Microsoft PowerToys – PowerRename

Microsoft PowerToys was a very famous set of tools in Windows 95 era designed for power users that wanted to do some things quickly with the need to edit registry for example.

Although less famous nowadays, there’s still plenty of good things for Windows 10.
One of this nice tools is PowerRename.

Every wonder how to batch rename a lot of files quickly? PowerToys PowerRename is your answer!

Take a look here for release notes about PowerRename:
Microsoft PowerToys – PowerRename

And here’s a direct link for installers for each release (at this time 0.13 version is available):
Microsoft PowerToys Releases (GitHub)

Tips&Tricks – Adobe Software – New Releases RSS Feeds

You’re a SysAdmin and need a way to always be up-to-date with new releases of Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player?

Just subscribe to this 2 RSS feeds:

Adobe Reader Releases

Adobe Flash Player Releases

Win10 – Windows as a Service – Wrap-Up and Resources

One of the most “dramatic” changes with Windows 10, specially for an enterprise, is the new (not so new now) Windows as a Service (Waas) model.

This basically means that Windows 10 is now on a continuous development, where users get feature and quality updates in a nice and defined timeline.

Feature Updates are deployed 2 times per year and does a in-place upgrade to the machine installing new features on Windows 10.

Quality Updates are monthly and cumulative updates for Windows 10 with no new features.
Just security updates; bug fixes; driver fixes; etc..

This new and continuous development presents a lot of new challenges for system administrators.
One of this challenges is to keep up with everything that changes on the Feature Updates and what’s fixed on the monthly Quality Updates.
There are a couple of things that should be done to anticipate issues and that’s have some users on the IT department as Windows Insiders so they can get the changes way before the corporate users.

Because there’s also a lot of information and things going on between this updates, it’s also important to have a centralized (well, in this case, various) points of information about the different releases and work in progress.

Here’s a list of important website to keep up-to-date with Windows 10 WaaS:

Windows 10 Roadmap

Windows 10 Update History

Windows 10 release information 

What's new in Windows 10

ChangeWindows – Keeping Track of Windows Releases

Since Windows 10 and the Windows Insider program, a lot of releases have been brought to Windows users and a variaty of devices like PCs, Mobiles, HoloLens and even IoT.

With all flavours available flavours for fixes and updates, from Fast Ring to Long Term Support Ring, it’s not an easy task to keep track of everything available, what new features get available or which things get fixed.

Thinking on that,, Studio 384 done a terrific job with ChangeWindows app.
With this app you’ll be able to keep track of everything launched, for each device type, what was released, what’s coming next, etc.

Install the app right way here:
Studio 384 - ChangeWindows App