Bitlocker Pin and Software Patching
In the last number of years many businesses have started rolling out Full Disk Encryption software throughout their IT Environment’s enabling piece of mind and security to prevent Data Loss / Theft, but this introduced many different issues for IT Administrators in general. Later iterations of Encryption products allowed...
Forgotten Tools: Altiris DS
As consultants we always have the challenge of migrating from one Desktop OS to a Newer Version and normally we stick to the same products: USMT, SCCM and Radia CAE; Its rare that we deviate from this because we know that USMT + SCCM or Radia is bullet proof,...
Windows + BootCamp (Mac)
Mitch Garvis has a great article on running Windows 7 with BootCamp on Intel Based Macs. See here: Click Here...
GPO Central Store Update for Windows 7 (External)
My Colleague Alex Verboon has a great article on updating your Group Policy Central Store with your Windows 7 ADMX templates, a must for any GPO Administrator. http://www.verboon.info/index.php/2009/11/updating-the-central-store-for-windows-7-group-policy-administrative-templates/ Michael...
Way cool feature in Windows 7 with Bing
Thanks to one of my colleagues for showing me this, its really cool! Daily Bing search engine images consist of awesome collection of photos from amazing nature photos to holiday sensitive events. If you really don’t have time to change desktop wallpaper then you can use this great feature...
Windows 98, Where it all started for me
With all the stuff in our modern operating systems its easy to take the small things for granted. Booting your Windows 7 install off your USB Key, watching videos on youtube, RSS’ing up your Favourite news / comic feeds, listening to your favourite music over Spotify or finishing your...
8 Things To Think About For Windows 7
Great article on some things to think about with Windows 7 http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220301670&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_Security...
Windows 7 Skype Bug
So you’ve got Windows 7 and Skype installed; Your browsing your sites and suddenly you get a “Internet Explorer has stopped responding” message… Odd It hasn’t crashed ? All my tabs are the same…. Good news, its just the Skype ActivX addins, for some reason crashing or terminating abnormally....
Windows 7 Version Breakdown (Engadget)
From www.engadget.com Remember that screenshot we saw of all those different Windows 7 versions (pictured above)? Well guess what? It’s worse than you could have possibly imagined. The following will be the actual new SKUs for the OS: Windows 7 Starter (limited to three apps concurrently) Windows 7 Home...