Enterprise Mobility Suite

Windows 10 Education devices benchmark with Novabench and AS SSD

Here is a comparison chart between a range of Windows 10 Based Education devices.

All devices are running Windows 10 1607.
They have recently been wiped and waited for windows update to remove all flags in device management
Running on battery with more than 60% charge
Devices are joined to Intune from OOBE
Tests ran 3 times on each device (score is had minor deviations)

The devices range from Pentium to Celeron CPU and from 64 gig to 256 gig SSD. Ram is 4 gig. The results on each device differ marginally each time i run the benchmarking tool.

These devices are all really cheap and start at 1800 NOK before VAT.

Chart (In progress*):

	HP X360	Lenovo N23	Acer B1 Spin	Lenovo Yoga 11E	HP Stream 11	Dell Latitude 3189
AS SSD Score	180			1607	153	673
Novabench Score	370			479	333	534
Max price NOK incl. VAT	4081	4081	3500	Not agreed	2500	Not agreed
Specs	Intel Celeron – 4/64	Intel Celeron 4/64	Intel Celeron 4/64	Intel Celeron N3450 – 4/128	Intel Celeron N3060 – 4/64	Intel Pentium N4200 – 4/128

What can you learn from this chart? There are difference performance, so having an opinion of what is good enough can save you some extra money when selecting a device. Will the user notice a difference, mabye… or mabye not.

Just keep in mind that a student does not need a super fast disk to write essay’s in word. But he will appreciate the extra power of a better CPU when having a Skype call and editing power point at the same time.

My opinion is that disk speed is the most important aspect of the devices. Even Celeron is good enough.

Here are the individual images from each test:

HP X360

Lenovo Yoga 11E

HP Stream 11

Dell Latitude 3189

Acer B118 Spin

Lenovo N23

August 10, 2017 0

Surface Pro 4 Windows 10 Education Edition Intune Enrollment

Here is a video of how long time it takes to unbox, clean and setup a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 Education and enroll it into Intune.

To enter Surface UEFI press pwr on and hold volume up. Release pwr button once you see the device turns on. Keep holding the volume up untill you se the UEFI.

Please keep in mind that these test are real life and include some lag typing in email and passwords plus some clicking. This would be a realistic scenario. This even Includes MFA on enrollment.

Here is a summary of the times:

Wipe drive and clean to OOBE – 16 min 57 sec
OOBE to Windows – 2 mins 34 sec

Tech specs:

8Gig Ram
256 Gig SSD
Intel Pentium I5
Windows 10 Education 1607
Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (WICD)

Here are the configurations in WICD:

Here is the complete video:

Clean install with WICD

OOBE to Windows

Other tests on EDU devices:

HP X360 Education Edition

Lenovo N23 Education Edition

Acer B118 Spin Education Edition

April 10, 2017 0

Acer B118 Spin Education Edition Intune Enrollment

Here is a video of how long time it takes to unbox and setup a Acer B1 Spin with Windows 10 Education and enroll it into Intune.

To enter Acer UEFI press F2 – Here you can enable the F12 Boot menu which is disabled by default.

Here is a summary of the times:

Wipe drive and clean to OOBE – 22 min 52 sec
OOBE to Windows – 3 mins 31 sec
Switch user – 46 sec

Tech specs:

4 Gig Ram
64 Gig SSD
Intel Celeron 1,4 GHZ
Windows 10 Education 1607
Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (WICD)

Here are the configurations in WICD:

Here is the complete video:

Clean install with WICD

OOBE to Windows

New user switch

Other tests on EDU devices:

HP X360 Education Edition

Lenovo N23 Education Edition

April 7, 2017 0

*Updated Comparison chart Intune enrollment with Education Devices

Here is the comparison chart for the new Education Devices from HP, Lenovo and Acer.

UPDATED: Lenovo Yoga and Dell Latitude

This should illustrate how long time it takes for a student to setup his PC. On Wipe drive i used WICD, On Intune Enrollment I typed the email and waited for MFA. The actual clean logon without user intervention is much faster. On the new user switch, the device was not prepared with Setup My School PC for true multi user. The time it takes is for Windows to prepare a loaner PC or allow a student to borrow another PC in a 1-1 scenario

Chart:

	HP X360	Lenovo N23	Acer B118 Spin	Surface Pro 4	Lenovo Yoga 11e	Dell Latitude 3189
Wipe drive and clean to OOBE	21 min 21 sec	26 min 21 sec	22 min 52 sec	16 min 57 sec	19 min 14 sec	21 min 58 sec
OOBE to Windows	4 min 7 sec	4 min 46 sec	3 min 31 sec	2 min 34 sec	4 min 46 sec	3 min 58 sec
Switch to new user	34 sec	56 sec	46 sec		34 sec	35 sec
Specs	Intel Pentium 4/128	Intel Celeron 4/64	Intel Celeron 4/64	Intel Core i5 8/256	Intel Pentium 4/128	Intel Celeron 4/128

Note that during the OOBE and user switching i actually typed in information, hence the benchmark is subject to my typing speed.

Here are the individual tests:

April 7, 2017 0

Lenovo N23 Education Edition Intune Enrollment

Here is a video of how long time it takes to unbox and setup a Lenovo N23 Education Edition with Windows 10 Education and enroll it into Intune.

To access the UEFI Boot menu Press F12 during boot

Here is a summary of the times:

Wipe drive and clean to OOBE – 26 mins 21sec
OOBE to Windows – 4 mins 46 sec
Switch to a new user (first time logon) – 56 sec

Tech specs:

4 Gig Ram
64 Gig SSD
Intel Celeron 1,4 GHZ
Windows 10 Education 1607
Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (WICD)

Here are the configurations in WICD:

Here is the videos:

Clean install

Intune Enrollment

New user switch

Other tests on EDU devices:

HP X360 Education Edition

Acer B118 Spin

April 6, 2017 0

HP X360 Education Edition Intune Enrollment

Here is a video of how long time it takes to unbox and setup a HP X360 ProBook G1 EE with Windows 10 Education and enroll it into Intune. You do not have to clean this device. It comes with a clean Win 10 Pro EDU image and is ready for the classroom.

If you have to clean the device using WICD/USB then Boot selection / Boot menu is the F9 key

HP ProBook X360 G1 Education Edition UEFI / BIOS menu is the Esc key.

Here is a summary of the times:

Wipe drive and clean to OOBE – 21 mins 21 sec
OOBE to Windows – 4 mins 7 sec
Switch to a new user – 34 sec

Tech specs:

4 Gig Ram
128 Gig SSD
Intel Pentium 1,4 GHZ
Windows 10 Education 1607
Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (WICD)

Here are the configurations in WICD:

Here is the videos:

Clean install

Intune Enrollment

New user switch

Other tests on EDU devices:

Acer Switch B1

Lenovo N23

April 6, 2017 0

Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics – False positive

The scenario here is that a company has hired an external consultant. The consultant was on vacation and sick for a total of about 1 month.

Once back at work he started accessing the system and doing this work. Immediately ATA became suspicious and sendt out an alert.

mail-warning-ata

ATA flagged the behavior as abnormal due to the consultant being away for such a long period of time.

identity-theft-ata

This said, a lot of companies are not closing down consultant accounts after they are done working. Some keep them open waiting for “next incident” and some just forget to remove them.

ATA can help you to keep track of this and alerts you if a old consultancy account is stolen.