Posts Tagged ‘windows 8’

I’m taking a break from Lync blogging to address this…situation I’m in. So, as the title states, my contract is up and its time to run through the mobile debate once again.  If there is stress in my life right now, it isn’t the consulting work or raising 2 boys who are destined to destroy my […]

This article was pointed out to me by a colleague, and I found it a pretty compelling read:  How Microsoft helped this bar figure out that vodka was costing it a fortune. Of particular interest to me is the Natural Q&A feature, which is mentioned prominently. Now, my time in the data warehousing trenches tempers my […]

So, have you heard about Power BI yet?  The whiz-bang new cloud-centric BI front end tool from Microsoft?  Well, this video from the 2013 WPC breaks down the story — in a very entertaining manner…  So, having watched, let’s assume we all remember Mariah’s chart-toppers and instead review the greatest hits of the Power BI […]

Over on the Perficient Healthcare IT blog, my colleague Jamie Churchill had a great post this morning around the tablet battle in healthcare. From her blog post, which you can read here, Jamie shares: I came across an article this morning about the growing trend of doctors using tablets in healthcare – specifically the Microsoft […]

Microsoft came out with Windows  Intune Wave D not to long ago, and now are alreay touting a new version, I am assuming it will be E or Version 5. From what I have been seeing, this iteration is part of a larger set of product updates that are coming through the end of the year. System Center R2, […]

Well I keep scratching my head on this, and still trying to figure out why Microsoft has removed the feature of adding a password to Zip files. I have seen articles stating the password encrypting was not strong and could be easily hacked.  So I guess instead of improving this issue they decided to just remove the […]

If you have a Windows Intune environment and are moving to Office 365, Intune will make this move a lot easier on getting the client machines ready. You can use Windows Intune to run reports, to gather information on machines in your current environment, and to verify software requirements that are needed before deployment. Then you […]

Remote Assistance is a great feature in Windows Intune; it’s a feature that a lot of companies are excited about. A user can go to the self-service portal and choose to allow a service technician to access their machine. Sounds great, unless you run Windows 8. Microsoft Intune D no longer supports Windows 8 Remote Assistance. However, it still supports […]

With the latest release of Intune D, you now have the option to use Direct Management, or Active Sync for connecting mobile devices they both have benefits. Direct Management takes it a step further, and give you control over MDM and application management. Direct Managing takes you beyond policies and connecting your devices to exchange environments […]

Being a frequent user of beta software, I often have to stumble through discovering things the hard way. Last fall when I moved from the Release Preview of Windows 8 to the final product on my Samsung Series 7 slate, I selected the “Keep Nothing” option during the install and was surprised to find when […]

Bitlocker has been around for sometime, and with most Microsoft products gets better with versions. There has been some really good improvements and features added to the Server 2012, Windows 8 platforms. Bitlocker Provisioning Windows 8 is now deployable to an encrypted state during installation prior to calling setup. Used Disk Space Only Encryption BitLocker […]

As I recently started using Windows 8 for my day to day desktop, I ran across an issue using my Cisco VPN Client that I can see affecting many users based on the significant number of customers we have requiring the use of Cisco VPN Clients. In my particular case I am running version 5.0.07.0440 […]