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Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion. -
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Category Archives: My TechNet Blog
Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2
One of the questions I get asked constantly is about the safety of placing your data into particular environments, so I was quite pleased when I noticed that we’d released the Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 which helps you to … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, My TechNet Blog
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The future of IT for MSPs
Today I presentated to a group of about a thousand managed service providers about Microsoft’s cloud and what it means for the future of IT. I though I’d throw up this post to provide some extra resources like the deck embedded below that I u… Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, consumerisation, My TechNet Blog, skills
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A tour of Microsoft’s Datacentres
A few weeks ago now we made the following video tour of our Datacentres available for all to see on the GFS website and also on YouTube. At the time I forgot to post it but having just happened across it I thought it worth sharing. I consta… Continue reading
Posted in Azure, Cloud, My TechNet Blog
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Resources for IT Apprentices
Today I went to talk to a group of IT Apprentices at QA’s centre in Birmingham, thanks for a good day guys and especially to Lorette who organised the day. If you aren’t sure what apprentices are then you should find out more about IT Apprent… Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, My TechNet Blog, Office 365
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3 new heroes in next generation IT Departments
I’ve already highlighted how IT departments are going to change over the next few years a few times and what some people in those departments are going to be doing as their roles inevitably change but there are going to be some new roles that app… Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, My TechNet Blog
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How the public cloud affects your IT Department
No one can fail to see how much impact the ideas of cloud are having on our organisations and as IT Professionals the most direct impact we feel is on us, on those we work with, on our IT Department. It doesn’t matter whether your “IT”, “… Continue reading
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How to turn your SharePoint site into a native app with 5 lines of code
The web has changed and things have moved on, not really a shock, but the evolution of the latest web browsers is changing things. In particular Internet Explorer 9 allows you to take any site you see on the web and turn it into a native applicat… Continue reading
Posted in IE9, My TechNet Blog, SharePoint
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IT Professionals and the cloud infographic
We’ve just released the results of a study of 1,979 IT Professionals and their opinion about the cloud and I decided to take the numbers and turn them into an infographic, you can get the full report and more here but the number of organisations usin… Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, My TechNet Blog
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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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Managing from the cloud with Windows Intune
Securing and managing the devices that users take for granted when accessing the cloud is top of mind for IT Professionals everywhere and there are lots of solutions to make things more secure. What about desktops PCs? Everyone in the desktop world is … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, itpro.co.uk, My TechNet Blog, Windows Intune
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