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  • Blog Post: Windows 7 post SP1 patch relief

    I've been getting this question a lot lately.  is there a rollup for Windows 7 Post SP1?   Well now there is. An enterprise hotfix rollup is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511 This article describes a hotfix rollup for Windows...
    on12 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Refresh Your PC - Save your bacon!

    Thursday morning I did something to my main laptop that I really should not have done, and the results were disastrous.  I succeeded in completely wrecking my installation of Windows 8 .  I was able to boot into the OS , but as soon as I tried to launch any application my system went into an...
    on19 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: 22 Free Microsoft eBooks to Add to Your Must Read List

    During the summer months, I always try to catch up on my must read list. These are books that are perfect to read at the cottage on long weekends, when I’m off on vacation, or even when I’m travelling for work. For the work you do, it’s a little different; you’re probably not...
    on8 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: The Top 5 Learning Resources to Brush Up on Your Skills This Summer

    Summer is a great time of year. The weather is nice, the sun shines, there’s no snow to shovel or try to drive through. It’s also a time of year when the traffic on the roads gets a little lighter and the office is a less busy. You might even get the chance to leave a few hours early on a...
    on23 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Tick, Tock…Getting Close to the End of the XP Clock

    April 8, 2014 . No it’s not the predicted end of the world, thought it may seem that way for some. It’s the end of support for Windows XP SP3. Windows XP has been a great Operating System and feedback I get is that it’s stable and who doesn’t like stable. In fact, I remember...
    on14 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Gérer les drivers dans MDT 2010, Partie 3 – Bien choisir sa méthode pour les fichiers INF

    Continuing with our theme of how to make use of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 , here we have the third and final post of a 3-part series for our French-speaking readers on how to manage drivers using MDT 2010 to help ensure your deployment of Windows 7 on your new PCs works well. The series is...
    on7 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Gérer les drivers dans MDT 2010, Partie 2 – Quelle stratégie à adopter ?

    Continuing with our theme of how to make use of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 , here we have the second post of a 3-part series for our French-speaking readers on how to manage drivers using MDT 2010 to help ensure your deployment of Windows 7 on your new PCs works well. The series is written...
    on30 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Gérer les drivers dans MDT 2010, Partie 1 – Les drivers fournis sous forme d’application

    Continuing with our theme of how to make use of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 , here we have the first of a 3-part series for our French-speaking readers on how to manage drivers using MDT 2010 to help ensure your deployment of Windows 7 on your new PCs works well.  The series is written...
    on23 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Déployer Windows 7 avec MDT 2010, Partie 4 – Utilisation la base de donnée dans MDT

    This post is the fourth and final post in a 4-part series for our French-speaking readers on how to use MDT 2010 to deploy Windows 7 in your environment. The series is written by Yannick Plavonil , a Microsoft MVP based in Quebec. You can find this and more on his own blog – Revue du Geek . Let me know...
    on16 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Déployer Windows 7 avec MDT 2010, Partie 3 – Déployer une image référence Windows 7

    This post is the third post in a 4-part series for our French-speaking readers on how to use MDT 2010 to deploy Windows 7 in your environment. The series is written by Yannick Plavonil , a Microsoft MVP based in Quebec. You can find this and more on his own blog – Revue du Geek . Let me know what other...
    on9 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Déployer Windows 7 avec MDT 2010, Partie 2 – Creer une image référence Windows 7

    This post is the second in a  4-part series for our French-speaking readers on how to use MDT 2010 to deploy Windows 7 in your environment. The series is written by Yannick Plavonil , a Microsoft MVP based in Quebec. You can find this and more on his own blog – Revue du Geek . Let me know what other...
    on2 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Déployer Windows 7 avec MDT 2010, Partie 1 - Installation du serveur

    This post is the start of 4-part series for our French-speaking readers on how to use MDT 2010 to deploy Windows 7 in your environment. The series is written by Yannick Plavonil , a Microsoft MVP based in Quebec. You can find this and more on his own blog – Revue du Geek . Let me know what other...
    on26 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Découvrir les outils pour mener à bien votre déploiement windows 7

    One of the challenges I face is how to properly serve the French-speaking IT Professionals out there.  I don’t write French very well and others on the team are, unfortunately, primarily English speakers.  I suppose that if I wanted to I could craft a blog post or two in Croatian since this...
    on19 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Managing Your Servers Remotely using the RSAT Tools

    While delivering IT Virtualization Boot Camps across the country, Mitch Garvis and I often get asked about how to administer Windows Server 2008 R2 computers running Hyper-V or other services remotely.  This is especially true if you want to administer computers running Hyper-V Server or Windows...
    on24 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: How I preserve that new PC smell.

    While participating in a discussion on LinkedIn ( http://linkd.in/r3WJPl ) where we were discussing what are the different processes\habits that people have in order to setup a newly acquired machine, i decided to document my own process. I personally use a mix of WinPE and ImageX to image the machine...
    on21 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 in TechNet DL

    It’s There! Both in a single standalone x86/x86 install ISO and integrated ISO. It popped up around noon PST or so – I can almost hear the internet pipes buzzing as people Technical Professionals around the world download this anticipated update. What are they most excited about? It has to be Dynamic...
    on16 Feb 2011

  • Blog Post: Freaked out about Deployment of Win 7 and where to start?

    My good Friend Jeff Alexander over on the other side of the world down under (he’s THE infrastructure evangelist for Australia) posted up this nifty link and tool. It’s part of the big glob of stuff called Springboard, whenever something cool and useful bubbles up I want to make sure you know about it...
    on1 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: Desktop Image Consolidation–Notes From the Field

    I was having an IM conversation with Brian at CMS Consulting about some deployment work and how IT departments support the desktops computers in their environment.  A few days later Jason Cotton, a senior consultant at CMS Consulting Inc., sent the following in.  It is a great article with...
    on20 Aug 2010

  • Blog Post: Getting serious about OS Deployment with MDT 2010 Update 1

    Over at the Windows team blog – Stephen Rose wrote about the new RTM update of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 to what’s known as Update 1. For those of you familiar with MDT already – this shouldn’t be a surprise to you – it’s an incremental update that has been...
    on8 Jul 2010

  • Blog Post: Windows 7 Live Talk Webcast: Deployment Tips from Early Adopters

    There are a lot of webcasts, videocasts and resources available for those planning, piloting, deploying or managing Windows 7 at the Microsoft Springboard site.  There are case studies and stories of deployment success and while still relevant they are typically based around US customers and scenarios...
    on4 May 2010

  • Blog Post: Simplifying App Compat

    During the recent Deployment Deep Dive on Windows 7 Community Tour there were a few questions on how best to tackle an application compatibility problem.  There are a number of ways you can go about it from new apps, to shims to virtualization.  The other day Microsoft and ChangeBASE announced...
    on3 May 2010

  • Blog Post: Plan, Test, Assess, Deploy

    He’s back!  On April 29th, join Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich , as he will be leading a discussion around the process of planning, testing, assessing and rolling out Windows 7 in an enterprise organization.  Having just finished up the Windows 7 Deployment Deep Dive Community...
    on26 Apr 2010

  • Blog Post: “Where ya to ‘der b’y?” EnergizeIT East Coast Update

    People I chat with wonder what it is we do when we’re on the road with a series of activities that encompass a number of events like EnergizeIT. I’ve been peckin’ away at this post while were were on the road a week or so ago and finally made all the pieces fit and reordered in a chronological order...
    on7 Apr 2010

  • Blog Post: Desktop Virtualization Hour

    With the recent Windows 7 Deployment Deep Dive tour wrapping up tomorrow night in Saskatoon one of the most common question topics was desktop virtualization.  From XP Mode to MED-V, App-V to VDI there are plenty of choice to fit the needs of the particular situation.  What is the best migration...
    on17 Mar 2010

  • Blog Post: End of support for Windows 2000, XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM

    As we announced in 2008, support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010. Support for Windows 2000 will end on the same date. Support for Windows Vista Release to Manufacturing (RTM) will end on April 13, 2010. NOTE: There is no Service Pack 3 for the 64-bit version of Windows XP...
    on3 Mar 2010
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