What’s new in the Windows 10 Creators Update for IT professionals

If you are interested to learn what is new in Windows 10, version 1703 (code name: Creators Update), you can enroll on the webinar on April 27th, that will present the latest imrpovements in:  Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), IT features for management and deployment, Windows Analytics insights, UEFI conversion, mobile application management feature, and improvements in Windows as a service model.

Speakers: Nathan Mercer (Senior Marketing Manager); Michael Niehaus (Director of Product Marketing)
Time: 19:00 - 20:00 (CET)

Registration link: What’s new in the Windows 10 Creators Update for IT professionals

Global Azure Bootcamp 2107

On April 22nd, all around the world different user groups and communities will host 5th Azure Bootcamp event. It's a free one-day training event - sessions and labs based on materials from Microsoft or custom content. The event has been originally designed by 5 Microsoft Azure MVPs in order to benefit the local community members and teach essential Microsoft Azure skills and know how. While supported by several sponsors, including Microsoft, the event is completely independent and community-driven. Our goal is to provide the catalyst for Azure communities to grow around the world, not just for this one day, but year round. It will be held on 255 locations world wide.

More info can be found on the main site Global Azure Bootcamp 2017, but if you are searching for a location near you just follow this link Locations. you can follow the event on Twitter via #GlobalAzure.

The case of mistaken location of User folder

Since Windows 2000, users are able to change location on several user profile folders, such as Application Data, Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Videos,  Downloads, Music and Start menu.

I had an inquiry from an user, who while trying to change location of their Pictures folder, by mistake selected the whole drive C: (system drive) as location in the Properties tab.

While trying to Restore to Default or move it to another section, the process gets started, but due to existence of several hidden/system folders and sub folders on the system drive, the process fails.

In this case, there are few options, out of which none is that time effective or easy to be done. But, there is simple Registry "hack" you can perform to reset back to default settings.

Important: This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

With that said, and after you have done your backup (registry and the file folder content you want to move), you should do the following:

1. Click Start, then type RegEdit and hit Enter;
2. Registry editor will open, and then search for: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
3. Here you will find all the User folders (as mentioned at the beginning) with their respected locations.
4. In the top layer of the list (just after (Default.) entry), you will find several keys who's names contain series of numbers and letters and data is representing different locations on disk where the actual folders are located.In this case we were searching for the location of the Pictures folder that was represented with Value data: %SYSTEMDRIVE%\ (as shown on the picture, marked with yellow)
   
5. Delete the line from the registry, and then find the key My Pictures, Double-click to edit and change the Value data: %USERPROFILE%\Pictures
   
6. Click OK to save, close everything and reboot;
7. The Pictures folder will reset to default value, and appear in its pre-defined location under User profile.

After this, you ca nrecover the data from backup in the folder and user could finalize the process of changing location of the folder on different drive. This work around will apply for any of the User folders, in case you make similar mistake.

Microsoft Azure Trial Offer

Get in the cloud with this Azure trail offer $25 credit for 12 months when you join IT Pro Cloud Essentials. In addition to that, you can gain access to Azure hands-on experience, targeted educational materials, and access to experts support and guidance.

Click on the following link to gain access to the program: http://msft.social/spFFED.

Great opp for IT Pros to gain access to Microsoft Azure for testing purposes, for a whole year, as well as set of resources for further career development.

Macedonian IT-Pro User Group monthly meeting

On March 29th, the Macedonian IT-Pro user group will meet in Microsoft offices in Skopje. This is a quarterly technology update, covering the latest and brightest of Microsoft Datacenter and Cloud Technologies, such as - Windows Server 2016, Exchange 2016, Office 365, Azure, Intune.

Event start time: 17:30
Speakers: Vladimir Meloski and Dimitar Grozdanov
Event location: Microsoft Macedonia (location)