One of the best user protections would be a feature to turn of ALL telemetry & adware/spyware.. to be enabled by the user IF they want.

I use, on a daily basis, a Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge (14 inch) that I bought back in June. With updates of Windows and applications, it like having a whole new device - 5 months later.

Not sure I understand how the new security feature is better from the configured UAC. Once you provide admin access, you allow the execution of that thing, with whatever changes that needs to make. Besides, everybody begs for subscribing... if I did it for everyone asking for it, would I see other content? If I subscribed to 1000 channnels, I only have a certain amount of hours to watch stuff.

RE: New Security Feature, Its difficult to know whether this is just a bad description of how this feature works or whether this feature is as rubbish as it sounds. The whole idea of elevating an account to admin in most cases is so either allow software that requires admin permissions work or installers that need to deploy files into the active profile can work correctly. If the new mode pushes you into a new profile then it won't solve the problem most elevated users are solving and I can't see how it reduces the security risk what-so-ever. All Microsoft had to do was enforce signed exe's and dll's on Windows and although signing to be available for free or < $100 but instead they've made signing too complicated & too expensive and not enforced it. Its very clear they aren't really serious about security, rather just making money by keeping the risk in play and charging customers to 'protect' themselves. When it comes to CrowdStrike, Microsoft shouldn't have approved a kernel driver that downloads and runs external code and had no testing framework. Recovering PC's after the fact isn't the solution.

Junk in junk out. MS crap incoming.

How about not holding a microphone in shot?

2:13 What are you talking about? What specifically has been discovered that allows a hacker to "exploit" UAC?

Thanks for watching! Do you think the new security features go far enough?

Just installed 2012 then to 2019 then to 2022 then to 2025, all went well.

Interesting development for Teams, for me I will just follow up with an email for any materials requested during the meeting. Maybe I am just old-school 😂

Never Heard of Power Pages

I totally disagree with you.

Thanks again as always

Thanks for watching! Do you like the closer integration of Teams and Loop?

Every time I attempt to upgrade from Windows server 2022 to Windows Server 2025 after the first reboot it says Disk Error and I have to restore it back to Server 2022. I have tried everything but every time I installed 2025 upgrade mode keep everything I get the same Disk Read error when it reboots. HELP.

They've taken away more and more granular controls when it comes to Windows Updates over time. Even the Windows Update group policies for Windows 7 had more control than what you get with the latest Win10/11 ADMX Templates. Not sure how technology is getting better but features are actually regressing. Very frustrating.

Winget. 🎉

How old is each of the "Roles & Features" in Windows Server 2025, when was the last time they got updated? eg: DNS Server, DHCP Server, etc...

Wonder if intune will stop nonsense we saw recently like servers auto upgrading.

👍 thank you! Great summary

SMB over QUIC is a game changer for fileservers. No need for VPN to access your files when out of office.

Yes, people should upgrade. To Linux :))

server 2025 is the best W11 for your laptop, there is a git repo that will install the msstore as well

This was a very informative video. Thank you so much for putting this together! I will be trying Server 2025 in my Hyper-v lab and then maybe start trying it out in Azure with some of my customers. I also plan to try Purple Night. Great job 😎

And when your in-place upgrade fails, you have no way to recover. Always always migrate in a controlled way so you have a fall back plan

13:52 there are no big new features?What in the world are you talking about? Windows Autopatch and AD becoming NUMA-aware are just two of the significant enhancements in Server 25.

Nice to see the steady growth in subscribers 🙂 thanks for the content as always

Thanks for watching! Will you upgrade to Windows Server 2025?

Not a fan of slack.... unsuscribing

Threaded conversations are already here in channels with a pretty nice UI that's easy to follow, and Slack's UI for this is beyond terrible. Would be awful for this to be applied to channel conversations or even Chats in Teams.

Panther lake ditch mop design so what will happen to the power efficiency

About bloody time. The context switch is atrocious. I've preferred slack for years due to how easy it is to keep things just enough separated but not in an intrusive way like teams.

Teams is just easier to use especially with other 365 products... Slack is just discord if it was created by a 5 year old

This could have been a two minutes video

Why do you prefer to hold the mic rather than use a mic stand ?

Microsoft needs to bring Topics into Teams native. Tagging things without needing to associate it at with a person is crucial.

I definitely prefer Teams. As a sysadmin it just seamlessly works with all the other Microsoft 365 apps.

Thanks for watching! Do you prefer Microsoft Teams or Slack?

Intel & AMD need more improvement. Intel Price is also too much for this spec 👎 Mac M4 is rocking the field with Les Cost. Can buy a Mac mini M4 at a VGA cost.

My biggest concern is Tasks. Will it be around through 2029 as well?

WSUS is free and serves a function, if you you manage a large(ish) server estate, as an update cache and can allow you to manage the role out of updates. It isn't perfect and has suffered from zero real development over the last 10 years. All other options (SCCM, Intune, Arc etc) have a cost which can be quite steep. SCCM and Intune are more targeted at client systems not servers. Arc requires Azure licencing. You can just stop using it and go direct to MS but you would need to give your servers access to the internet.

The worst thing about these comparisons is that OS called Windows and its spyware genes. The user and the data on the computer are becoming the product. Much better to quit and move to Linux.

Lunar Lake has flaws but X Elite is much worse, Intel has no compatibility problem but X Elite still has a distance to go. Most consumers don’t want to face unpredictable problems, even X Elite may works 90% similar to x86, the 10% gap is a big deal.

Not all platforms, the windows app isn’t available yet for Linux

I think most of the reviewers are doing wrong comparison of Lunar Lake performance comparison with H series processors from Intel's previous generation. These should better be compared with U or P series processors. H series of processors from Intel have yet to arrive.

absolutely love my lunar lake chip, it's soo efficient

I had a Surface Pro 11 (replacing my very old Surface Pro 3, I moved to Apple after it), but traded it in for a 15" Surface Laptop 7, because I like to work with a Laptop on my lap. I got a new PC, because Windows 11 on the M-series Mac is castrated (M-series does not yet support nested hypervisors). The Snapdragon X Elite is nice in performance and battery-life. But a) it does not support Lightroom classic (Adobe prohibits you from installing it), and does not support Nikon Z8/Z9 compressed RAW (the algorithm for it does not run on ARM), b) it does not support GPU/NPU for generic AI-tasks (llama.cpp, ollama, LM-studio), even though its very fast on the CPU with the llama.cpp ARM Q4_0_4_8 quantization (approx. as fast as a 10-GPU M2 chip). Then I also had some very weird display-driver isssues, resume fom standby did not work. I could solve it by re-installing (!!!). Overall my Surface Laoptop is a nice office machine, but not useable for photography or AI. I will upgrade my M2 MacBook Air to an M4 (as soon as it gets available), and with this, I should be also able to run non-castrated Windows 11 (doe to nested hypervisor support in Sequoia on M3+). Then I will probably sell my Surface Laptop 7. Windows 11 with AI has been a bit of a disppointment, and the Copilot+PC only uses its special hardware for very limited tasks - while it does not run generic AI like llama.cpp based inference - well.

buying overpriced Qualcomm is like Russian roulette with software - you never know if program you want you use will work

Intune is not a solution that can be used in controlled, high security environments. So whether Microsoft likes it or not, a replacement for wsus will be necessary eventually, or people will simply replace Microsoft in those environments - many of which are large government or manufacturing environments.

Qualcomm? Say quiver three times fast :-)