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The Rough Guide to Windows 7
My book that helps you get the most out of Microsoft's latest operating system, setup your home network and much more besides.
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Category Archives: Windows 7
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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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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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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I’m now a MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Support Technician 7
Being a bit of a fan of exams (!) on Friday went to a lovely little training centre in Wokingham and sat a couple of hours worth of exams, 070-680 and 070-685. Thankfully I passed both and I can now report back on them, just like I did with the M… Continue reading
Posted in Certification, My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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How to make a wireless router
You’re trapped by snow, you tried to escape in the car but hit some ice and and skidded into the curb at less than 10 mph and bent your wheel axle. There’s limited mobile reception. There’s internet but only directly connected by cabl… Continue reading
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More Power = Less Power
Hi I’m Andrew Fryer and I have hacked into Simon May’s blog, to show you how more power uses less power. I was checking out the latest technical goodness on the Dell stand at TechEd and I noticed they had a couple of their laptops hooked up t… Continue reading
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Mark Russinovich Inside Windows Azure
I was just thumbing around the Sysinternals site (for some handy tools for a deployment I’m doing) and happened across Mark’s PDC presentation which he re-ran at TechEd Europe last week and which I happened to be at. It’s a fantastic way … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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Windows 7 Settings Pack for Security Compliance Manager
If you’re looking to make sure that your enterprise desktops are secure and all to the same level then you’ll want to check out the recently updated Security Compliance Manager tool and with Windows 7 in your environment you’ll be wanting the W… Continue reading
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Understanding Windows 7 Deployment Backwards
What was the last operating system you deployed?…I’ll bet it was Windows XP and I bet you needed a bunch of 3rd party tools and experienced tons of pain to get to the end point. With the right (free) tools it’s really easy to deploy W… Continue reading
Posted in MDT, My TechNet Blog, SystemCenter, WAIK, WDS, Windows 7
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For the folks at Ezeit today
Thought I’d post my slides following on from the demo fail at Ezeit and provide a link to the awesome video about Windows 7 and Office deployment with MDT. Continue reading
Posted in Events, MDOP, My TechNet Blog, W, Windows 7
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