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Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion. -
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Category Archives: My TechNet Blog
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
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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
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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Evangelism Bag–Size S
A couple of days ago I had to head into London for content creation of a different kind, being interviewed about cloud by PC Pro and IT Pro, so it was time to break out the small Evangelism bag because I didn’t feel I needed the weight and capabiliti… Continue reading
Posted in Life at Microsoft, My TechNet Blog
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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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Video: How to start planning your Windows 7 deployment using free tools
The first step in any Windows 7 deployment is to start by understanding what your current environment looks like and what you’ll need to do to get your machines to meet the minimum system requirements or even better the recommended requirements. … Continue reading
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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Evangelism Bag–Size L
So it seems pretty popular to share the contents of your gadget bag again. Mine however is more of an Evangelism bag than gadget bag so what does your average IT Pro evangelist carry with him on day to day adventures? To find out I’ve cre… Continue reading
Posted in Life at Microsoft, My TechNet Blog
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You BETT ya! (or why I went to an education fair to meet IT Pros)
I spent much of last week at the crazy busy BETT education fair at Olympia showing people Office 365 and meeting some very interesting techies working in schools, collages and universities all over the country. I had a lot of misconceptions abo… Continue reading
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Office 365, Windows 7
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Connecting Office 365 and FOPE
Office 365 Beta gives you automatic access to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to protect the mail flow into your Office 365 environment. We recently released a guidance document that includes some of the known issues and some of the scen… Continue reading
Posted in BPOS, My TechNet Blog, Office 365
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Windows 7 licensing and virtual machines clarified
Licensing is a complex subject and to be honest it’s not one that I talk about much because it’s a complex discipline in and of it’s own and there’s too much fun stuff to talk about in the client and cloud world. This document, Licensing … Continue reading
Posted in Hyper-V, Licensing, My TechNet Blog, Virtual PC, Windows 7
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