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The Rough Guide to Windows 7
My book that helps you get the most out of Microsoft's latest operating system, setup your home network and much more besides.
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Category Archives: Client
Why you need to get off Windows XP and move to Windows 7
Windows XP is cutting edge empowering a new wave of personal computing. The year is 2001 and Donnie Darko, The Fast and the Furious, A beautiful mind and Black hawk down are topping the movie charts…a short time later these … Continue reading
How to turn your SharePoint site into a native app with 5 lines of code
The web has changed and things have moved on, not really a shock, but the evolution of the latest web browsers is changing things. In particular Internet Explorer 9 allows you to take any site you see on the web and turn it into a native applicat… Continue reading
Posted in IE9, My TechNet Blog, SharePoint
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Optimized Desktop unplugged Slides
Just a quick one to provide people access to the slides from todays OD unplugged session in London. I can’t share my demo just now but I will record it…here are the slides for OD unplugged. But also embedded in the post here courtesy of Windows Live and don’t forget to checkout Springboard and the Windows 7 Evaluation I mentioned.
And also here’s the productivity video from my session.
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Office 2010, Optimized Desktop, Windows 7
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Deployment options for small and midsized businesses
If you find Windows 7 deployment options to be confusing you might find this handy new – stick it to your wall and refer to it daily – tech sheet to be rather helpful. The Windows 7 Deployment Options for Small and Midsized Businesses print… Continue reading
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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Practical deployment webcast live
A few days ago as part of our Tech Days online series I did a webcast on how to deploy Windows 7 using free tools like WDS, MDT and WAIK and that practical deployment webcast has now been made available online. We’re running these three weeks o… Continue reading
Posted in MDT, My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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How to upgrade RemoteFX virtual machines from Beta or RC builds to released build
Now that SP1 is pretty much out there for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 it’s far off time to start thinking about upgrading things in your Hyper-V environment. I’ve been running the RC version of SP1 on my Hyper-V laptop for a while to get th… Continue reading
Posted in Hyper-V, My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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Planning Office 2010 deployment
Last week I posted about how to use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit to plan your deployments of Windows 7 and Office. In the same vein I’ve noticed an article on the Knowledge Base that brings together tons of resources to h… Continue reading
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Office 2010
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Estonia now using the Euro (or how to set currency in Windows)
On January 1st 2011 Estonia joined the single EU currency and is now getting to grips with using the Euro on a daily basis. Funny thing is with money that it affects all sorts of things, not least the layout of all those keyboards! Imagine … Continue reading
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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Using your PC as a Wireless AP and how to modify IP configuration
Over the holidays I got into a sticky situation where I needed to use my Laptop as an access point to share a network connection. But it doesn’t give you much of a chance to change IP settings so if you have some other device that uses an overlapping… Continue reading
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Application not found
A very nice chap just wrote to Rachel asking for help with a problem* I think a few other people must have experienced so often so I thought I’d share how to fix it. I just hope I’ve got it right from the problem description. When click… Continue reading
Posted in Internet Explorer, My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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