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Confessions of a Microsoft Consultant
Daniel Oxley is an Infrastucture Consultant working for Microsoft Consulting Services in Madrid, Spain. He specialises, amongst other things, in large-scale deployments of Microsoft Windows using technologies such as BDD2007 and the Microsoft Deployment
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Confessions of a Microsoft Consultant
Ooops, that’s not right…
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I have been asked twice this week if this is possible and if so how to do it, so I guess either the information is not readily available on the Internet, or the two people who asked me just couldn’t be bothered to look it up...! I’m sure you’ve...
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Wallpapering your Windows 7 computer
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over 4 years ago
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As some of you may know, certain countries have personalisation packs for Windows 7 that are activated on during the installation of the operating system, depending on the regional settings you first set. So, if you tell Windows 7 setup that you...
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Anti-Virus Software, That's Free!
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over 4 years ago
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I am probably the last Microsoft blogger to actually get round to writing something about this… but hey, I have been busy! Microsoft recently released to the public their free anti-virus solution, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). I had been trialling...
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Best Practices for Windows 7 Migrations Using Microsoft Application Virtualization
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There is a webcast this month that should be of interest to anyone interested in using application virtualisation, particularly if you are migrating to Windows 7. The date of the webcast is Monday the 26th of October 2009 at 12pm, but be aware that...
Confessions of a Microsoft Consultant
Putting iexplore.exe on a diet
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over 4 years ago
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I have gotten very used, very quickly, to the excellent tabbed browsing feature that was introduced with Internet Explorer 7. This feature was tweaked a fair bit for Internet Explorer 8, but the most noticeable change is that now each tab opens...
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Benchmarking Windows 7
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A very common request that clients make when starting a Windows deployment project is that we must reliably and accurately demonstrate that Windows Vista or Windows 7 is worth upgrading to from Windows XP, especially if the purchase of new hardware is...
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