Until now there were a couple of ways to determine if your applications were compatible with Windows 7 – you can test everything, look them up one-by-one in the Windows Compatibility Center, or inventory your production machines using the Application...

With Windows 7 now available to everyone, we are beginning to hear more and more requests from IT Professionals for content they can use to get their support teams and users up to speed on the end user features of Windows 7. We have spent a lot of time...

For those of you reading our newsletter , following our Twitter feed or blogs, you are aware that I the Springboard Series partnered with Microsoft Learning for the “ Get On The Bus Tour ” The goal was to bring information on Windows 7, Server...

Coming to TechEd EMEA? Well make sure you stop by the Springboard or Talking About Windows booths! Why? Well, in addition to all the cool information on Windows 7 we have to share with you we have tons of cool opportunities and prizes! Talking About Windows...

So this is the fifth and final part of the series about deployment and all of the subtasks you need to do. Admittedly, I set out to do this in one page and I think with small font and a decent-sized plotter, you may just be able to get this to print onto...

Now that we’ve talked about deployment all-up, data migration, and application compatibility, let’s focus on imaging. Now this is not the imaging that involves photos and cameras, but the imaging of computer disks. Quick History Lesson for...

If you are like most desktop service managers, you probably have several applications that you manage and depending on your users, there may be several applications that you don’t know about. There are a few places out there where “Standard...

I debated on what part 2 of this blog series should be - hardware and software compatibility or data migration. I chose data migration purely based on the automation steps in the chain I listed out in the first blog and because there aren't many things...

This is the first blog in a series of blogs explaining how to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7. As the enterprise operating system deployment guy, I often get requests for a "one-page" article on performing desktop deployment or migrating Windows...

Now that Windows 7 is available, are you looking for some security baseline recommendations from the experts? Then here’s another timely release from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team! Today, new security baselines for Windows® 7 and...

This post was written by Devrim Iyigun, a Senior Product Manager here in Redmond. I had a chance to attend Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 last week in Orlando, Florida. For those of you who are at the early stages of deploying Windows 7, looking for some...

Beginning today, 26 October, the Springboard/Microsoft Learning “Get On The Bus” tour will kick off an 11-city European road show that will begin in Milan and end at Tech-Ed Europe in Berlin on 9 November. At each tour stop, you’ll get...

Over the past months, my colleagues from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team have been hard at work to develop the planning and design guidance for DirectAccess. Today, we are pleased to announce the release of the Infrastructure Planning and Design...

Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave this past year you probably know that today is the official market launch of Windows 7. While Windows 7 has been available to commercial customers since July, this milestone marks the point where the final release...

Thank you again for all of you who tuned in live for our most recent virtual roundtable. We had so many questions asked during the broadcast, we were unable to get to all of them so I am dedicating this blog post to the questions and to the answers provided...