Sam asked me a couple of weeks ago to blog about my new Office. I’ve been resisting because I wanted to spend at least a month working in it before I felt ready to really comment on how it’s changed my life. Seems a bit of a bold statement “changed...
I’m watching an old episode of the West Wing and the “President” – Martin Sheen – just said “one of the good things about having MS is that you learn to appreciate the good days”. I don’t have MS, but I do have a chronic condition with good days and...
My trustworthy Blackberry 8800 was upgraded to a Bold last week and after much anticipation I can definitely say it’s been a very worthwhile upgrade. I’ve made these notes which might help anyone considering or receiving a bold in the near future. Background I’ve previously been an enthusiastic user of...
I’ve known for years that I will eventually switch to Firefox, the richness of the extensibility appeals too much to a tinkering power user like myself, but it’s taken me literally years to get comfortable enough with it to drop Maxthon as my day to day browser. To date Maxthon...
I’ve hardly done any blogging since I started to use Twitter so as an experiment I thought I would enable email blogging on my wordpress account and see if I blog any more often now that I have no excuse!
Open source has always been difficult at Microsoft, they’ve struggled with how to use its obvious value as a development and delivery model, but the SharePoint podcasting kit seems to be a great example of how to do it right. Although SharePoint itself is unlikely to ever be Open Source...
I picked up a few useful bits of information during iForum this week: Citrix predict that between 30 and 50% of people will be mobile by 2010 Some form of rights management is required when delivering to unmanaged PCs. For example XenApp has a type of rights management, ie it...
This was a very difficult session to follow, so the following notes are not that great Multi-media virtualization to any end point, over the ICA channel Apollo Streaming media 3D graphics Remote audio/video extensions, not in XenDesktop – but it is supported with the Linux Wyse thin client At some...
Challenges How do I ensure that users get their own personalised workspace How do I ensure that end user productivity impact is minimised during the migration How do I deal with some continued use of some local applications How do I ensure that my Virtual machines continue to be up...
Delivered by Steve Maytum – VP – End user platforms Today 54,000 managed XP desktop, two builds. Modified the Gina to add a “borrow” button to RDP to a CPS environment or RDP to the users desktop PC, this is similar to what CSC have done, but my modifying the...