Multicast NLB with UAG SP1 and DirectAccess
Posted by Todd on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Build two Windows Phone 7.5 apps, get a free device.
Posted by Todd on Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Microsoft has announced a program, build two Windows Phone 7.5 apps, get a free device. Full details at http://www.microsoft.com/canada/offers-promotions/mango-app-challenge/
Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring Registry Edit
Posted by Todd on Thursday, September 8th, 2011
I have been in the pilot stages of a Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) implementation here at the school board. For my pilot, I am using a single server implementation. Now, in real life to implement MBAM you should be using a three server or five server implementation. I pinged @StephenLRose asking what the difference would be between three and five and the response was basically around where you would want the roles hosted and not about scalability. Size wise, 25,000 clients is what each MBAM implementation can handle.
New Explorer Features in Windows 8
Posted by Todd on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
There is a great post over on the Building Windows 8 Blog on the new explorer features.
Building Windows 8 – Video #3 – Showing new Copy Features
Posted by Todd on Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Microsoft has revealed new copy features in Building Windows 8 Video 3. It looks pretty slick. If you start multiple copy jobs, you can stop copy jobs to make other job move quicker. We all know starting multiple copies causes issues with speed.
Mobile Hotspot Feature in Windows Phone 7
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Looks like Windows Phone 7 Mango will be getting a mobile hotspot feature.
The full details can be found at http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/08/windows-phone-mangos-wi-fi-hotspot-secret.ars
Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1
Posted by Todd on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Just noticed today that Microsoft has release update rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP1.
It contains the Exchange 2010 change called out in KB Article 2543879: PDF attachment from a Mac Mail client is not displayed when you use Outlook 2010 to open the email message in an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 environment.
Windows Server 8–Hyper-V
Posted by Todd on Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
At the Worldwide Partner conference in Los Angeles earlier this month, Microsoft showed off some new Hyper-V features in what is codenamed Windows Server 8.
Windows 7 Deployment Presentation in Sudbury Tonight!
Posted by Todd on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Are you running Windows XP? Are you feeling the pressure of creating a deployment plan? Have no fear! Leveraging learning’s from one of early adopters this session will give you the skills you need to proceed with your own deployment. The session will focus on free Windows 7 deployment planning and deployment tools that customize operating system packages and automate deployment planning and network deployments seamlessly. We will dive right into: WAIT! There is more to read… read on »