Category Archives: My TechNet Blog

How will my career evolve with the cloud

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Simon

When you read all the wonderful marketing hyperbole around the cost savings that cloud can help your CIO make, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you were one of those cost savings. With a little thought, however, you’ll see that this tech… Continue reading →

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TechDays Online – Online today!

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Simon

In todays Tech.Days online we’re covering Security Integration with the Cloud using Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS). Active Directory Federation Services might seem an obscure topic for a Tech.Days session of its own, but it will be a co… Continue reading →

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Introducing the cloud to Windows Management Gurus

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Simon

Last night I had the opportunity to present at the Windows Management User Group an event organised by our excellent System Center MVP Cliff Hobbs.  Cliff asked me to present on “Microsoft’s cloud strategy” something that’s tricky not beca… Continue reading →

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Deployment options for small and midsized businesses

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Simon

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 →

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Practical deployment webcast live

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Simon

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 →

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit eBook

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Simon

I’ve been sat on this for a while and since it’s some time since I mentioned MDT I thought it was worth a very short post to endorse the great work that Dave Coleman (@Davecoleman146) created.  Dave’s got some excellent insight into using MD… Continue reading →

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Connecting the Private and Public cloud

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Simon

I’ve just hopped down off stage from presenting about the above at Data Centre World and I wanted to share my deck so the people in the audience who didn’t fall asleep can get hold of it quickly.  I got loads of questions about Identity and le… Continue reading →

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Moving your website to SharePoint 2010–guest post by Applicable

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Simon

Applicable Limited, a Microsoft Partner in the UK has rebuilt its website at http://www.applicable.com using SharePoint 2010 with the help of an extended team drawn from its own service delivery group, and associate Microsoft Partners with specialist d… Continue reading →

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How to upgrade RemoteFX virtual machines from Beta or RC builds to released build

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Simon

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 →

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War on Cost: Private Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Simon

A few weeks ago @deepfat and I ventured to the underground lair that is Churchills war rooms and listened to the story ouselves direct from a partner, Inframon.  Well the videos are now online and I especially like this one about our private cloud… Continue reading →

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