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The Rough Guide to Windows 7
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Category Archives: Windows 7
Technology to Support Consumerisation: IPSec
A technology that’s been around for quite some time is IPSec, it helps to ensure security of communications between two network devices. With IPSec in place two devices need to establish a peer-to-peer trust before communication can take place,… Continue reading
Posted in Consumerisation, Server 2008 R2, Windows 7
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Still on XP? Why you should be browsing with IE8
There are plenty of people out there still using Windows XP, however many parts of the operating system have needed to be updated in order to keep things going. There have been three service packs released for Windows XP since it’s inception and…. Continue reading
Posted in Client, IE9, Internet Explorer 9, Windows 7
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Resources from my #uktechdays “Better Together” session
Hopefully for lots of you reading this you’ll be looking for some resources off the back of the turn I’ve just done about DirectAccess and BranchCache. Bellow are some places with some really useful information. Here’s a video by Kevin … Continue reading
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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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
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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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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