JRowley

I think a lot of schools jumped on 10 purely because they skipped 8 and 8.1, so were pretty keen to move on. Personally I'm keen to move to 11 to maintain parity with home use but it'll be next year at the earliest, and even then it'll be challenging due to hardware compatibility.

To be clear, Windows 11 ADMX files are backwards compatible with Windows 10/8.1/8/7 etc. There's only 9 policies which are specific to Windows 10 which aren't in the Windows 11 ADMX, so I suspect most people can upgrade without any issues. Here's a link to the list as of Feb this year, I doubt the Windows 10 list has changed since then: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/windows-10-or-windows-11-gpo-admx-which-one-to-use-for-your/ba-p/3063322 Edit: The problem comes if they introduce a new feature and accompanying GP settings specifically for Windows 10 and not Windows 11, in that case the Windows 11 ADMX files will not reflect those settings and you'll have to load the Windows 10 ADMX files from a client store instead. Obviously not ideal and a terrible decision, but to me it seems pretty unlikely that we'll actually need to do this during a transition period.

Now it's official and coming out this year(!) I think we could do with a forum being set up so we can share resources as we did for Windows 10.

Are you blocking third party cookies with Edge by any chance?

ServiceNow are their new helpdesk provider, they've been merging all of their separate ones (26 in all I believe) into one mega helpdesk.

You can do this with a Query, they're quite easy to build and you can copy/paste the data out in to excel if you need to. Also this link talks about setting Criteria, this isn't a requirement but you could use it to exclude Virtual machines for example. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/servers/manage/create-queries Here are the things we look for in ours, all of your devices will have to complete a software/hardware scan to be able to get all of this data: Alternatively you could build a report but that's a bit more indepth, I think a query is fine.

Yes sorry, it is best to use the switch. Though you can still use both DesktopApplicationID and DesktopApplicationLinkPath it is best to use DesktopApplicationID going forward.

Have you tried layout the start menu how you want it and then extracting it with powershell? Export-StartLayout –path .xml -UseDesktopApplicationID If nothing else you can check things like Column/Row settings and should be able to get the correct width.

What can I say, I've never had an issue with the Start Menu, the powershell script is a run once task and is no inconvenience at all, apart from that minor thing Windows 10 Education "just works" for me too. To each their own obviously.

This has never happened to me and we've been using Windows 10 Education since release, it's literally not a thing that happens. To suggest that you have to use LTSB to get a trouble free environment is nonsense, our Windows installation is the last thing I have to worry about - it's completely stable.

Education here, removing the junk is as simple as running a powershell script against the wim before setting it up for deployment, takes no effort whatsoever.

I think this is what you're looking for, specifically the "Disable automatic tenant join". https://support.office.com/en-us/article/office-365-education-self-sign-up-technical-faq-7fb1b2f9-94c2-4cbb-b01e-a6eca34261d6#bkmk_preventjoins But I can't confirm right now, hopefully someone else can.

Personally we run Education and Office 365 ProPlus so this isn't an issue. For those of you running LTSB/LTSC could you not just run Office 2019 instead?

No not in 7, it wasn't in Windows 10 originally either sorry.

A lot of people already know this one I'm sure. WinKey+Shift+S opens the snipping overlay with rectangle select, when you make your selection it disappears and you have your snip on the clipboard. It can save a great deal of time and is a good one to pass on to teaching staff. Oh sorry just to add this works from W10 1703 onwards I believe.