Vista Squad

July 2008 - Posts

• Project VistaSquad

  Well this might not be one of my best ideas to date but here goes! Over a few pints down my local, chatting with friends, actually listening to them whinnying on about Windows Vista's pros and cons, their main grippes seemed to always fall back on the Read More... Posted Saturday, July 26, 2008 1:11 PM by Scott Belton | 0 Comments Filed under: Welcome, Hardware & Driver Issues, green, environment

• Windows PE & Microsoft's Malware Removal Starter Kit

  I’ve recently been playing with the Windows PE boot environment and found a really good collection of information and free guides from Microsoft. So I thought I would give some of the ideas a go, I have followed the Malware Removal Starter Kit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/disasterrecovery/malware/default.mspx Read More... Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:48 PM by Scott Belton | 0 Comments Filed under: Deployment

• The Fellowship of the Ring Photos

  I've just posted the photos for our last meeting held on the 16th July. Apologies for the quality they were taken using a XDA II phone, main camera is still away being fixed after dropping it. Read More... Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 3:22 AM by Scott Belton | 0 Comments Filed under: events

• The Fellowship of The Ring Evening Event

  What a great evening two fantastic presentations, and what a fantastic turn out from over 100 sign ups to well over fifty people turning up with a few more IT Pros than normal, (come on guys and girls we really need a good showing way to many developers!) Read More... Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:09 AM by Scott Belton | 1 Comments

• The Fellowship of the Ring

  Wow outstanding over 94 places taken up for tonight’s meeting. Good work all! That’s fantastic I look forward to meeting some new faces as well as seeing the familiar ones. Hopefully we have a few more IT Pro's tonight so we can finally give the Dev. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:16 AM by Scott Belton | 0 Comments Filed under: events

• Microsoft Press Shop

  Well worth checking out at the moment if your after any books etc as they have a load of deals on. i.e Windows Vista Resource Kit 2nd Edition at a discount of 32% of retail price http://www.microsoft-press.co.uk/scripts/product.asp?ref=880178 Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:11 AM by Scott Belton | 0 Comments

• Server 2008 Website

  Has anyone else checked out the new website its stunning! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/serverunleashed/default.html Read More... Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 9:19 AM by Scott Belton | 3 Comments Filed under: Server 2008

• Going Green

  Well I must say this seems to be the latest buzz word, everyone seems to be cashing in, almost as good as only 3% fat, sugar free etc only when you read the fine print do you notice that they have been very crafty in their names and discriptions. So just Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:47 AM by Scott Belton | 0 Comments Filed under: green, environment

• Date for your Diary

  Microsoft are holding a free event at thier London office on 17th July 2008 Simplifying Your Route to Windows Vista Deployment Aimed squarely at your companies Decision Makers with responsibility for Microsoft and/or Desktop Infrastructure. Microsoft Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 6:17 AM by Scott Belton | 0 Comments Filed under: events, Microsoft events, Deployment