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How BYOD will keep a 1-to-1 computer program viable in the Education sector

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The bring-your-own-device era has begun and demand is growing within I.T departments globally from requests made by end-users to connect up their devices. For sometime now it has been a common place for enterprises to have a BYOD policy among executives, allowing them to be highly mobile and flexible. BYOD has turned from concept to reality for many organisations as […]

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Speculation on Windows 8.1 codenamed “Blue” Update

Leave a Comment / Microsoft News, Technology News, Technology Preview, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8, Windows Server 2012 /

We have read for the most part of this year; roughly since around early February, that Microsoft plans to release a new build of Windows. This “refresh” of Windows 8 has been codenamed “Windows Blue”. Microsoft have this month only officially confirmed some facts on this update expected to ship in August 2013; about one year on from the RTM

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How to manage Windows 8 User Profiles when a user moves between Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers

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This article might help clear up any confusion with challenges the new Windows 8 User Profile format presents with regards to backwards-compatibility issues when supporting users who still have a Windows 7-based system and now have a new Windows 8-based device simultaneously. Obviously due to the new Windows 8 profile format, this will produce headaches for System Administrators who may

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Office 365 Demo Site for Partners

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If you’re a Microsoft partner and have been looking for a way to demonstrate the Office 365 cloud services to potential customers; this new site allows just that. Microsoft have set up a self provisioning demo site that lets you (the partner) configure a demo tenant account on the Office 365 platform and provide all the sales and demo

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How to deploy SkyDrive Pro 2013 Client as a stand-alone application

7 Comments / Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Microsoft SkyDrive Pro, SharePoint 2013 /

Update: This information is still relevant pre-service pack 1 for Office 2013. Since the service pack release, SkyDrive Pro now has been renamed to OneDrive for Business and the standalone download has been repackaged also. Update from Microsoft: SkyDrive Pro Stand-alone Client is now available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39050 For some additional licensing information read Hans’s post:

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WSUS Update to enable support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Windows Update management

Leave a Comment / I.T Professionals, Microsoft Small Business Specialists, Small Business, System Administrator Tools, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Update /

This is a quick post, if you’re looking for the update issued to enable Windows Update support on the latest versions of Microsoft operating systems on your existing WSUS 3.0 SP2 servers, then this is it. An update for Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 is available (KB2734608) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2734608 I needed the above update to patch an SBS

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Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop speaks about how Nokia is making a comeback in the smartphone market

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I had planned to write a blog post reviewing my Nokia Lumia 920 that I had recently purchased back in January,  but never got around to it. I made my purchase decision with the intent of buying a Windows Phone 8 device. Currently there is only select few manufacturers who have developed WP8 devices and having owned HTC Windows Phones for the last 6 or

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SharePoint 2010 Server: Security Token Service stops working after installing KB 2756920

Leave a Comment / .NET Framework 3.5, I.T Professionals, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, RTM, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 /

Last week a SharePoint 2010 Server farm I manage stopped working, I could browse the Central Administration site collection but none of the other site collections would load. All of them would trigger a generic SharePoint error dialog and not let you go any further. Essentially the farm was broken, looking into the problem I found that the Security Token

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Microsoft launches Visual Studio Team Foundation Service into production

1 Comment / Development Tools, Free Software, Microsoft News, Microsoft Partners, Programming & Development, Software Development, Team Foundation Service, Visual Studio, Web Development /

I was a bit slow on the pick up of this news, but today learnt that Microsoft have finally launched the Visual Studio Team Foundation Service into production for the general public to subscribe! What’s better and you may not know this, they are also offering up to 5 users for free, and for a limited time

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SharePoint 2013 Pre-Requisites Configuration Error on Windows Server 2012

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This morning I came across a small problem when running the pre-requisites tool for configuring a new SharePoint 2013 farm, specifically when the tool was attempting to install “Application Server and IIS Web Server roles” it would fail with no detail as to why? Not being documented all that well on TechNet I wasted some time trying to figure out

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