We have less than three weeks till we kick off our next European tour! Be aware, seating is limited, so if you have not registered, you will want to do so soon before all the remaining spots are taken. What can you expect at our five-hour free  ...

A few years ago we developed a tool called Windows Steady State to enable IT admins in shared computing environments to control configure and revert the configuration computer of computers used in schools, libraries, internet cafes, kiosks as well as...

Amsterdam - 25 Oct | Stockholm – 27 Oct | Helsinki – 29 Oct | Reading – 1 Nov | Rome – 3 Nov | Vienna – 4 Nov The Microsoft Get On the Bus Tour is taking a winter hiatus to bring you a new tour – the Springboard Series Tour: Microsoft Windows, Office...

We are delighted to announce the world wide release of the Springboard Windows 7 Deployment Learning Portal on TechNet.  The Springboard Deployment Learning Portal is an online assessment and learning tool, designed to help IT Pros identify their...

By now the announcements have gone out for the Beta , been blogged about and seen in other social networking channels, so I thought I would do something a bit more in depth on this for the Springboard Blog. A little (recent) history… In Fall of 2009 there...

Over the past few months, many of you have shared with me your need to continue to be able to offer support for Internet Explorer 6 specific application while rolling out Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 into your organization. Suggestions for walkthroughs...

This is the third and final blog in the series . In the last blog, The Pros and Cons , I covered the main benefits and underlying drawbacks of file-based and sector-based core images. I intentionally stuck to core image files (the .WIM, .V2I, .GHO, .TIB...

Welcome to blog number two in the series where we’ll look at file-based images versus sector-based images. We’ve already done the tools primer and defined the terms again in the last blog post . Now we actually get some real work done by comparing the...

Last Feb Brandon posted a piece on Language Pack availability for Windows 7 here . I have had a lot of questions from IT pros in the past few weeks that are deploying Windows on where to find them so we thought we’d resurface this important topic and...

Have you downloaded the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP Beta yet ? The Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS...

For those of you who use the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool , we want to let you know that the Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 blockers will expire on August 24 th 2010. After the expiration date, Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server...

Jeremy Chapman who has contributed many pieces to this blog starts a multipart series on the benefits of using package based imaging tools. Welcome to blog number one in the series of imaging and image composition. Last week, Stephen kicked off the series...

The new Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is now available for download! MAP 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated...

This weeks post is from Carl Luberti, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer with the Internet Explorer team. To start, I wanted to address that Internet Explorer 8 has over 1300 Group Policy entries that can be configured, which is great for keeping your...

Over the past few months, we have talked quite a bit about the MDT 2010 Beta ( Your Adding Office 2010 to MDT 2010 Environment Questions Answered! , Your Building a LiteTouch Bootable USB Image Questions Answered! , and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010...

I have had a lot of requests to post my presentation from the Bus Tour. Here you go!   Get On The Bus - XP to Windows 7

Steve Holcomb powered the U.S. to its first bobsledding gold medal in 62 years at the Vancouver Games. The Olympian is a PC through and through. He trains using an Xbox and is a Microsoft Certified Professional, now setting his sights on getting his Windows...

The Windows engineering team has just published the latest version of the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.6 to support customers who are looking at moving some or all of their Windows 7 PCs to 64-bit. After you collect your users’ software inventory...

The Get On The Bus tour made it’s 10th and final stop in Atlanta.  We had people lining up for the sessions as early as 2:30 am, nearly 10 hours before registration opened!  We then drove 9 hours to New Orleans to the convention center where...

See what happened when the Get On The Bus Tour met the IT Grand Prix in Washington DC this past weekend.

The bus tour is almost over with only one more city to go. The people in Charlotte were excited we made their city one of our stops and show them all the cool new tools and software. See what they had to say about Windows 7, MDOP and Office 2010.

We had a huge crowd of folks that showed up to learn about Windows 7, Office 2010 and MDOP today. We had a great time with them sharing the cool new products and tools and treated ourselves to some amazing barbecue . Check it out!

The Get On The Bus tour reached historic Richmond, VA today. We had a great audience filled with lots of excitement and lots of questions around Windows, Office and MDOP. Take a peek and check out the event!

The Bus Tour gets to our nations capitol in Washington DC for two days of presentations on Windows 7 , Office 2010 and MDOP . The crowd was great and the city is amazing. Check it out! For more on the Get On The Bus tour or to sign up for sessions in...

Yesterday, Microsoft’s Get On The Bus tour came to Philadelphia, PA. We got to see the sites, try some Cheesesteak sandwiches and meet with some amazing IT pros, We even got to meet the Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter. It was a great stop with many...