In addition to the Office 2010 Migration Guides that are available since a while Microsoft recently published the Microsoft Office 2010 System End User Training Toolkit. The Microsoft Office 2010 End User Training Kit is a set of end-user training content for Microsoft Office 2010 and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. Users can [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Knowledge category.
All you need to know about Group Policy versioning
Ever wondered how the Group Policy versioning works? Below you find a number of articles and resources that provide a good insight how GPO versioning works. Group Policy Team Blog – Understanding the Domain based GPO version number TechNet – Displaying Version Properties of a Group Policy Object MSDN – Group Policy: Core Protocol Specification [...]
ReadTip: BranchCache Learning Roadmap
Microsoft has published a BranchCache Learning Roadmap document. Download the document from here This learning roadmap provides you with links to prerequisite information you need to understand and deploy BranchCache, and also provides links to BranchCache information from level 100 to level 300. In addition there are links to optional information that will enhance your [...]
ReadTip: Best Practice: Active Directory Structure Guidelines
Alan Burchill author of the Group Policy Center blog has posted 2 great articles on Best Practices for Active Directory Structures. Best Practice:Active Directory Structure Guidelines – Part 1 Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2
ToolTip: Microsoft Product Support Reports and Microsoft Product Support Reports Viewer
If you get tasked to do some system troubleshooting and you just want to get as many information possible from a client, then have a look at the Microsoft Product Support Report Tool and the Product Support Reports Viewer. The Microsoft Product Support Reports Viewer 2.0 can be downloaded from here and the Microsoft Product [...]
Windows 7 – User Account Control
Today I spend a bit of time in refreshing my UAC knowledge, below a listing of the content I’ve been reading and watching. Reading (Blogs & TechNet) User Account Control in Windows 7 Best Practices UAC Architecture Inside Windows 7 User Account Control The Windows 7 UAC Slider, and What You Can Do on Windows [...]
Windows 7 Enterprise Training
One of the objectives of deploying a new operating system within an Enterprise is to provide end users with a state of the art Operating System that builds the foundation for adopting new technologies and to increase end user productivity. IT departments usually spend months in preparing an enterprise wide desktop deployment and by doing [...]
MED-V demo videos
If you’re planning to do some hands-on with MED-V I recommend that you have a look at these MED-V videos.
Using Hard Links – Part One
Nowadays we often hear the term Hard link in conjunction with Windows 7 deployments, this because the User State Migration Tool 4.0 aka USMT now provides support for hard links. The advantage of using hard links is that there is no explicit need to copy the data away from the machine before installing Windows 7. [...]
ReadTip: What’s New in Folder Redirection and User Profiles
Windows 7 introduces some improvements for Folder Redirection and User Profiles. If you are planning to use these technologies make sure to read the What’s New in Folder Redirection and User Profiles document.
