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Team member Kim Griffiths has this to share today: On Wednesday, Nov. 18th, I'll be hosting a webcast that will give you info on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 deployment planning. The webcast will run 60 minutes and will go into the best practices and lessons learned from dealing with volume activation...
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Today at TechEd Europe 2009, one of our Windows 7 enterprise customers, Petter Wersland, Lead Architect at Statoil , participated in a panel discussion with Stephen Elop , President of Microsoft’s Business Division as a part of the keynote presentation. We caught up with Petter Wersland just before this...
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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 a single page, but most people won’t. For...
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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 System Imaging Imaging tools have been around for...
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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 User” or “Least-Privileged User”...
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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 that excite me more in the Windows 7 deployment...
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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 XP PCs to Windows 7. Although I have seen full length...
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Last month, Gavriella Schuster discussed the features you will see in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2 and today I’m pleased to announce its availability! Over on the MDOP Team blog, Ran Oelgiesser provided details about what you can expect with the latest release and today he shares...
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Are you looking to learn more about Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010 and other Microsoft products? Well the New Efficiency Virtual Launch Event is the perfect opportunity to do so. What will you find there? Steve Ballmer’s Keynote Replay Over 100 sessions presented by Microsoft...
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As you already know, on August 7th we made Windows 7 RTM available to our Volume License (VL) customers who have Software Assurance (SA). Windows Server customers are able to download 2008 R2 as of August 14th and on September 1st, we announced VL customers without SA are able to purchase Windows 7 through...