Tag Archives: Windows

Clients for Office Communications Server

A quick guide to the OCS clients available for Windows, Apple Mac, iPhone, Java phones (Nokia, Motorola) and Blackberry Read More…

Federating Windows 7 Search with SharePoint

Ian over at WSSDemo has put up some sample code for federating your Windows 7 Search with SharePoint. Given how quickly SharePoint is spreading throughout businesses I can see this being very useful indeed, especially as it includes file preview. Read More…

Virtualisation eLearning

With all the recent virtualisation launches from MS (App-V 4.5 and Hyper-V Server 2008) I've been doing a bit more reading on the subject over the last few days.  I've always used various flavours of VMWare in the past so I thought I'd better catch up with whats going on on the MS side of [...] Read More…

Apple Mac’s in Active Directory

I just found this pretty good video on the apple site describing - at a high level - Mac integration with Active Directory.  http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/activedir/apple/ For someone from a Windows background (like me) it's worth a look.  It's also interesting to see the difference in style between the Apple and MS.  Given the brand personas of [...] Read More…

Bye-bye Windows?

Having just been thinking about what a next generation Microsoft OS might be like, I do wonder if they would keep the Windows name.  It's served MS well for decades, but it brings with it a heap of baggage.  A shiny new name would help give the platform the fresh start it might need. (What [...] Read More…