Microsoft Surface 2019 Lineup – Just mind-blowing!

So this post is just because Microsoft event yesterday was just…mind blowing. For the first time I must say that Microsoft completely delivered in every aspect of the event.

The perfect lineup adding exactly what fans asked for on the existing devices and than…it comes Surface Neo and of course…Surface Duo! A lot of things were said before the event but when you see the product, just couldn’t believe how perfect and consistent this product is.

And, after all of that we also have a glimpse of the new Windows OS (Windows 10X) aka Windows Core OS. This event was simply mind blowing!

So, here’s the complete lineup that was presented yesterday:

Surface Pro X

Surface Pro 7

Surface Laptop 3

Surface Neo and Surface Duo

You can view or review the full event here:

Office 365, 2019 and 2016 ADMX 4849.1000 (19/04/2019)

Microsoft launched new ADMX files for Office 365, 2019 and 2016.
The download includes the usual excel file with all the new settings available.

Download it here:
Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 2019, and Office 2016

Visual Studio 2019 Network Installs

Here’s just a very quick guide for creating a Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 network/package install

The first thing you need to do is to download the install bootstrapper that you want (Enterprise or Professional):

Visual Studio Community	vs_community.exe
Visual Studio Professional	vs_professional.exe
Visual Studio Enterprise	vs_enterprise.exe

You’ll notice that if you don’t use any parameters you’ll download a complete source of Visual Studio 2019. This means at least 35GB of source files, and I doubt you need that, so, to download exactly what you need and get a much lighter install source, follow these steps:

1. You can download only the components you need and the language you need
   
   
2. To determine the components and language IDs (this may vary between SKUs) visit this webpages:
   Workload or Components IDs
   Language IDs
   
   
3. Now that you have all you need, just run the command-line below. In this example I’m creating an offline installer for Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise that includes:
   
   - Visual Studio Core Files
   - Managed Desktop components (for C# developing for example)
   - Recommend components (a Microsoft recommended files based on components id)
   
   Command-line
   vs_enterprise__2022417084.1542710334.exe --layout C:\Temp\MSVisualStudioEnterprise2019 --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --includeRecommended --lang en-US
   
   
4. Now that you have all files, just run the following command line for silent install:
   vs_setup.exe --quiet --wait --nocache --noweb --norestart