In theory, BDD is not for what MS calls small business customers - i.e. less than 25 PCs, but for some the tools are amazing. The BDD is described as: "A tool that provides the depth of guidance and tooling to make the Windows Vista and 2007 Office system deployment process predictable and scalable....
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on Thu, Jan 18 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Office System, Support and Tools, Windows Server 2003, Windows Client, Windows XP, Vista, Office 2007, Documentation
This is an interesting one - I have IE 7 installed on all my machines except my SBS 2003 server and the reason for it not being on there is because I like to have an IE6 hanging around for those sites where I have no other option - and browsing on the server (sorry Susan) is something I really, really...
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on Tue, Jan 16 2007
Filed under: SBS 2003, Windows 7, Vista and XP, Developer, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Windows Client, Windows XP, Vista
I got a mail from Vijay and never quite made the "putting it on the blog", so before time runs out too much, two great colleagues of mine are presenting Office and Vista and obviously, having the group meeting. From the web site http://www.nxtgenug.net/ViewEvent.aspx?EventID=39 this is the information...
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on Tue, Jan 16 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Office System, Community, Event, SBSC, Windows Client, Vista, Office 2007
Partner TV has been busy recently, with this discussion about Microsoft UK's own deployment of Vista and Office 2007 . An except from the site says: James Senior talks to Asif Jinnah, the Senior IT manager for Microsoft UK, about the internal deployment of Vista and Office 2007. Asif also talks about...
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on Mon, Jan 15 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Office System, Support and Tools, Microsoft, Windows Client, Vista, Office 2007
There is a benchmark / system test tool in Vista called WinSAT. You can test all sorts of things and those of you who want to poke around in it you can. However I found a less than used feature and it gives you an expensive Aurora backdrop in Windows. To make this work, open up an elevated cmd prompt...