Is your organization ready for Windows 8.1? Part 3, Return of the Start Button and Boot to Desktop

With the right hardware and enough time to plan the Windows 8.1 deployment within your organization, it’s time to start looking at the many new Windows 8.1 features you might (or might not) want to take advantage of with your organization. One much anticipated feature of Windows 8.1 by Windows 8 users is the return … Continue reading "Is your organization ready for Windows 8.1? Part 3, Return of the Start Button and Boot to Desktop"

Is your organization ready for Windows 8.1? Part 2, The best hardware for the job

When your organization is running on PCs with Windows versions prior to Windows 8, you might want to look at new hardware to run Windows 8.1 on. While you can still run Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 on a 1GHz processor with 1GB RAM, the impact of running Windows 8 on underwhelming hardware to the … Continue reading "Is your organization ready for Windows 8.1? Part 2, The best hardware for the job"

KnowledgeBase: An update is available that improves management of weak certificate cryptographic algorithms in Windows

Last month, Microsoft has released KnowledgeBase article 2862966 An update is available that improves management of weak certificate cryptographic algorithms in Windows as a helping hand to administrators to indicate and/or eradicate the use of weak cryptographic algorithms in their networking environments.

Pictures of my Educational Session at the Hague University

In my job at OGD, I get to do fun stuff. One of the interesting things that came across recently was the invitation to provide an educational session at one of the Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences, the Haagse Hogeschool, this Monday. When we were negotiating the session, the preference was around Windows 8. This … Continue reading "Pictures of my Educational Session at the Hague University"