I’m just trying to get an idea of the issues people have had since the update. This morning, I woke up to my home machine having done the update and the screen kept refreshing every 30 seconds or so. Now, in the office, I’m curious what sort of problems will arise.
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codyworks
(cworks22)
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Got the update last night, we haven’t yet noticed any issues on our domain, but I’ve only been at work for about an hour and the GPO changes they pushed out shouldn’t really affect us. Hopefully you’re in the same boat!
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Check Your Video Driver It Might be Not Compatable to Your OS.
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Thanks, I’m not worried about my home machine. I’ll troubleshoot that later. I’m more interested in hearing about possible issues at work. Perhaps things will go smoothly.
inkmaster
(InkMaster)
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I’ve manually upgraded my 2 work laptops, home laptop, home desktop, and Surface Pro 3 and haven’t noticed any issues.
If anything, the video is working better. I have 3 x 27" monitors at work on a Dell E7550 and docking station. Prior to the upgrade, I would have issues where one of the monitors would go in and out.
No issues so far with group policies that I have noticed.
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I’ve upgraded a few PCs myself, and only come across one issue where the device had a black screen of death. I restarted it and it completed the upgrade. Not sure what the deal was, but…
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My issue with 1607 is the bloody lock screen. WHY. I don’t want it. Now the registry tweak doesn’t work. Small things like that annoy me.
The thing with upgrade issues is they can be fixed. “Features” can’t if M$ doesn’t allow it.
I find it funny that now people are talking about downgrading to 7 Pro after this ‘upgrade’
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Oh just found a nice issue. I cannot browse to select new lock screen image (if I’m stuck with it I’ll frickin’ choose it thank you). No registry changes I’ve made. Thanks…
Disclaimer: I haven’t deployed Windows 10 in my environment, but I have started experimenting with it on the domain. I installed the Anniversary update on one test VM a few hours ago, so this is just my first impressions.
Since applying the anniversary update to one of my test computers, I get an error if I log in with a roaming profile. The anniversary update increments the roaming profile to .v6, and the folder is created when I try to login, but no files are written to it. Logging in with a pre-anniversary PC works (as well as roaming profiles can be said to be working in Win10). I haven’t been able to test it yet, but I have a feeling the settings from the .v5 profile will not be automatically imported to the .v6. I hope I’m wrong because it would essentially mean having to reconfigure every user’s profile from scratch, again.
Also, the power, logoff, and settings buttons on the start menu are subtle and tiny, unless you know to click the three horizontal lines at the top of the start menu. I’m sure a good portion of my end users would be calling me if I had rolled this out.
Updated group policy templates are not up on the MS site yet, but the reference excel sheet are. I haven’t found a break down outlining the changes yet, other than the policies that have been disable from Prof edition. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25250
I had hoped the Anniversary update would allow me to roll out Windows 10, but its not ready for business use. If anything this update went in the opposite direction. Do I want really my clerks playing Candy Crush or being prompted to install the Facebook app?
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efournes2
(efournes2)
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The Anniversary Update removed one of my partition letters (Q: drive, first logical/extended partition on a drive with two primaries and the one extended on a secondary hard drive). Win 10 Pro, home computer.
My wife’s laptop, two drives, the first primary partition on the second drive (D:) was wiped. That is, the partition information was corrupted or missing after the update. I’m going to have to use a Linux-based forensics software to try to restore it tomorrow.
WTF MS??? What could there possibly need to be in a patch that would cause Windows to rewrite and/or corrupt a partition table on a secondary hard drive!?! Drive letters, I could understand, but losing a partition table entry?
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… for me it caused some issues with my NAS and home network shares - some SMB issues which I could not resolve via registry or other settings. I had to restore to a previous build to fix.
Also I noticed IE was completely removed from the Anniversary update as well.
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See: Windows 10 cheat sheet | Computerworld
Some are recommending that you not run the update due to multiple problems with Win10 AU. Disk access is crippled in many cases (drives appear to lose their file structure). Broken drivers and system lockups have occurred after the update, and more. Also be aware that the default rollback period has been altered from 30 days to 10 days.
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efournes2
(efournes2)
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A bit of good news with my broken drive partitions… I removed the drive and plugged it into an old box running XP that I have and it had no problem reading the drive. Plugged the drive into a different Win 10 machine and same thing as the laptop–it’s a 1 TB drive, Win 10 sees it as 1.3 TB with three partitions, about 860, 240, and 260 GB. XP sees it as it should be, 1 TB with a 1 TB partition.
The moral: If you lose drives/partitions, connect them to another computer running an older OS.
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I have two machines that are acting like they have a slow Internet connection. Everything is so slow and often says not responding. Ugh!!!
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DoctorDNS
(DoctorDNS)
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I have had TWO machines auto update. Machines that NEVER had updates set to be done automitcally - I woke themup and saw that AE had been forcibly loaded on them. These are two key systems for me that I have taken care to only ever update WHEN I SAY SO. I am really annoyed.
The first update, my main workstation, was a disaster. The dual monitors did not work, I had app compat issues with a couple of applications but then I found that Hyper-V’s VMConnect did not connect to a VM. I rely on VMs way too much for that to ge any use - so I resorted. See Under The Stairs: Windows 10 Anniversary Edition–You’re Fired! .
The second system was my laptop. I use this to record and produce video training plus I present with it when I teach. I woke up, 30 minutes before a trans-europe online training course was to start - only to find I’d been upgraded there too. Turns out that most things work, except the on-line labs. There’s a kind of work around, but trying to demo labs when they break due to forced upgrades is really aggrivating.
I am really annoyed at how time after time, MS seems to think a forced upgrade is acceptable?
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Tfl, how did you disable updates? I ask because I’m using Group Policy to disable auto updates and wondered if I am going to see the same thing.
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DoctorDNS
(DoctorDNS)
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Both machines were set to download updates, but with me determining when to install and reboot. WHY can’t MSFT respect that setting?
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Just installed the update on my work machine - stupidly didnt use a sandbox bu direct to machine (bad times)
NIC is reporting it is no longer connected to internet - yet im suing said machine to post this message?
Outlook is disconnected from exchange. All other (non anniversary updates) Win10 machines are fine
anyone else?
