After the upgrade of 70 computers from Windows 10 1607 to Windows 10 1709 discussed in the previous post people started complaining about a lack of toast notifications coming from Outlook 2016.
And indeed. When checking the Settings app under "System -> Notifications & Actions" there were entries for all kinds of applications but no trace of Outlook 2016 anywhere. And checking a Windows 10 1607 machine showed that it had been there before the upgrade. So something broke with the upgrade to 1709, again ...
2018-01-24
2018-01-16
Upgrading Windows 10 Enterprise 1607 to 1709 - And why useful error messages are important
As mentioned in previous posts we have about 3500 client computers and at this point somewhere around 600 of them are running Windows 10 Enterprise 1607 (the Anniversary Edition). Updates are handled through SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) and so are the Windows 10 feature upgrades (going to be).
We had already run some test with the Creators Update 1703 but only rolled that out to a handful of machines, mostly internally in the IT department. So last Friday it was finally time to test the deployment of the Fall Creators Update 1709 to about 70 clients all at the same time. We wanted to see what kind of impact this would have on the network. The 70 machines were located on two different floors and supplied by two different switches. I will not go into detail about the numbers here but one switch showed a throughput of about 500Mbit/s for around 20 minutes supplying 40 or so machines. (Later I did another upgrade and 1 machine caused a peak network usage of 180Mbit/s for about 2 minutes.) But this is not the point of this post.
We had already run some test with the Creators Update 1703 but only rolled that out to a handful of machines, mostly internally in the IT department. So last Friday it was finally time to test the deployment of the Fall Creators Update 1709 to about 70 clients all at the same time. We wanted to see what kind of impact this would have on the network. The 70 machines were located on two different floors and supplied by two different switches. I will not go into detail about the numbers here but one switch showed a throughput of about 500Mbit/s for around 20 minutes supplying 40 or so machines. (Later I did another upgrade and 1 machine caused a peak network usage of 180Mbit/s for about 2 minutes.) But this is not the point of this post.
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