Dec
06
Just a quick post but useful to some hopefully, we had an email from a customer saying that they could map a network drive directly from a windows 7 computer to a SharePoint document library but could not from an XP machine? So a bit of background first some people would like to use the …
Feb
25
I have been working with Windows 7 for a while and knew about this wonderful feature called Boot from VHD. In a nutshell this feature allows Windows 7 to boot directly into a VHD and run just like a dual-boot system. The Boot from VHD allows the virtual to also tap into built in hardware …
Dec
19
Introducing the user experience, the design philosophy, and some fundamentals of the Windows Phone application platform Technorati Tags: Windows 7, WP7
Dec
10
Earlier this week I made available on the blog my free EBook on MDT 2010 step by step guide which can be found here well I found a series of videos of TechNet Edge about deploying windows 7 and the different strategies you can use, but the series of videos focuses mainly on MDT 2010 …
Dec
05
Back in July I wrote a series of posts on MDT 2010 and made this available on Scribd this EBook has now had over 5000 reads on this site but apparently you need to register to read this so I thought I would make it easier for all by making it available to download from …
Nov
19
Today I am featuring a purely UK education guest post from Adrian Edgar on the new way of carrying out controlled assessments and the pain points and Adrian’s solution to the problem. As always I welcome comments not only from UK schools but also from overseas. So without further ado over to Adrian:- For some time …
Nov
15
I stumbled across a great video today which I thought I would share with you from the TechNet website by Nicholas Hamawi on the use of remote PowerShell in Windows 7. This is a great intro to the subject and covers the following topics:- Set trust relationships Establish a remote shell connection Create connection objects …
Oct
26
I wrote a post a while ago about service pack 1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 well today Microsoft have made available the release candidate which can be downloaded from here this is something I have been looking forward to not necessarily for Windows 7 but mainly for me Server 2008 especially for …
Oct
26
Last week I attended a meeting at the Microsoft’s UK headquarters in Reading one session was all about cool things available or coming soon presented by Ben Nunney, Ben is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, we saw the Kinect for the X-Box 360 which was very cool but the piece of hardware that grabbed my …
