Going down the IT rabbit hole

From 21. until 23. of May 2019, Portorož (Slovenia) became my home for few days. The reason for this was NTK (NT konferenca) – Microsoft’s IT conference that brought together people from all over the place.

During the three days conference was going on, I had a privilege to present three sessions of my own. As always, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people who came to my sessions, even though the session was in the middle of the lunch time or the last one for the day. Thank you all for showing up and asking questions.

My sessions at NTK 2019 were:

• Povečanje varnosti Windows klientov – ways to improve Windows security
• Vzdrževanje SCCM in WSUS okolja – SCCM and WSUS maintenance
• Brezplačna orodja za upravljanje Windows okolij – free tools to speedup Windows maintenance

Presentations and demo files can be downloaded from NTK web site or from my OneDrive:

• Povečanje varnosti Windows klientov.pptx, Day1-Demos.zip
• Vzdrževanje SCCM in WSUS okolja.pptx, Day2-Demos.txt
• Brezplačna orodja za upravljanje Windows okolij.pptx

For all the demos on day one and day two I used Start-Demo.ps1 PowerShell script. Thank you Jeffrey Snover and Joel “Jaykul” Bennett for the original script.

During one of my presentations there was one Windows Sandbox related question – data sharing between Host and Sandbox. At the time I wasn’t aware of Windows Sandbox – Config Files which I believe is exactly where the question was going. There is MappedFolders parameter, that gives us an option to map local drive into Sandbox on user’s Desktop. Mapped folder can be Read-Only or Read&Write. Example of Windows Sandbox Config file with few additional options: WindowsSandbox.wsb

While we were busy with NTK, Microsoft rolled out few new products, services and announcements:

• Windows 10 1903 (available on VL Service Center since 21st of May, on MSDN since 4th of April)
• Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit 1.0 updated with final version of Windows 10 Version 1903 and Windows Server Version 1903 Security Baseline (more info)
• AaronLocker updated (info)
• Features in Configuration Manager technical preview version 1905 (Application groups, BitLocker management, Task sequence debugger,…)
• Microsoft Edge preview builds – Chromium-based  (Beta, Dev and Canary)
• Application Guard for Chrome und Firefox