Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I am just getting ready to leave the office to take care of some last minute items before leaving for Tucson early tomorrow. I thought I'd write a quick blog post since it's been a few weeks since the last one.
I'm slowing ramping up on SMS 2003, and also understanding what's going to be in SCCM 2007. It's going better than I expected but of course, I'd prefer the knowledge and understanding to be instantly uploaded into my brain, rather than over a period of months...
I got my desktop system all set up today (finally!). I installed Vista and Office 2007 on it. After a few hiccups, I got connected to the domain. Apparently somehow the network install from MS IT joined me to a workgroup, so I could only get to certain things on the network. Props to me for figuring out by myself what the problem was. Those Win 2000 MCSE classes sure do pay off at random times.
This is the first time I've used Vista, and wow are the graphics impressive. There's a small learning curve associated with finding stuff, not quite as bad as the move from Win2000 to XP, but still noticeable. My very early impression of Vista is that it's just so *pretty*.
And IE 7, which is included with Vista, is also very different. I haven't used it enough to comment on the features yet but having tabs available for pages is really cool. (Yes, I know Firefox already had that. I don't use Firefox so it's new to me.)
I played around (for way too long) last night with Ed Holloway's Ink Blog plug-in for Windows Live Writer. I got it to work on my personal blog, so I think I might try it out occasionally here too. It lets you blog using the handwriting feature on a Tablet PC. Too cool. I've been wondering how to do that for a while, and just ran across this tool in an Internet search.
So I guess the subtitle of this post is "cool technology that I'm thankful for". Have a Happy Thanksgiving, and enjoy your time off!