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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
Download Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC
Hot off the TechNet press, so to speak, you can now download the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate. Here’s the blurb: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest suppo… Continue reading
Halo and Gears of War Desktop Themes
There are some nice new themes available for Windows 7 online from Microsoft right now. I’m currently sporting the Halo:Reach theme but there’s new hotness for Gears of War 3 and some other themes that passed me by like Lightening. … Continue reading
IPExpo wrap up
Things have been quiet here for a couple of days whilst we were at IPExpo and interesting conference with a tangential subject line up but one that creates great conversations. I know the talk was great ‘cos I’m drinking lemon tea to help eas… Continue reading
Posted in Events, My TechNet Blog, Windows 7, Windows Intune, Windows Phone 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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Desktop Security Made Easy and Free
There are basically three basic aspects to securing your Windows 7 desktop, all are possible for free to home users and small businesses and with market leading technologies. In this post I’ll discuss how to work with these basic component and … Continue reading
Posted in MSE, My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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Free learning
XP mode is one of the tools in your armoury for deploying Windows 7 if you want to learn more about it check out this: Installing, Configuring, and Managing Windows XP Mode. It’s official courseware for Implementing and Managing Microsoft Deskt… Continue reading
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Ed Bott’s on a mission to rid us of XP
I think Ed Bott’s a superb Windows advocate, be it his excellent books or his ZDnet articles or his blog. Yesterday he had a superb object lesson on why it’s time to ditch XP and move to Windows 7. The answer, it’s more secure. … Continue reading
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DNSSEC explained beautifully by Mark Minasi
DNS security and the way to spoof and poison DNS is a pretty complicated area. Luckily we have DNSSEC which can help to resolve the issues quite simply. It’s an area that I needed to understand a bit more about and as I happened to be doi… Continue reading
Posted in DNS, My TechNet Blog, Server 2008 R2, 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
Excellent paper on IE6 compatibility with Windows 7
I was just browsing around our internal sites and found this excellent white paper on Solutions for Virtualising Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), what amazed me was that it was externally available.
If you’ve got some applications that rely on IE6 (lik… Continue reading
Posted in My TechNet Blog, Windows 7
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