Author Archives: Tom Basham

Microsoft User Experience Virtualization

Microsoft User Experience Virtualisation is new user settings tool from Microsoft to help with Windows 7 and Windows 8 deployments, especially in VDI environments. Roaming Profiles. Read More…

Apple Mac OSX Wi-Fi Diagnostic Tools

Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion includes a handy Wi-Fi Diagnostic tool Read More…

DirectAccess and OCS / Lync Edge Services

Windows 7 DirectAccess is a great remote working technology, but services such as OCS and Lync are best accessed outside of the DA tunnel. This is configured using the NRPT to set exceptions and direct traffic to external Edge servers. Read More…

Building a Holodeck

The Verge recently visited Microsoft's Applied Sciences Labs to look at the innovations that may soon power the technology demonstrated in the Office labs Vision 2019 video. Read More…

I wish I was an Astronaut…

Fantastic time-lapse video from the International Space Station Read More…