Nate’s Nuggets About Engineering for the World of Modern Management
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Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM Part – 3 Upgrading Hardware and adding TPM
Read more: Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM Part – 3 Upgrading Hardware and adding TPMThe last piece of the puzzle is often upgrading the VM. Before you can add a vTPM, your environment needs to meet a few prerequisites: For the purpose of this guide, we’ll assume that you already have vCenter Server 6.7+ deployed and that virtual machine encryption and KMS are configured in your environment. These initial…
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Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM Part – 2 Converting to GPT/EFI
Read more: Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM Part – 2 Converting to GPT/EFISo, you made it past part 1, thank you. I thought I lost you there. As I mentioned before, in the virtual environment, many IT admins didn’t update the disk configuration in the template when we transitioned from Windows 7 to Windows 10. GPT/EFI is the starting point to get us where we need to…
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Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM – Part – 1
Read more: Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM – Part – 1The clock is ticking! October 14, 2025, marks the official End of Life (EOL) for Windows 10 Enterprise. After this date, Windows 10 will no longer receive patches or security updates from Microsoft, essentially becoming unsupported. While it might continue to function, running an unsupported OS poses significant security risks. If you work in the…
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In the Beginning
Read more: In the BeginningHello and welcome! If you’re navigating the ever-evolving landscape of endpoint management, from Intune and SCCM to Azure and Entra ID, you’ve found a resource to add to your tool belt. My name is Nathan (Nate) Lockwood, and for over 28 years, I’ve been building, deploying, and optimizing Windows environments. My journey started back in…