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Vista: less support required than XP

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:02 PM by James Senior
Found an interesting quote from IT Pro today : For customers who do switch to Vista, there are fewer issues than with XP; fewer users are calling Microsoft or the OEMs for Vista support compared to the first 90 days of XP and the call volume is decreasing Read More...
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Vista makes deployment and management easier

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:20 PM by James Senior
Today sees the launch of Windows Server 2008 and the campaign we're pushing out into market is one of turning IT guys and girls into heroes within their companies.  Don't get it? Imagine turning the perception of your IT department as a cost centre Read More...
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Demos for Partner use

Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 8:12 AM by James Senior
Chris has got info on new product demos featuring System Center and Business Intelligence: The Microsoft Partner Demo Showcase download has been extended to include Deep Dive/Product virtual environments which are available to ALL Microsoft partners, Read More...
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Why Management and Security is important for partners and why Microsoft is about to change the game

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:58 PM by James Senior
I've been doing a little light reading on my flight to Edinburgh this afternoon.  I'm in Scotland for meetings with Partners over the next couple of days to talk about Core IO and these two whitepapers are very pertinent to those discussions. The Read More...
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Partner Training for System Center Mobile Device Manager

Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 9:36 AM by James Senior
As one might expect, Mr Mobile - aka Jason Langridge has details on upcoming training for System Center Mobile Device Manager.  Worth checking out if you need to easily manage all your mobile devices from one place. Windows Mobile Security and Device Read More...
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Forefront Edge and System Center VPC for download

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:32 PM by James Senior
Matt passed this link on to me today and thought it might be useful to help understand and demonstrate the capabilities in our Edge security offering.  In particular Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) which provides secure access to company applications Read More...
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IT Management from the Desktop to the Datacenter

Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:07 PM by James Senior
One of things we are currently talking to our customers and partners about is the concept of having end-to-end management of IT products and solutions from desktop all the way to the datacenter servers and all the infrastructure in between. New products Read More...
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Learn how to efficiently deploy Vista and Office 2007 in your business

Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 11:45 AM by James Senior
One of the things that I spend much of time talking to partners about is how to use the excellent tools and resources available to them so that they can turn their deployment of Vista and Office 2007 into a efficient, cost effective operation. IT can Read More...
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What is MDOP and what's the big deal?

Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:38 AM by James Senior
We've sold 1,000,000 licenses for MDOP since October 2006 - so it must be pretty important right? So what is it? Well, it stands for Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack (you'll need to use Optimization if you want to Live it) and is a set of desktop management Read More...
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How to save $1,000,000 on your IT deployment and support with application virtualisation

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:58 PM by James Senior
Well, it depends a lot on your individual circumstances as a organisation but the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle have managed to do save $1,000,000. Their IT is quite big with 500 applications across 4,500 desktops and 150 thin desktops and they have Read More...
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Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 Beta

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:51 AM by James Senior
The new public beta for Windows Vista Hardware Assessment has been released and you can go sign up and download the beta from the Microsoft Connect website . What is Windows Vista Hardware Assessment? I've covered this before ( see here for all the detail Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 Podcast

Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:09 PM by James Senior
Powershell is an object orientated scripting language which is extensible and is the foundation admin tool for Exchange Server 2007 and System Center Operations Manager 2007. One of our MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) talks about Windows Server 2008 Read More...
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XP SP3 later this year?

Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:29 AM by James Senior
Just speculation, but upon closer inspection of the announcement of the agreement between Microsoft and Juniper networks , this little excerpt slipped out: "Microsoft is announcing that Windows Vista supports this protocol today and Windows Server ® 2008 Read More...
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Vista: Microsoft IT share experiences and best practices

Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 8:36 AM by James Senior
Being an earlier adopter can sometimes be painful because you have to do a lot of the learning and path finding on your own. Microsoft IT are the best example of early adopters and it's good to see they are sharing their experiences with the rest of us Read More...
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The Vista Deployment Den

Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:43 PM by James Senior
Something I've been crafting for the last couple of weeks is a one stop shop for all your deployment resources and information. Well here it is, the Vista Deployment Den ! Most recent additions include: Vista Driver Compatibility Assess your Hardware Read More...
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