August 2012 - Posts
For ages, organizations deploying Windows installations wanted a uniform look for their machines, to work on their professional image towards employees, partners and customers. Now, in Windows 8, a couple of new Group Policy settings have been introduced
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Windows 8 offers new Group Policy settings to protect the privacy of the people using the computer, and also comes with a slew of new security features, that (surprise, surprise!) can also be centrally managed with Group Policy. 1. Turn off Windows Location
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With wireless connectivity getting available in an increasing number of countries and locations, the business value of having access to wireless networks on the go (whether they are 3G or 4G networks) is getting more clear. However, where some of the
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Being one of the first companies to roll out Windows 8 to our employees and aiming to be done with the deployment before October 26nd 2012 (the date Windows 8 becomes available to everyone on new computers), we’re looking at Group Policy settings to make
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Microsoft has made Windows 8 available to everyone, wanting to deploy and/or test drive it. Since, without this news, it’s a slow news week, Martin Broerse has, once again , invited me to join his ITbende podcast this morning. I joined for the first 30
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With Microsoft readying its marketing, distribution and OEM channel to put Windows 8 in the market, as a dedicated IT Professional you might want a head start on your organization, your customers and/or your family on this Operating System. Windows 8
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Last week, I technically reviewed ‘ Windows 8: Out of the Box ’, as published by O’Reilly and available both as print and ebook. Per today you can pre-order the paperback at Amazon . About the book Windows 8: Out of the Box is a 130-page book, explaining
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With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft introduces a new local file system, called Resilient File System (ReFS). This file system can be used as an alternative to NTFS, the file system we’ve come to love and use on our servers in the past years. When it comes
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With the release of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, many people are eager to download and install the latest and greatest Operating Systems from Redmond. For people who have deployed one of the pre-release versions of Windows 8, Windows Server 8 and
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Just as Microsoft announced, both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been released to manafucturers (RTM’ed) in the first week of August. Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 were RTM'ed with buildnumbers 9200 and build dates of July 25th, 2012. The
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