A much more quiet week this, suffering from man flu. Mainly I’ve been in London working on project Awesome deploying Windows 8 apps at scale using Configuration Manager.
Highlights include:
Registry settings, group policy, certificates, provisioned appx packages, PowerShell, Dism, Configuration Manager, Windows Intune…lots of ways to and requiremens for Sideload on Windows 8, this post explains them. [...] Continue Reading…
Weird week. It started normal enough, some planning, some my wife and daughter returning home from a holiday. It ended with Andrew and I flinging bacon at the audience at out Windows Server 2012 talk at Spiceworld…
Other highlights:
Wife and daughter home, nice.
Planning what to do next (MSFT) year – if you want something from me now is the time to ask.
Talking to lots of people at Spiceworld amazed at what Windows Server can do. Lots of people still don’t know, I might be getting a bit bored talking about the same awesome features after almost year…many people are not. Must. [...] Continue Reading…
Get the UK TechDays 2013 Ondemand content for the sessions you missed, want to see again or want to recommend to friends. [...] Continue Reading…
How you can change the hostname of a Hyper-V VM from the host using PowerShell V3 and by talking to the VMNetAdapter, the virtual switch and DNS. [...] Continue Reading…
This post explains how to blog. Great blog posts have a few things in common, notably they are readable, interesting to read and discoverable. [...] Continue Reading…
Planning time has started at Microsoft. During the last couple of weeks people started to develop plans at all levels and those plans start to flow up, down and across the company. It’s an interesting process to behold, something that only happens in an organisation that looks at outcomes and considers actions. We all decide what we want to do to achieve the goal.
This weeks highlights:
Planning, learning, thinking.
Next week Andrew and I are presenting a session at Spiceworld (!), the community feedback on the session has been encouraging. We best plan it.
Getting back involved with an epic, secret project [...] Continue Reading…
The keynote speakers list for TechEd Europe has just been announced and the line up is terrific as always! Brad Anderson, Mark Russinovich, Jeffrey Snover and Mark Minasi to name just a few. Of course you’ll want to be there and what better way to get there than to be a part of the UK TechNet team – of course if you make the grade we’ll cover your costs too.
If you do want to get along for free you’ll need to enter into the TechEd challenge to be in with a chance of winning. You can find out more [...] Continue Reading…
This past week has been mainly about being on holiday and spending time with the family, something I really needed to do after the TechDays Online week. That little week required five 12 to 14 hour days pull off and it reminded me somewhat of being “on call” back in the day. The other highlights of the week:
Lots of time with Lucy, mainly in her helmet, sometimes without.
Lots of time in Ikea.
Some thinking time – BYOD, Bring Your Own Device / PYOD, Purchase Your Own Device…two different things. Some thoughts on this courtesy of a paper by one of [...] Continue Reading…
Well Matt was right, it doesn’t take long to slip. This Week Note is being posted part way through the week because the end of last week was a mad dash over the line with UK TechDays Online 2013 – but a good time was had by all. Anyway these are the highlights and thoughts of the week. Most insightful thought, Matt Ballantine talked about consumerisation and used an analogy to a car…my thought, why don’t IT do annual check ups on your PC to keep it tuned. Perhaps they should. Producing and presenting a live event like [...] Continue Reading…