Apple Mac’s in the Enterprise – IBM’s take

Working for a company that does significant amounts of design work, being a ‘Microsoft house’ can cause our users some headaches.  Although the design guys all love their mac’s, as an IT group traditionally it’s been hard for us support them and integrate them into the rest of our environment.  There are plenty of aspects […]

LCS Public IM Connectivity

Here at work we’ve just setup Public IM Connectivity (PIC) on our Live Communications Server setup.  Although it’s not my project I’ve been slightly involved as I designed the original setup here a few years ago. The good news is that it all seems to work quite well, you can’t quite do everything you could […]

Group Policy Preferences

Back in the day I used to look after big desktop deployments both here at Atkins and a few other places.  Managing large numbers of desktops is always a problem.  There’s no doubt that managed desktops are A Good Thing(TM), but the tools available to do the job were always a bit harsh on either […]

Dashwire – Mobile Synchronisation

Spotted a nice new service over over on Jason Langridge’s Blog.  Dashwire syncs Windows Mobile (and soon Symbian apparently) phones and PDA’s with a web service.  I’ve only just signed up but it looks pretty cool.  It runs a client on the device that syncs all your basic phone info (contacts, bookmarks, SMS’s etc) as […]

HP Does Cloud Infrastructure

Seeing as I’m involved in getting a new Data Centre at the moment this post over on ZDnet could my eye.  Looks like HP is to target a ‘data centre as a service’ product at enterprise customers.  I’ve heard bits about this for a few years now – HP account managers will bore you silly […]