Musings of an IT Pro Evangelist : IT Pro

Choose Your Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Deployment Strategy

txsnow — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:24:03 GMT

Like any IT Pro, you have what appears to be million tools and strategies to get your desktops deployed. A very well written guide was just posted to TechNet that gives in-depth guidance on how to get Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 deployed using just a few, targeted strategies for specific scenarios. This guide outlines the four main deployment methods as well as the IT Skill level required, the infrastructure that helps determine your choice, as well as strategy and tools guidance. This is an amazing guide that I feel every IT Pro needs to read.

I'm going to Disneyland!

txsnow — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:00:00 GMT

While I do feel that this weeks Texans win over the Packers on the "Frozen Tundra" of Lambau field is Superbowl like... it's not the reason I'm heading to So. Cal for a week. Apparently there is this thing called vacation that people take to get away from work. In the 12 or so years as an IT Pro, I never experienced much of that vacation thing. Well that's all about to change. For the next week I'm going to be hanging out with the family and Mickey Mouse so no new posts. Well, unless I find some really cool technology stuff here that I need to blog about. I'm making a commitment to NOT use my laptop for work evil and to only use it to copy the pictures from the camera to the computer. We'll see how that works out for me. I'll be back with new posts starting on the 16th (if not sooner).

Server Manager Command Line

txsnow — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:33:34 GMT

I have posted my first entry over on Edge about Server Manager Command Line. A great tool in Windows Server 2008 that allows for command line based installation of roles and features on a Windows Server 2008 Server. Give it a look and as always comments are encouraged.