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Online banking, shopping from your armchair, and computer-initiated loans are leaving people more vulnerable to theft. Traenk discloses a new series in this blog.
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Day 17 of #17DaysofGiveaways - Microsoft Week
This is it – Day 17 of the 17 Days of Giveaways. For our final giveaway, three winners will each receive a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed eBook by Kerrie Meyler, Byron Holt, Marcus Oh, Jason Sandys, and Greg Ramsey. This team of experts offers step-by-step coverage of related topics in every feature area, organized to help IT professionals rapidly optimize Configuration Manager 2012 for their requirements, and then deploy and use it successfully. The authors begin by introducing Configuration Manager 2012 and its goals, and explaining how it fits into the broader System Center product suite. Next, they fully address planning, design, and implementation. Finally, they systematically cover each of Configuration Manager 2012's most important feature sets, addressing issues ranging from configuration management to software distribution. Readers will learn how to use Configuration Manager 2012's user-centric capabilities to provide anytime/anywhere services and software, and to strengthen both control and compliance. The first book on Configuration Manager 2012, System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Unleashed joins Sams' market-leading series of books on Microsoft's System Center product suite: books that have achieved go-to status amongst IT implementers and administrators worldwide.
InformIT's 17 Days of Giveaways
Get ready for a month full of giveaways. From July 9 through the end of the month, InformIT will be having 17 days of giveaways. Each week has a theme to make sure that there’s something YOU will be excited to win!
Coming back, coming back home
After a year spent 'roughing it' with alternate vendor technologies, Traenk is returning to his Microsoft home.
I like ThinApp as a Way to Contain Stupid App Installations
Installing applications on Windows is difficult. Older apps make that difficulty painful.
VMware's Thinapp gives Big Benefits
Need to sandbox existing parts of your technical infrastructure? ThinApp offers interesting possibilities...
There are no secrets II
After the discussion on client configurations betraying your infrastructure choices, my talk with Sim Pul Simon (my corrected spelling) turned to other server examples.
How Long?
John is in shock as the Apple Juggernaut rolls forward. How long before Win Mobile gets the respect it deserves?
Windows 7 Feature Focus: Cutting Through the Myths About XP Mode
Windows 7's XP Mode (aka Virtual Windows XP) is one of the most misunderstood options available for Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions. Go beyond the myths and get the FAQs you need to find out if XP Mode is right for you.
It's Here; Put Away Your Pre-Conceptions on What an OS Must Be: Part IV
Graphical User Interfaces were important. So was cost control. Just what must an OS be?
It's Here; Put Away Your Pre-Conceptions on What an OS Must Be: Part V
It's been a long while since you had a chance to be excited about a new version of an 'old' OS. Now is your chance.
