SOE Development
SOE Development
Agenda
• Latest developments for Windows 10
• Reflecting on SOE in 2019
• Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Life
Latest Developments for Windows 10
• Windows 10 1809
• Future Releases
• School Managed Feature Updates
• Unsupported OS Lock Screen
Feature Update Workstation Count
Windows 10 1607 3,041
Windows 10 1703 12,183
Windows 10 1803 51,616
Windows 10 1809 15,437
Windows 7 Pro 15,527
Unsupported 2,136
Windows 10 1809
• Available from 12th September 2019
• Development required– McAfee Client version update– SCCM upgraded to v1810
• End of Life on 11th May 2021– 1.5 years of support after release
• Check Dashboard for your school to identify workstations that require upgrade
Future Releases
• Change in plan for rolling out future updates
• Moving to only releasing xx09 Feature Updates– 30 months of support for xx09 vs 18 months for xx03 releases– Less time spent on developing for new Feature Updates– Less time spent updating workstations for schools
• Once per year instead of twice
School Managed Feature Updates
• Initially released in Term 1, 2019– Included Telemetry for upgrade process
• Quality of Life Improvements released in Term 3, 2019– Windows Update clean up– Profile clean up
• How Schools can help to improve upgrade times– Turn off scheduled shutdowns when an upgrade is scheduled
Target Feature Update Minimum Runtime Maximum Runtime Average Runtime
Windows 10 1803 01:07:26 19:09:53 02:07:54
Windows 10 1809 00:46:10 17:06:16 02:04:56
Unsupported OS Lock Screen
Unsupported OS Lock Screen
• Supporting the Department’s N and N-1 Feature Update strategy
• Easy to highlight workstations that require an upgrade
• Directions to IKON for the process to upgrade a workstation
Reflecting on SOE in 2019
• SOE 4.6
• Microsoft Store developments
• Offsite Locations
• Outreach
• Stale Workstation Clean Up
SOE 4.6
• Dell PowerEdge T440• Server Refresh
– Progressive refresh of all servers going out of warranty
– Current refresh ends in January
– Next refresh February - June
Server Role Changelog
Virtual Host Windows Hyper-V Server 2016
RODC Windows Server 2016SQL Server Express removed
SLICE (Optional) Centos 7.5
Terminal Server Windows Server 2012 R2Office 2016 subset
MessageYou Windows Server 2016SQL Server 2014
WebPrint Server Windows Server 2016Office 2016 subset
Microsoft Store developments
• Minecraft: Education Edition release Term 4, 2018
• Process for approving applications in development
• Delivery Optimization– Ongoing investigation to improve peer-caching
Offsite Locations
• Sites not large enough to host onsite server– Small number of staff (< 10 staff)– No hosted printing– No remote drives (except H: drive)
• Linked to a Host Site for shared infrastructure
• Network devices only
Windows 7 End of Life
Windows 7 End of Life
• December 20, 2019• Communications
– Lock screens– Targeted emails
Windows Server 2008 End of Life
• End of Life January 14, 2020• Last round of patches will be deployed in February 2020
• Projects underway for migrating Centrally Managed services away from Server 2008/2008R2
• Recommend moving off of Server 2008/2008 R2
SOE Improvements Procedure
User raises Request for Improvement
Assigned to SOE team for Technical Assessment
SOE Improvements Meeting led by business
Business contacts user to inform why it has been
deniedApproval?
Business lodges ticket with SOE team
SOE Team adds Improvement Request to
backlog
No
Yes
Internal Team raises Request for
Improvement
Q&A
• Thank you for listening
• Any questions?