Beta 2 of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 is now available for download! New features and enhancements make large-scale desktop and server deployments smoother than ever! For System Center Configuration Manager customers, MDT 2012 Beta 2 provides an improved, extensible wizard and designer...

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5 Beta Beta review program now open! Join the MAP Toolkit 6.5 beta program   Simplify your cloud migration planning with MAP 6.5 Beta The journey to the cloud is now smoother than ever with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 Beta....

If you’ve been putting off doing any of the above because you don’t have access to the software, then now is time to get it done!!!!  The links below will give you access to evaluation software, in some cases for up to 180 days!!! Download Links for Evaluation Software -  Build Your Test Labs...

Overview Microsoft System Center 2012 cloud and datacenter solutions provide a common management toolset for your private and public cloud applications and services to help you deliver IT as a Service to your business. System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides the monitoring component of this solution...

Its IT Time and in today’s episode, Blain Barton and John Baker welcome Rhonda Layfield, Microsoft MVP for Setup and Deployment. Tune in as Rhonda gives us an in-depth demo on the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta 1, from installation and setup of the MDTs deployment workbench, the architecture...

  Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 1 rides the next wave of System Center releases with support for System Center Configuration Manager 2012.  For Lite Touch installations, MDT 2012 improves the overall client-side user experience, while also providing behind-the-scenes enhancements...

What’s New? Planning your journey to the cloud just got a bit easier. The next release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0 Beta—includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and private cloud platforms. With MAP 6.0 Beta...

If you’re managing an IT organization, you’ll know the consumerization of IT is creeping into your environment and probably causing a major management challenge.  If this is the case then I have the tool for you!!!! System Center Configuration Manager 2012 helps IT empower people to use the devices...

One of the really cool applications that comes with the Windows Live Essentials beta is Windows Live Sync .  If you have multiple systems and are constantly copying files from one to the other and would prefer to access to the SAME file from all of your systems/devices, then Windows Live Sync is...