Just a guy – talking about technology … in an uncomplicated way.
I was on point for The Edge Show recently and decided to talk with my buddy Zach Alexander a PM on the Group Policy team on what’s new and cool in Group Policy these days. Three things immediately came to mind: Infrastructure Status Remote Update on client systems Improved Resultant Set of Policy. I helped…
My team has hosted a number of online “JumpStarts” for Microsoft Learning focused on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. In case you missed them – they are live multi-day events streamed online focused on a particular technology and have an interactive Q&A panel where you can get your questions answered. This interaction and Q&A…
An unexpected slowdown issue had me baffled a not too long ago with timeouts to online services, web surfing, network access – generally everything had delays in starting / connecting. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why. Then it struck me. I was using Windows 8 Hyper-V feature for some screencasts here…
If you’ve used Windows 8 for any length of time, you’ve probably clicked on a link to open a website in an email or document and it’s opened in the “UI that was formerly known as Metro” version of IE. It may not have rendered correctly – which you rectified by opening up the site…
In this continuing series I’ve covered the basics of setting up a good system from a “fit and finish” perspective so you are ready to go. I harped on some things that a lot of people don’t think about – clock / timezone, preparing your command prompts, cleaning up the clutter – all these things…