Client Computing: Thin or Clean…
Thin is in again – but with a twist… You don’t have to be thin, just clean …. For a bit over 3 years now, I’ve been working on implementing application virtualization and streaming technology within...
View ArticleA New Vision for Desktop Management – Part 1
By Jorge Pereira and Sean Kennedy, Kennedy Consulting Originally published as a white paper for Kennedy Consulting on December 2006 Desktop management has remained largely unchanged over the past few...
View ArticleA New Vision for Desktop Management – Part 2
By Jorge Pereira and Rob West Originally published as a white paper for Kennedy Consulting on January 2007 Continuation of: A New Vision from Desktop Management Part 1 It’s a fact that Desktop...
View ArticleApplication Virtualization Value Proposition
Application Virtualization can benefit the entire enterprise as follows: Assists IT departments by reducing or eliminating the labor-intensive tasks involved with application lifecycle management....
View ArticleApplication Virtualization: Catch the Wave
In recent years the technology world has increasingly gone “virtual” in a number of areas. First we had virtual local area networks and server-based virtualization. This helped consolidate resources by...
View ArticleA New Vision for Desktop Management – White Paper
A couple of years ago, a couple of colleagues and I created a two-part white paper on Desktop Management which I never published here… Still very relevant so here you go.. A New Vision for Desktop...
View ArticleNew Vision Desktop Management – Article Series
Desktop management is now a critical function of IT services within any organization. Historically, standalone computers and small networks did not require much centralization and management. However,...
View ArticleWindows Intune – Cloud-based Desktop Management
The beta version of Windows Intune, formerly known as System Center Online Desktop Management, it is now officially part of the Microsoft Online Services. is now in full beta. Windows Intune...
View ArticleWindows 8 – USB Drivers Signature Issue
On Monday, I was trying to place a presentation on a USB drive on my Windows 8 machine, and after a several attempts (different ports and drives) I discover that the USB drivers in Device Manager all...
View ArticleThe AppCompat Guy
Article by Rob West As Windows 7 relieves a lot of the pent-up demand for a new OS from Microsoft and unblocks the anti-Vista sentiment that has been one of the major impediments to widespread...
View ArticleReflections on Windows 7 Launch
Article by Rob West As my esteemed colleague Jorge points out, it has been a busy summer (and now autumn) for us on this team, and as such, our posting frequency has not been, shall we say,...
View ArticleTechnology Wave comming in late 2009 / early 2010
Office 2010 is finally coming out for air now – check out the newly released Office 2010 Official Blog site – This announcement prompted me to do a bit of a quick online check as to what’s ahead in...
View ArticleXP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
“Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.” – Theodore Logan. In this case it would be at the “Circle M” – strange and cool things. I downloaded and installed XP Mode onto my Windows 7 RC 1 base image...
View ArticleTechEd SCCM 2012 Sessions
As mentioned in an earlier post, Microsoft is doing a great job at letting folks that could not attend TechEd 2012, access the great content that was presented.. There is a ton that is changing…...
View ArticleWindows 8 Impressions After 30 days
I have been using Windows 8 RTM (and Office 2013 Preview) on my primary laptop for about 30 days now, and have been very pleased with the experience. I am a semi-typical knowledge worker / technology...
View ArticleMDOP 101 – What’s so great about the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack?
If you haven’t already heard of it, you will: The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, or MDOP for short, is an add-on subscription for customers with Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) coverage for...
View ArticleImaging Solutions for the New Millennium
Is your company struggling with its migration plan to move to Microsoft Vista or Windows Server 2008? Does your IT Staff dread the thought of having to deploy new hardware in your enterprise...
View ArticleFree Webinar: Desktop Management – The Business Value of Application...
I thought some of you might be interested in a free event that our team is putting on, centered around the business value of virtualizing applications. For Infrastructure Optimization wonks like...
View ArticleFollow the “D”: BDD -> MD -> MDT!
I certainly hope this is the last of the name thrashing on this product for awhile. For those of you just getting used to the name change from Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator to...
View ArticleUpgrading from MD 1.0 to MDT 2008
If you’re a user of Microsoft Deployment 1.x and upgrading to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008, then you’ll want to pop over to Michael Niehaus’ blog, where he’s posted instructions on this...
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