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My colleagues and I get asked a lot about licensing. Frankly, Microsoft doesn’t have a great reputation for keeping it simple. And to be totally transparent – I, like many of my colleagues, would usually rather stick a fork in my eye that talk about it because it can get complicated. And confusing. And just…ugh. So you can ...

My good Friend Jeff Alexander over on the other side of the world down under (he’s THE infrastructure evangelist for Australia) posted up this nifty link and tool. It’s part of the big glob of stuff called Springboard, whenever something cool and useful bubbles up I want to make sure you know about it. It really comes down to “How do I know – ...

On Microsoft Connect in the Solutions Accelerator section, there is a new program to play with. It is the Physical to Virtual (P2V) for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). It will automate turning a Windows XP computer into a Windows XP mode virtual machine. Head to connect.microsoft.com for the program. Here is the details from the connect site: ...

If you manage drivers in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, you know it can get unwieldy to manage all the drivers in one big folder. I had done it that way for quite a while as I only had 3 or 4 builds of computers that I managed from MDT. These days though I manage about 10 [...]

Information on how to manage drivers from multiple vendors in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.

Micrososft Deployment Toolkit Update 1 has been released. I talk about some new features that have helped me out and provided the download link.

A look at how to setup the DNS settings in your domain to make a KMS Server work correctly.

Information on how to setup a KMS Host Server for Office 2010

Are you running Windows XP?  Are you feeling the pressure of creating a deployment plan? Have no fear!  Leveraging learning’s from two Windows 7 early adopters this session will give you the skills you need to proceed with your own deployment.  The session will focus on free Windows 7 deployment planning and deployment tools that ...

Instructions on how to setup a KMS Server for Windows 7 activation using Windows Server 2008 R2.