Monthly Archives: February 2012

Why you need to know about “consumerisation” of IT

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Simon

One of the biggest challenges facing the CIO at the moment is the consumerisation of IT but I’m aware that may be a term that is meaningless to most in the IT department.  Perhaps it’s better explained by the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) … Continue reading →

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Talking about App Compat and Internet Explorer today with Quest

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Simon

Today I presented at a seminar with Quest around IE migrations and compatibility.  Many people asked for the deck, so here it is.   Continue reading →

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Error: Hyper-v launch aborted due to auto-launch being disabled in the registry

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Simon

Wow this one blindsided me this evening.  I’ve just replaced the tiny 500gb drive in my main demo laptop with a shiny new 1TB one (I have a lot of VMs you know) and got hit with this error.  Basically what I did to replace the drive was use… Continue reading →

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