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  • Blog Post: Technology to Support Consumerisation: IPSec

    A technology that’s been around for quite some time is IPSec, it helps to ensure security of communications between two network devices.  With IPSec in place two devices need to establish a peer-to-peer trust before communication can take place, it’s kind of like having a secret handshake. If your...
    on8 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Optimized Desktop unplugged Slides

    Just a quick one to provide people access to the slides from todays OD unplugged session in London.  I can’t share my demo just now but I will record it…here are the slides for OD unplugged .  But also embedded in the post here courtesy of Windows Live and don’t forget to checkout Springboard...
    on30 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: Deployment options for small and midsized businesses

    If you find Windows 7 deployment options to be confusing you might find this handy new – stick it to your wall and refer to it daily – tech sheet to be rather helpful.  The Windows 7 Deployment Options for Small and Midsized Businesses printable overview is one of those things you can print and...
    on14 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: Practical deployment webcast live

    A few days ago as part of our Tech Days online series I did a webcast on how to deploy Windows 7 using free tools like WDS, MDT and WAIK and that practical deployment webcast has now been made available online.  We’re running these three weeks out of every four (we need a week to prep) and you can...
    on11 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: How to upgrade RemoteFX virtual machines from Beta or RC builds to released build

    Now that SP1 is pretty much out there for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 it’s far off time to start thinking about upgrading things in your Hyper-V environment.  I’ve been running the RC version of SP1 on my Hyper-V laptop for a while to get the benefits of Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX, but what about...
    on7 Feb 2011

  • Blog Post: Estonia now using the Euro (or how to set currency in Windows)

    On January 1st 2011 Estonia joined the single EU currency and is now getting to grips with using the Euro on a daily basis.  Funny thing is with money that it affects all sorts of things, not least the layout of all those keyboards!  Imagine everyone in Estonia now needs a new keyboard with...
    on25 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Using your PC as a Wireless AP and how to modify IP configuration

    Over the holidays I got into a sticky situation where I needed to use my Laptop as an access point to share a network connection . But it doesn’t give you much of a chance to change IP settings so if you have some other device that uses an overlapping IP range you might need to change some settings,...
    on24 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Application not found

    A very nice chap just wrote to Rachel asking for help with a problem* I think a few other people must have experienced so often so I thought I’d share how to fix it.  I just hope I’ve got it right from the problem description.  When clicking a link in an application, like your email program...
    on21 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Video: How to start planning your Windows 7 deployment using free tools

    The first step in any Windows 7 deployment is to start by understanding what your current environment looks like and what you’ll need to do to get your machines to meet the minimum system requirements or even better the recommended requirements.  The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP...
    on21 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: You BETT ya! (or why I went to an education fair to meet IT Pros)

    I spent much of last week at the crazy busy BETT education fair at Olympia showing people Office 365 and meeting some very interesting techies working in schools, collages and universities all over the country.  I had a lot of misconceptions about the type of IT Professionals working in education...
    on17 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Windows 7 licensing and virtual machines clarified

    Licensing is a complex subject and to be honest it’s not one that I talk about much because it’s a complex discipline in and of it’s own and there’s too much fun stuff to talk about in the client and cloud world.  This document, Licensing Windows 7 for Use with Virtual Machine Technologies tells...
    on13 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: I’m now a MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Support Technician 7

    Being a bit of a fan of exams (!) on Friday went to a lovely little training centre in Wokingham and sat a couple of hours worth of exams, 070-680 and 070-685 .  Thankfully I passed both and I can now report back on them, just like I did with the MTA exams.  The first thing to say is that these...
    on10 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: How to make a wireless router

    You’re trapped by snow, you tried to escape in the car but hit some ice and and skidded into the curb at less than 10 mph and bent your wheel axle.  There’s limited mobile reception.  There’s internet but only directly connected by cable to one PC.  You’re a geek who needs to work and...
    on20 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: More Power = Less Power

    Hi I’m Andrew Fryer and I have hacked into Simon May’s blog, to show you how more power uses less power.  I was checking out the latest technical goodness on the Dell stand at TechEd and I noticed they had a couple of their laptops hooked up to power meters one of which was a trusty old Dell 630...
    on13 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: Mark Russinovich Inside Windows Azure

    I was just thumbing around the Sysinternals site (for some handy tools for a deployment I’m doing) and happened across Mark’s PDC presentation which he re-ran at TechEd Europe last week and which I happened to be at.  It’s a fantastic way for the IT Professional to understand some of the (very)...
    on17 Nov 2010

  • Blog Post: Windows 7 Settings Pack for Security Compliance Manager

    If you’re looking to make sure that your enterprise desktops are secure and all to the same level then you’ll want to check out the recently updated Security Compliance Manager tool and with Windows 7 in your environment you’ll be wanting the Windows 7 settings pack.  Full details of the pack are...
    on16 Nov 2010

  • Blog Post: Understanding Windows 7 Deployment Backwards

    What was the last operating system you deployed?…I’ll bet it was Windows XP and I bet you needed a bunch of 3rd party tools and experienced tons of pain to get to the end point.   With the right (free) tools it’s really easy to deploy Windows 7 though and you can self select just how much control...
    on10 Nov 2010

  • Blog Post: For the folks at Ezeit today

    Thought I’d post my slides following on from the demo fail at Ezeit and provide a link to the awesome video about Windows 7 and Office deployment with MDT .
    on27 Oct 2010

  • Blog Post: IPExpo wrap up

    Things have been quiet here for a couple of days whilst we were at IPExpo and interesting conference with a tangential subject line up but one that creates great conversations.  I know the talk was great ‘cos I’m drinking lemon tea to help ease my throat…where are my herbal sweets?  We had...
    on22 Oct 2010

  • Blog Post: Great MDT 2010 videos

    I was just helping someone internally with some deployment stuff and I came across these excellent videos by Richard Smith on MDT and doing Lite touch deployments.  We obviously have an update of the tools but the basics still apply MDT Update 1 is available here and if you want to know more about...
    on13 Oct 2010

  • Blog Post: Desktop Security Made Easy and Free

    There are basically three basic aspects to securing your Windows 7 desktop, all are possible for free to home users and small businesses and with market leading technologies.  In this post I’ll discuss how to work with these basic component and how some of those same technologies can be scaled for...
    on11 Oct 2010

  • Blog Post: Free learning

    XP mode is one of the tools in your armoury for deploying Windows 7 if you want to learn more about it check out this: Installing, Configuring, and Managing Windows XP Mode .  It’s official courseware for Implementing and Managing Microsoft Desktop Virtualization and it’s a great introduction to...
    on21 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: Ed Bott’s on a mission to rid us of XP

    I think Ed Bott’s a superb Windows advocate, be it his excellent books or his ZDnet articles or his blog.  Yesterday he had a superb object lesson on why it’s time to ditch XP and move to Windows 7.  The answer, it’s more secure.  See for yourself at Ed’s blog .
    on15 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: DNSSEC explained beautifully by Mark Minasi

    DNS security and the way to spoof and poison DNS is a pretty complicated area.  Luckily we have DNSSEC which can help to resolve the issues quite simply.  It’s an area that I needed to understand a bit more about and as I happened to be doing so I found this video with Mark Minasi.  Oh...
    on10 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: The argument for Silverlight as part of your corporate optimized desktop

    What do you deploy to your people as part of your corporate standard desktop?  Windows 7 – yep gota have that! Office 2010?  Yep you know you need to moving to it if you want your people to work as efficiently as possible.  MDOP – well obviously you’re going to be using parts of MDOP to...
    on7 Sep 2010
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