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- Coming up, I'll walk you through Windows Analytics,
and the latest capabilities across Upgrade Readiness,
Update Compliance, and Device Help.
If you're new to Windows Analytics,
this allows you to manage your upgrades to Windows 10
and subsequent feature updates,
stay current with quality and security updates,
and proactively identify and mitigate issues
to reduce support costs, all in one unified view.
Over the past few months,
we added some new features based on your feedback.
We now allow you to assess the status of your device against
the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.
There are also new ways to help you optimize
your network bandwidth as you roll out your updates,
with something that we call delivery optimization.
And now, you can even access detailed reports
on Application Reliability, as well as logon information
about your devices.
To get started with Windows Analytics you'll need to add
the Windows Analytics solutions to an OMS workspace.
The quickest way to find it is to follow the link shown.
If you are new to Azure or OMS, click new customer.
I already have an account, so I'll select existing customer.
Windows Analytics is already added to this workspace,
so now you can start to configure your devices.
Here I'm using the local group policy editor
to enable diagnostic telemetry data.
This ensures that you can receive assessments
and recommendations tailored to your PC environment.
To learn more about setup,
check out our previous Mechanics shows,
or our getting started guide.
First, lets look at Upgrade Readiness.
This solution allows you to plan and manage Windows upgrades
and feature updates.
As you can see here, we give you a comprehensive inventory
of your environment.
And, you can select the version of Windows that you're
planning to migrate to.
Then, we take you through a four step workflow
to plan and manage your feature update,
or Windows upgrade project end to end.
Let take a look at the workflow.
The first step here is about identifying the set
of applications that are important to your organization.
Clicking into this blade gives you the ability to rate
how important each app is in your case,
from Ignore to Mission critical.
Next, we help you rationalize over your important
applications to ensure that they're ready to upgrade.
You can see here, if any of your apps or drivers have
issues known to Microsoft.
When you click in, you can also see our
recommended remediation.
In this next blade you can see a list of low risk
apps and drivers.
And we also provide a prioritized list of apps and drivers
that may require additional validation.
Scrolling further, you can see your device
is becoming ready to upgrade, and you can deploy
the upgrade or feature update
using system center configuration manager,
or your management tool of choice.
Once you've started your deployment,
step four in the workflow gives you the ability
to monitor your progress, as well as see how your devices
are performing post upgrade.
And that's the core Upgrade Readiness experience.
New this year, we've added a Spectre and Meltdown assessment
to help you address these vulnerabilities.
The Spectre and Meltdown assessment provides insight into
the status of your devices across three areas.
First, you can verify that your devices are running
a supported anti-virus solution.
Second, you can check to make sure your devices have
Spectre and Meltdown related OS updates
installed and enabled.
And third, you can make sure that your devices have related
firmware or microcode updates installed and enabled.
One tip here, to get the full value out of this assessment,
you'll need to make sure you white list
the following endpoint in your PC environment.
This will ensure your computers are able to receive the most
up to date information that Microsoft has available
about Spectre and Meltdown related mitigation.
Next, to keep tabs on the security and compliance
of your PC environment, Windows Analytics Update Compliance
allows you to look at the status of your Windows 10
devices across quality, security, and feature updates,
and surfaces up relevant insights.
On the home page we can see if any devices require attention
for being on an out of support version of Windows,
or being several months behind on security updates,
as well as any devices that have recently encountered
update issues.
We've also recently added a new capability
that many of you have requested
called Delivery Optimization Status.
If you're not familiar with Delivery Optimization,
it allows you to use peer to peer sharing
to minimize the impact of large updates on your
network bandwidth.
Before Delivery Optimization, if all of your users
are updated from internet based sources,
each PC would download the same payload,
with a large impact on your network.
By enabling Delivery Optimization,
only a subset of your devices need to download
the payload for the internet, and then they can share
the bits locally with the remaining devices.
With Update Compliance, you're able to see which devices
are configured to receive
updates from different sources,
as well as the total bandwidth being used across
each content source.
You can see your bandwidth savings by percentage,
or by total number of gigabytes.
Using this report, you can optimize your network
configuration and settings to realize the full potential
of Delivery Optimization.
Finally Device Help for your Windows 10 devices provides
an overall view of device and driver reliability,
as well as as app reliability, and logon health.
We've had device and driver reliability reporting
to identify system crashes cause by drivers,
and system processes, for a while now.
And, we've recently added App Reliability
to get a view of Win32 executables,
and UWP app reliability events.
By clicking in, you'll see more details.
You could use this information to change driver
or application versions to ones that are more reliable
in your environment.
And you can even compare your crash rate
versus comparable commercial averages.
And to help with your transition
to modern asymmetric authentication with Windows Hello,
we've added metrics to logon types, from facial recognition,
to fingerprint, and pin based logons.
You can use this report to inform decisions.
For example, as you begin to phase out password logon,
you can see if anything is effecting the reliability
of Windows Hello logons.
If the success rates are low, you can click in
to get a deeper analysis, and take corrective actions.
Now Device Help has a few special considerations
in terms of setup.
You can learn more about the requirements at the link shown.
So that was an overview of Windows Analytics
along with our new capabilities.
Remember, Windows Analytics is a free service.
To get started, you can check out the link shown.
And as always, keep giving us your feedback.
Thanks for watching.
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