Category: Windows 7
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Everything you Wanted to Know and Ask about Windows Deployment!
For those of you who are interested in deploying Windows (and with 707 days left until #EndOfDaysXP who isn’t?) there are a couple of incredible webinars coming up that you definitely should not miss! Stephen Rose will be holding a couple of discussions with MDT Product Manager Michael Niehaus (if you have ever heard me…
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Why I Will Not Help You With Your Computer, or ‘Are you kidding me?’
A friend of a friend asked me for help with her computer the other day. I was still on vacation, but my understanding was that she had a reasonably simply question. I took the call. Let me preface this by saying that I really respect her honesty. She was upfront with me, and I appreciated…
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Missing the Obvious: A great reason to ask for expert opinions.
I received the following e-mail from a colleague, and was glad to answer her questions. However the most important question of all is her last one… “Have I missed any other issues that I should be looking at before beginning this migration?’” I am so glad she asked that, because none of us are experts…
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On airline staff and Windows 7…
Yesterday morning as I walked up to the Maple Leaf Lounge at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport (YYZ) I was greeted by Tony Falcone, one of the Air Canada agents that I meet from time to time. As he looked up my Aeroplan number I fumbled with my Samsung Focus phone (barely avoiding dropping it), and…
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Office 365–Complex or Options?
Last week Microsoft officially launched its cloud-based infrastructure offering, Office 365. As a virtual insider I have been using this solution for the past six months for my IT consulting firm, and frankly had forgotten that it was a beta offering. That is because while the packaging may be new, all of the applications –…
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It was Twenty Years Ago Today!
Ok, well it wasn’t, but I had the Beatles running through my head. It is amazing what can remind you of the oddest things from the past… In June, 1988 I was finishing Grade 10 and my last computer course on the Apple //e was behind me. I had made the decision to sell my…
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Windows MultiPoint Server 2011: The future of the classroom and so much more!
One of the things I love about coming to events like TechEd is that I am able to see and learn about new products, as well as meet new friends and reconnect with old ones. On the second day of TechEd 2011 I had the opportunity to do all three simultaneously! I interviewed Dean Paron…
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The Wonder that is TechEd
The quiet of the Exhibitor Hall is disturbed by the sounds of preparation. To my left there is a crew frantically working to fix something with a carpet. There is some hammering, more yammering, and the sounds of carpet tape being unfurled. To my right there are two security agents talking, but they are too…
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Get on the Bus!
For the third year in a row the Springboard Bus Tour will hit the road leading up to TechEd. If you have never met the bus you are missing out, because it delivers expert advice, great learning, and huge career benefits to IT Pros. It delivers answers to questions you may have been having about…
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Creating a Multi-OS Deployment Point with MDT!
Hey folks, I know for months you’ve been on me because the screen shots in my Multi-OS Deployment Share post were lost. Today I am glad to say that I have created a video of it for the DPE team, and am glad to share it with you here! Remember, this video creates the deployment…
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The Student Has Become The Master!
Monday evening I attended the monthly user group meeting of the Wellington Waterloo IT Pro User Group (http://www.wwitpro.com/) in Kitchener, Ontario. The topic for the evening was called Windows 7 Deployment as presented by Sean Kearney (yes, THE Sean Kearney, a.k.a. The Energized Tech, a.k.a. (the former) Friday Funny Guy!) from SWMI Consulting Group and…
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Creating a Bootable USB Key
It seems that some of my articles got chopped during the move to WordPress. Doh! Here are the simple instructions to create a bootable USB key: Open a Command Prompt session with Administrator privileges. Run the Disk Partition utility (diskpart.exe) Type List Disk to see a list of drives on your computer. Determine which is…
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Troubleshooting MDT Scripts
I have a Windows 7 Deployment Point DVD that I created using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 for a client, and it has been a godsend during the past ten days. Because the client wants to make copies to send to their remote locations around the country, I spent a couple of hours scripting as…
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