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Category Archives: Optimized Desktop
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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Great MDT 2010 videos
I was just helping someone internally with some deployment stuff and I came across these excellent videos by Richard Smith on MDT and doing Lite touch deployments. We obviously have an update of the tools but the basics still apply MDT Update 1 i… Continue reading
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Optimized Desktop, Windows 7
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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
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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Confused about deploying Windows 7? Try this…
Lots of people are looking at how they should go about deploying Windows 7 in their organisation, a few I’ve seen first hand are struggling to understand how to migrate. One of the major steps in planning your deployment is probably to bui… Continue reading
Posted in MDOP, My TechNet Blog, Optimized Desktop, Springboard, Windows 7
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Office 2010 Compatibility
One of the hurdles that I’ve personally experienced when trying to move people to the latest version of Office to help them be more productive is that those little tools they rely on – that excel add-in that they bought that’s become a core part … Continue reading
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WAIK me up before you go go
This isn’t a post about pop icons of the 80s, 90s, 00s and today it’s just that I can’t resist a pun in a headline. It’s time to have a little better look at the WAIK and we’ll start with the zero to hero guide that is the step-by-step guide…. Continue reading
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Optimized Desktop, Virtual PC, VM, WAIK
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