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Outlook 2010 tip – multiple Exchange profiles

Posted Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:03 PM by adhall
A new capability in Outlook 2010 is the ability to sync with multiple Exchange Servers. To do this, you must close down Outlook and configure using the Control Panel > Mail applet. This is useful for a number of scenarios when you maintain a mailbox Read More...
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What’s New in Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2 (available now)

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:44 AM by adhall
Today the availability of MDOP 2009 R2 has been announced . MDOP is a set of 6 technologies (currently, this may expand over time) that increase desktop manageability, reduce your TCO, and allow for rapid technology adoption. They are: Microsoft Application Read More...
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TechEd 2009 NZ Online

Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:50 AM by adhall
Just a quick note to let you know that Tech Ed Online is now live for New Zealand.  www.microsoft.co.nz/teched From here you can access: NZ Videos (the full Keynote, 15+ full  Breakout sessions, 25 Studio TechTalks, and 18 Roaming TechTalks) Read More...
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Windows 7 testing and deployment quick start guide

Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:25 PM by adhall
The previous version of this guide was posted prior to the Windows 7 RTM. This has now been updated with some additional information and new links. As before, this guide is to help with getting started quickly and is not intended to replace the official Read More...
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Microsoft Technology Solutions Part 1 – Reducing Cost

Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:17 PM by adhall
In the scene setting post of this series I mapped out a set of 3 Microsoft technology areas where we are helping our customers  – Reducing Cost, Getting Agile and Efficient, and coping with Growth. In this post, I’m going to cover ‘Step One’ on the Read More...
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Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts – the complete list

Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 12:41 PM by adhall
There has been a lot of articles written about the new Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts. Well, here is the single source of truth, as posted on the Microsoft website. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/Keyboard-shortcuts Ease of Access keyboard shortcuts Read More...
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Windows 7 Tips and Tricks – a huge list of resources

Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 4:24 PM by adhall
Another Microsoft ATS, Craig Swartz has posted an awesome list of Windows 7 resources, tips and tricks. The original post is here: http://blogs.technet.com/cswartz/archive/2009/06/15/windows-7-inside-tips.aspx He has also posted some links to What’s New Read More...
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Get deploying! Assessment and Planning Toolkit v4

Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 1:29 PM by adhall
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the Read More...
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Automating management with the new Active Directory Web Service

Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 2:19 PM by adhall
One of the changes to Active Directory in Windows Server 2008 R2 is the Active Directory Web Service. This is the Web Service that operations performed against AD using amongst other things the Active Directory PowerShell module actually makes calls to. Read More...
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Search is Dead.

Posted Sunday, May 31, 2009 9:25 PM by adhall
Finding stuff is easy.  Finding stuff fast is quite easy.  Find the right stuff, now that is not always so easy. Google has done a great job of finding stuff.  And fast.  But does it find the right stuff?  I think a fair answer Read More...
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Information Management – Removing Risk to save Money

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 8:57 AM by adhall
What price do you put on your information?  If your IP, your business confidential information, your go to market strategy, or your takeover plans were available to the public and your competitors, what would that cost you? Risk reduction as a cost Read More...
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Creating Business Agility through an Optimized Desktop

Posted Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:22 PM by adhall
I am working on a scenario at the moment involving the deployment of Office 2007.  The customer has a fairly traditional desktop environment, with an image based deployment containing common applications using SCCM ( System Center Configuration Manager Read More...
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Core Infrastructure Optimization – moving from Basic to Standardized to Rationalized

Posted Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:04 PM by adhall
Something I have had saved in my Draft Blogs for a while now is to post these links to the detailed guidance on how you actually move up the capability model. These documents contain a huge amount of information about what capabilities you will need, Read More...
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What does the CIO care about in 2009?

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:05 PM by adhall
The annual CIO magazine article, published in January 2009 (refer http://computerworld.com.edgesuite.net/cio/pdfs/2009_state_of_the_cio_highlights.pdf ) shows the importance of the goals of the IO Model and the links in my previous post. The article linked Read More...
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Optimization - Connecting Business to IT

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:30 PM by adhall
One of the hardest things for technical people to learn is how to have a conversation with ‘The Business’.  They speak a whole different language, care about different things, and they just hate ‘getting caught up in the detail’. Well, the optimization Read More...
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