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If you missed Microsoft’s live webcast “Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud”, you may want to take the 1 hour and 15 minutes to watch the recorded webcast. Why? Microsoft made several announcement around the Private Cloud and what System Center 2012 brings to the datacenter. They also made some major announcements on System Center [...]

Private Cloud has been driving the need for service providers to track the software resources deployed, and resources consumed to be able to “charge back” the department consuming the services. In organizations with a centralized IT department delivering services to business divisions and departments, there are a couple of scenarios where charge back makes sense: [...]

LiveScribe Smart Pens can now export your handwritten notes and “pen casts”, including audio from your Digital Pen into OneNote, Evernote, Google Apps, Email…. using LiveScribe Connect. You can then sully search the notes and recordings in OneNote. This also means that you can sync these to you SkyDrive account and access them through a [...]

Watch how Nokia developed their first Windows Phone…

Windows Intune was updated on October 17, 2011. This release has many new features, including: the ability to distribute third-party software manage Microsoft and non-Microsoft licenses better control of remote PCs ease of use enhancement with context-driven menus, improved navigation, and color-coded alerts that you can sort according to your own parameters. Windows Intune combines [...]

Ultra Notebooks (thin notebooks) and Slate devices ship without Optical (CD/DVD) Drives. This makes it more challenging to install a new OS from scratch onto one of these devices. Using a larger capacity USB device you can create a Bootable Utility USB Flash Device (UFB). MSDN explains how to do this in these articles: 1. [...]

The Windows BUILD conference kicked off this week on Tuesday (Nov 13, 2011) with a great Keynote presentation that showed off the Windows 8 Developer Prerelease. Besides showing off the UI, they also discussed hardware, and of course developing Apps and publishing them through the Windows App Store. On Wednesday (Nov 14, 2011) they Keynote [...]

Colleagues have warned of a Technical Support Scams taking place that seem to be targeting end users. Here is a synopsis of how a recent call went, according to a workmate: Caller: “…the global Internet server is showing your computer is generating 100’s of errors per second.” User: “Where are you calling from and who [...]

VMware has a couple new marketing campaigns and slogans they recently started using. Take a look… “The Journey to Your Cloud” “The Power Behind Your Cloud” This seems really familiar, doesn’t it?…. Oh yeah, that’s where we’ve seen it.   “Journey to the Cloud”  and… “Cloud Power”

Microsoft ForeFront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 has new features to protect your corporate users from Web-site based Malware. This is a subscription service that you can purchase through Volume Licensing. What can really be confusing is entering the License Key for enabling the Malware Inspection service on TMG. I have been asked where do [...]