Join Tim Vander Kooi and Microsoft Senior Product Manager A.J. Smith as they continue the conversation about Windows 7 deployment and management. A.J. shows us the awesome capabilities that Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) currently makes …

Join Tim Vander Kooi and Microsoft employee Brad McCabe as they discuss and demonstrate many of the features and tools that you can use to tailor your Windows environment to meet your organization’s needs. From Group Policy to management in the cloud (Wi

When you’re developing an application, it’s important to consider where and how an end user will interact with the application. According to Gartner, phones will be the most common web access device by 2013. Attend this webcast to learn how—with just…

Talk TechNet is all about discussing topics and trends in the world of IT Professionals.  In this show we’ll have guest Justin Rodino. Justin is a Microsoft Technology Solutions PM and former Microsoft Deployment MVP. Call in and join us for what pr…

Today’s session we’ll look at some of the new features of User State Migration Tool (USMT) 4.0 including the Hard-link Migration Store, improved space estimation and integration with SCCM and MDT.  We’ll drill down into a detailed discussion of …

In part 4 of this series we’ll drill down in the Hard-link Migration option, one of the most compelling new features of USMT.  We’ll look at why it greatly enhances the performance of a migration and finally we’ll see how to use the Scanstate a…

Before we take a look at the two scenarios, Refresh Computer and Replace Computer, we’ll review the different types of migration stores available.   We’ll look at the migration xml files and show how we can do some simple customizations.

One of great new features of the USMT 4.0 is the ability to perform Offline User State Capture.  We’ll discuss both offline options available, Windows PE and windows.old directory.  We will cover when you would use this feature and what it actually…

In this session I’ll review the benefits and limitations of the USMT 4.0.  I’ll look at what versions of the Windows are supported for migration as well as what different options for user state migration are available for small, medium and large b…

The combination of Windows 7 and Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway can help you accomplish key business goals, including BYOPC (bring your own PC) initiatives. See how you can roll out Windows 7 and DirectAccess to achieve both your business goa