I learnt about this particular event through Mark Johnston’s blog and it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about Microsoft’s web technologies. It’s a full day of goodness with two tracks, one for design students and the other for developers. Judging from the agenda, I would say that if you are a pure designer…
Tag: Deployment
What is MDOP and what’s the big deal?
We’ve sold 1,000,000 licenses for MDOP since October 2006 – so it must be pretty important right? So what is it? Well, it stands for Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack (you’ll need to use Optimization if you want to Live it) and is a set of desktop management tools available through Software Assurance. With the pack…
How to save $1,000,000 on your IT deployment and support with application virtualisation
Well, it depends a lot on your individual circumstances as a organisation but the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle have managed to do save $1,000,000. Their IT is quite big with 500 applications across 4,500 desktops and 150 thin desktops and they have just over 7200 employees. They made their savings by being smart about…
Specify which applications you share with the community on ACT
The Application Compatibility Toolkit allows you to specify which compatibility information you share based on the application tested. So for example if you have compatibility information for bespoke, home grown applications that you don’t want to share with the online community you can choose not to do so. To configure which application compatibility information you share…
UAC "Split Token" workaround
Older apps weren’t designed with UAC in mind and there can be some compatibility problems during the installation and use of software. When developing applications now and in the future, there are some UAC guidelines available but in the meantime you might find this workaround useful if you come across problems with UAC. Hat tip…
WAIK documentation online
In an all-round smart move, the TechNet folk have published the WAIK documentation online for your deployment pleasure. My favourite bits are where you can customise the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) and configure the Welcome Center and also what the user sees the first time they start Vista; things like configuring Wallpaper, Creating Users…