I might be stretching a point a little (well actually quite a lot) with the title, but just like Software as a Service gets rid of all the redundant effort that goes on in every enterprise delivering software, so Architecture as a Service is doing the same thing. A few examples of...
In this interesting post Mike Gotta asks “Will Microsoft Become Facebook for the Enterprise?” I think the answer is a definite YES. Whilst I think there is a role for LinkedIn or FaceBook for inter-enterprise social networking I still think that Intra-enterprise social networking is hugely important and I think...
Worklight – an enterprise RSS provider – have a really useful white paper on secure RSS, which complements and extends some of my previous posts on this topic. Other posts on this topic can be found here.
I have recently been thinking a bit about Enterprise RSS and getting frustrated by key features that seem to be missing, confusing or partially implemented, two examples being: Lack of unread status syncing between multiple clients of the Windows Common Feed Store Lack of support for basic authentication in the Windows...
Microsoft reveal a lot of useful info about terminal services improvements in Longhorn in this chat, I can see myself making a lot of use of this on my lab servers at home as well as for customers: Application Publishing with client-side file type associations Seamless Windows A Terminal Server...
RSS has grown up on the public Internet and it seems that authentication will be problematic when it moves into the Intranet. On Intranets expect to find the following authentication mechanisms: NTLM kerberos Digest Forms based Basic (usually combined with SSL) Only the last of these mechanisms can be assumed...
When I work on desktop transformation projects I am continually amazed by the number of applications that we find installed in an enterprise. It’s not unusual to find several thousand in a medium sized company, most of them used by less than 10 people. However as Rod Boothby points out...
Mike Gotta provides an excellent description of the concept of context zones and how they allow us to deal with information in a way that reflects our needs, or as Mike puts it: the right information, at the right time, in the right context, has been a holy grail for...
Ron Oglesby has written an interesting article on the Brian Madden blog about the future of Virtualization, I highly recommend that you read all the comments as well. One of the points raised in the comments concerns the over use of the Virtualization word, which I fully agree with, it...
I am a real fan of Windows PowerShell, not least because of the quality of the team who have worked on it and I have blogged about it a few times before. I was disappointed that it’s not pervasive in Vista although I know all about the need to make...