someone who got hit with Windows updates twice the last month that bricked their laptop each time. He had to restore from backup both times. I get that updates are important for security, but I swear QA testing is a thing of the past for Microsoft.
slefain said:I know someone who got hit with Windows updates twice the last month that bricked their laptop each time. He had to restore from backup both times. I get that updates are important for security, but I swear QA testing is a thing of the past for Microsoft.
What do you mean that you think it's a thing of the past? I'm fairly certain you just described their QA testing plan in detail.
dean1484 said:For some reason all the computers that I use as well as the computers that my staff are using have been hit with updates today. It will change some of the core setting on the computers with respect to privacy unless you catch the very small opt out button. There was also a big push to instigate your phone with your PC so they can get more info on you and they are also trying pushing you hard to subscribe to a "free trial" of 365. (We use stand alone licenses of office 2019 on all our computers to specifically avoid the monthly payments) I hate subscription based software with a passion.
Sounds like it's your IT department pushing out updates. A properly run IT department should take a MS update, test it out on a machine, see how it affects normal users, make adjustments to that update, and then push the update out via one of the many ways to do so at an hour that typically doesn't affect most employees. Or you konw send out an e-mail that says "HEY WE ARE PUSHING UPDATES OUT AT THIS HOUR, SAVE OFTEN!"
I say this as the organization I'm currently in pushed out one at 2PM yesterday that restarted everyones computers with no warning. Always awesome losing your train of thought and some work
In reply to DirtyBird222 :
That sounds like someone missed setting AM/PM correctly for scheduling the pushed update
DirtyBird222 said:dean1484 said:For some reason all the computers that I use as well as the computers that my staff are using have been hit with updates today. It will change some of the core setting on the computers with respect to privacy unless you catch the very small opt out button. There was also a big push to instigate your phone with your PC so they can get more info on you and they are also trying pushing you hard to subscribe to a "free trial" of 365. (We use stand alone licenses of office 2019 on all our computers to specifically avoid the monthly payments) I hate subscription based software with a passion.
Sounds like it's your IT department pushing out updates. A properly run IT department should take a MS update, test it out on a machine, see how it affects normal users, make adjustments to that update, and then push the update out via one of the many ways to do so at an hour that typically doesn't affect most employees. Or you konw send out an e-mail that says "HEY WE ARE PUSHING UPDATES OUT AT THIS HOUR, SAVE OFTEN!"
I say this as the organization I'm currently in pushed out one at 2PM yesterday that restarted everyones computers with no warning. Always awesome losing your train of thought and some work
I think he is his IT department.
bluej (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to DirtyBird222 :
That sounds like someone missed setting AM/PM correctly for scheduling the pushed update
Normally, yes, however with a large 24/7 enterprise - a reminder e-mail is typically sent out prior to any push. That ensures our night owls don't rage out.
Well. I think I may have updated overnight. I had some blue microsoft window popup on login today. I clicked 'not now' and it went away. Haven't noticed any other changes, but I will take a look at the privacy settings.
Like Dean, I am my own IT department and I keep Windows set to automatically update.
Something got updated on mine 2 hours ago. I don't know what though. My company IT uses Desktop Central and they just do it whenever they want without warning, so usually the only way I can tell something is happening is that some process I didn't start is using 47% of my CPU and making everything else slow.
MS-DOS 6.22 remains the high point for Microsoft OS's.
I just checked mine and its completely up to date without issue.
Just to reinforce things to those of you without centralized IT update controls, Microsoft releases patches every month on the second Tuesday, so make a reminder in your calendar solution of choice so you're not caught off guard when your system(s) update and reboot.
There are what they call Out Of Band updates, but they are relatively rare.
and if your IT department fires off patches without notice or an official SLA, then I'd go kick your IT folks in the nuts.
BTW, that is one of my primary jobs and if we did that to the 60K employees or the 20-30k servers? I'd be out on my ass faster than you could imagine. WE natter at the employees that updates are coming and when its time to reboot.
Now with that out of the way, Microsoft does screw up their patches and since they moved away from individual updates to rollup packages it has gotten messier and more difficult to troubleshoot.
In reply to Stefan (Forum Supporter) :
At my office, the IT folks are the ones who kick us in the nuts. I have never received any kind of notice for a patch. In fact they installed Desktop Central without telling us, and then all of a sudden our computers were restarting all the time, etc.
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