August 2008 - Posts

Maintenance booting your Windows machines
18 August 08 03:35 PM | JoelSchoenberg | 0 Comments   

In the Windows Automated Installation Kit, you have all the tools you need to create customized maintenance operating systems. Many people have asked how to optimize the boot time and size of these mainenance OSs. I thought I would point out a few of Read More...

Filed under: MDT, MDOP, WinPE, DaRT

Want Virtual Desktop Infrastructure? Well....got network?
14 August 08 04:13 PM | JoelSchoenberg | 1 Comments   

Over and over, people trying out the virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) approach to enterprise computing (Xen Desktop and such) notice a distinctly poor user experience compared to the traditional rich Windows client desktop. It seems that taking Read More...

Already own MDOP? Start using what you bought today by downloading Assset Inventory Service (AIS).
14 August 08 03:47 PM | JoelSchoenberg | 0 Comments   

The easiest Software+Service product to use right now is the Asset Inventory Service (AIS) in the Microsoft Deskop Optimization Pack (MDOP video here ). In fact, a thorough step-by-step guide ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb964349.aspx Read More...

Filed under: MDOP, AIS

Microsoft's online services...is your uploaded data really private?
14 August 08 02:50 PM | JoelSchoenberg | 0 Comments   

Many in the technology industry now agree that Microsoft's Software+Services approach will gain many followers as the killer rich client software applications use the services in the cloud to make the complete experience more valuable and pleasurable. Read More...

Filed under: AIS

New Windows 7 blog straight from THE source!
14 August 08 02:39 PM | JoelSchoenberg | 0 Comments   

Starting today, Steven Sinofsky (leading the Windows group), Jon DeVaan (leading Windows engineering) and the Windows Engineers are co-authors of a new blog that is specifically focusing on the coming wave of client technology in Windows 7. It is a treasure Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7

Welcome
12 August 08 01:16 PM | JoelSchoenberg | 1 Comments   

Hello readers, welcome to Joel's new blog! After years of publishing technical content in an offline newsletter where distribution was more controlled, I have moved to blogging this content to disperse this information more quickly and in a wider scale. Read More...