Early on in any project, I work with the project team to define what browser/operating system (OS) combinations the project will support. I try my best to get the team to limit the number of browser/OS combinations supported because each supported combination adds to the testing and development effort. For software that’s designed for internal…
Microsoft has created an update for USMT 4.0 that adds support for Office 2010. USMT 4.0 migrations of Office 2010 are now supported . You can get the update here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2023591 Here are some things you should be aware of: Certain settings and customizations in MS Word won’t migrate from any version to Word 2010,…
I found this article on the MSDN site that describes how to connect your Mindstorm to an XBOX controller. How cool! http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Microsoft-Robotics-Studio-and-Lego-Mindstorms-NXT Two major things stuck out to me after reading this blog: 1. Apparently there is some issue with using a 64 bit system and using the XInputGamepad service. I’m running a 64 bit O/S,…
Many people find the photos in the window border to be a little distracting. It is easy to turn them off by adding a registry key. Follow these simple steps: 1) Save the text below between the lines into a text file and rename the file “dontShowContactPicture.reg”. —— Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Options\Mail] "ShowContactPicture"=dword:00000000…
I was recently reviewing a site for a friend of mine to look for ways to optimize for SEO in addition to some usability recommendations and I came across one optimization which often gets overlooked, but shouldn’t. In this case, there were a number of images used on the site, but when I looked under…
Assuming that the analyst has the basic abilities required to gather the necessary requirements for the system being created or modified, what can be done to insure that users actually understand what will be delivered? This is the question of the age! Let’s cut to the chase and say this about communicating requirements: If you…
This came from the myITforum SMS email distribution list. Credit to Richard Benfield for figuring this out and posting the solution to the mail list. Here is the long and short of getting the SCCM vNext VHD Test Drive to work for Native VHD Boot: 1) Download the SCCM vNext VHD Test Drive from…
Someone had some questions about Hyper-V today and this link was given. WOW. Talk about the mother load of information! Hyper-V: Survival Guide This is a list of Hyper-V resources you can add too, and feel free to rearrange. Just click the "Edit" button above the article. For organization ideas, and other important links, see:…
Recently has some internal discussions around these two items. I wanted to post the information for others to find so they don’t have to “dig” for it as we had to. The specific questions at hand were: 1) For a thin client, can we push software to a Windows Embedded Standard 2009 system while leaving…
Read the original post here. Hi All, I just wanted to send a quick reminder that System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 has reached the end of its service pack support date: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&qid=null&alpha=System+Center+Configuration+Manager+2007&Filter=FilterNO Note that per the Lifecycle Policy: The Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy requires that the product’s supported service pack be installed…
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