2Pint Software monthly roundup - October Edition

Welcome to this month's roundup of 2Pint Software expertise in the endpoint management, deployment, and recovery space. This month a large group of 2Pinters were in Nashville for MMS Music City 2025 where our CEO hosted a Women in Tech Lunch, and our team of experts presented on a wide range of topics. Conference aside, our team of experts also shared their knowledge in several blog posts. Let’s dive in!

Our own Brian Mason welcomed his 2Pint Software colleagues and other systems configuration management professionals to Nashville for MMS Music City from Oct. 13th to 15th. One of the highlights was the Women in Tech Lunch hosted by our CEO, Michelle Hammarskjöld. The lunch was well attended and gave women and their industry allies a chance to connect and collaborate around the opportunities and challenges facing women working in technology fields such as endpoint management.

The team showcased DeployR with a rolling schedule of in-person demos. Our booth was buzzing with excitement as conference attendees gathered to watch the magic happen.

In technical panels delivered across three days Johan Arwidmark, Mike Terrill, Michael Niehaus, and Gary Blok shared their insights into topics including app deployment with Intune, upgrading to Windows 11, customizing Autopilot provisioning, mastering Secure Boot, the future of image-based Windows OS deployment, and using PowerShell for OEM tools, device management and operating system deployment.

Michael Niehaus has been busy as usual. In early October, he released an update to his UEFIv2 module to make it compatible with PowerShell 7 and .NET Core. He’s made it available under the MIT License for greater flexibility to use, modify, or distribute it. Head over to his blog for a download link to the PowerShell Gallery.

Michael also pulled on a loose thread regarding Windows update file sizes that surfaced at MMS Music City. As pointed out in a session, the monthly cumulative update for Windows 1125H2 was close to 4 GB and speculation was that it was due to bundled AI models. In his blog post, Niehaus methodically investigates the growth in Windows 24H2 cumulative updates, the underlying causes, and the broader implications. He followed that up a couple of days later, reporting on the experience of upgrading a Windows 10 VM to Windows 11 25H2 using a 7 GB ISO, only to discover that the setup process pulled down over 4 GB of additional update packages before first boot — roughly the equivalent of 60% of the original media.

As Michael’s posts remind us, whether upgrading via ISO or applying monthly updates, systems administrators need to anticipate substantial download and storage requirements when planning OS deployment, image-based upgrades, or distribution-point management. Get in touch or visit our product pages to learn how you can leverage StifleR and our other software to optimize content updates and strategically manage bandwidth.

Late in October two of our engineers, Mattias Benninge and Niklas Larsson, hosted a webinar introducing folks to CacheR, one of the tools in our product suite. Mattias and Niklas showcased CacheR’s capabilities for efficiently managing content distribution and gaining full visibility into both content at rest in the local cache of endpoints and real-time content downloads. CacheR enables pre-caching to ensure optimal peering performance and bandwidth conservation. Want to learn more? Head over to the CacheR product page.

To round out the month, in a post on his Tech Blog, Mike Terrill warns that if you are doing OS deployments or upgrades via ConfigMgr and using BranchCache on distribution points running Windows Server 2022 or 2025 — you might bump into download issues when delivering large files (e.g. install.wim). He explains how he was able to reproduce the problem and suggests a workaround: disabling HTTP/2 on either the client or the BranchCache-enabled server. For a PowerShell script to disable it, visit his post where you'll find a link to his GitHub.

We’ll close things off with Mike’s zinger of a tweet trolling the Intune folks. Following a promotional post touting Ignite as the best place to upgrade Intune technical knowledge, Mike asked Copilot which is better: Ignite or MMS MOA? Turns out Copilot knows where things are at. 😉

Are you sure about that? Copilot seems to think otherwise. https://t.co/1HqUHvZNBE pic.twitter.com/ipjMHxBAV5

— Mike Terrill [MVP] (@miketerrill) October 31, 2025