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Category Archives: Office 2010
Resources from my Modern Desktop Presentation
You might have just seen my UK TechDays 2011 presentation which will be available online after the show, however if you didn’t get time to make a note of the resources, here you go: •Springboard: http://bit.ly/W7SB •Download Windows 7 Eval: … Continue reading
Posted in Office 2010, Office 365, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7
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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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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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TechNet magazine tip of the day – Office 2010 64-bit or 32-bit?
Here are four things you should consider when you decide whether to deploy a 64-bit or 32-bit version of Office 2010. Technorati Tags: TechNet magazine,Office 2010 Continue reading
Sharing Presentations with Office Web Apps
I created this presentation for a briefing session that I did recently and I didn’t get to run through the whole thing. So I thought I’d share it and do so by showing off a new and cool feature of Office Web Apps: the ability to embed a slide… Continue reading
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The argument for Silverlight as part of your corporate optimized desktop
What do you deploy to your people as part of your corporate standard desktop? Windows 7 – yep gota have that! Office 2010? Yep you know you need to moving to it if you want your people to work as efficiently as possible. MDOP – we… Continue reading
The book that stuns everyone in the office
Today I went to grab a copy of the Windows 7 resource kit that I reserved from the learning center to read on holiday. It has since been used as a dumbell, a door stop and has as a booster … Continue reading
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Another not-very-revolutionary feature: Gmail does “undo send”
Gmail’s undo send feature is being talked up all over the web right now. Why. It’s revolutionary of course. WRONG. Outlook has done this for YEARS, all that’s happening is that a delay is introduced. To do this in Outlo… Continue reading
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One love for OneNote
I was just catching up on my feeds when I spotted this on lifehacker they’ve run a Hive Fiver poll to find out what tools people use to manage their life and personal projects and OneNote along with Evernote and plain text ala Notepad have come out o… Continue reading
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Tools to help you deploy Office 2010
The Office 2010 Engineering blog posted a great roundup of the tools that you can use to help deploy Office 2010 this week. It’s a powerful tool set and I honestly can’t see a blocker to deployment that it doesn’t help remove. Yo… Continue reading
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