Hosted by CITPG as the biggest IT Pro community event every year in the Charlotte area, this year promises to be bigger and better than ever. We will have presentations from some of the nation’s top technology professionals (MVP’s and Microsoft Evangelists) on a variety of topics ranging...

I hope you enjoyed the latest series on Migration and Deployment as much as we did! If by chance you missed any of the installments here is a complete list with links Series Introduction Introduction to the Migration and Deployment Series by Kevin Remde Deploying and Migrating to Windows...

Matthew Hester brings us the 19th installment of our series this month with a look at Windows 8 Applocker. He writes, "One of the Technologies we introduced with Windows 7 was AppLocker. AppLocker presented a great new way to control what applications could run on your desktop environments. Now if...

Chris Avis brings us the next installment of our series with a look at Windows 8 Apps, the end-user experience, and thoughts for administrators for locking down the upgrades and updates. He writes "Windows 8 gives us the awesome Windows Store where we can find and install Windows 8 applications that...

With Windows 8 comes the new modern UI which greatly enhances our abilities to provide a more immersive experience to the end user when it comes to Apps. In this article I will outline the steps for enabling administrators to push internal apps to client workstations via the process known as “sideloading...

Hey folks, I'm back from play time with Mickey and as it turns out my team started a new blog series while I was gone. :) February's series is about Migration and Deployment. From Windows 8 to System Center App Controller, we will be providing daily articles on these topics. The schedule(notice we spared...

Microsoft® Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell® (Release Candidate) helps scripters find Windows PowerShell scripts, snippets, modules, and how-to guidance in online repositories such as the TechNet Script Center Repository, PoshCode, local or network file systems and Bing Search Repository...

Hey folks, just a simple post on a common topic that I receive at my Pro Camps. In this blog post we will be connecting to a non-domain joined Windows 2012 Server with the Remote Server Administration Tool (RSAT). In order to do this requires a Powershell command to be run on the Windows 8 client machine...

In the last article we installed Windows Server 2012 in Core Mode but we still need to configure the server. Now we are going to walk through various options and configuration methods. You will want to take note of two commands right away, since the only window you will see in Core mode by default is...

My wife has been using her new Surface pretty much non-stop since we bought it on opening day. She has only had one complaint. “Why is there no Facebook App? Sure there is the People app but I like Facebook.” So I told her no problem, lets make a Facebook “app”. We first brought...

PowerShell Saturday #003 will bring together devops, IT professionals, DBAs, and developers from Atlanta and the surrounding areas for a full day of intense learning and fun on October 27, 2012. With fifteen sessions covering a milieu of topics like Windows 8, Exchange, SQL Server, and of course PowerShell...

Microsoft has announced the RTM for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8! For more details click here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/08/01/windows-server-2012-released-to-manufacturing.aspx