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Confessions of a Microsoft Consultant

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Daniel Oxley is an Infrastucture Consultant working for Microsoft Consulting Services in Madrid, Spain. He specialises, amongst other things, in large-scale deployments of Microsoft Windows using technologies such as BDD2007 and the Microsoft Deployment

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2010 6

  1. GPS, but without GPS
  2. Virtual PC Just Became More Accessible
  3. Smartcard Needing Drivers In Order To Be Smart
  4. Family IT Nirvana
  5. Incorrectly speculating about my friend 0xc000000f
  6. Wasted Space, Begone!

2009 33

  1. Slimming Down Office Documents
  2. Converting Windows Error Codes To Something More Friendly
  3. Ooops, that’s not right…
  4. Anti-Virus Software, That's Free!
  5. Best Practices for Windows 7 Migrations Using Microsoft Application Virtualization
  6. Putting iexplore.exe on a diet
  7. Benchmarking Windows 7
  8. Application Compatibility List for Windows 7
  9. Creating Your Own Search Provider in Internet Explorer
  10. Laptop Hunters and Apple
  11. Quicker Access to Windows 7 Virtual PC settings
  12. Saving The World, Printer Ink First
  13. PowerShell Script ExecutionPolicy
  14. He-Man on YouTube
  15. Application Installs, be gone!
  16. Green IT (with a difference)
  17. IKEA-fying my computer
  18. Yes, I am still alive...!
  19. Safely setting autologon for Windows
  20. Getting inside information about Hyper-V
  21. Windows Server 2008 doesn’t have to ignore the MBSA if you don’t want it to
  22. Office 2003 being put to bed
  23. VBS Functions
  24. Faster Creation of Virtual Machines
  25. Yet Another Core Configurator
  26. Network Issues prevent certain Installations (otherwise known as 0xc000000f)
  27. Kicking the tyres
  28. Free Gears of War 2 Maps
  29. Telefonica España vs XBOX LIVE
  30. Pink computing
  31. Not quite a perfect install of Win2K8 R2
  32. Just fix it for me please…
  33. Restarting the Microsoft File Transfer Manager

2008 51

  1. Translating TechNet instantly
  2. Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008
  3. Project Highlander
  4. Windows Vista Service Pack 2
  5. Self-writing code
  6. A bigger Sky
  7. Job/Life/Reputation protector 2.0
  8. A good and bad end to the Formula 1 season
  9. Self-healing NTFS
  10. Hyper-V going from strength to strength
  11. Decorating Windows Explorer
  12. Getting your own personal translation service
  13. HTAMount – Simplifying the mounting of Hyper-V VHD files to your computer
  14. Windows Vista, please can you stop changing the view of my folders without asking me?
  15. Mark Russinovich presents...
  16. Letting Hyper-V get some sleep
  17. Portable Applications with Live Mesh
  18. Just leave me alone! (for another 6 minutes and 52 seconds anyway)
  19. Notepad - The preferred tool of the I.T. Professional
  20. Photo sharing - The Next Generation
  21. Doesn't this thing go any faster?
  22. Booting up the I.T. part of my brain
  23. The final nail in VMWare's coffin?
  24. Closing time for the bar
  25. Disconnecting Hyper-V
  26. Hyper-V causing a negative effect on...
  27. VMWare working great on my computer
  28. Hyper-V on the side
  29. Getting my bits in a twist
  30. Uninstalling the uninstall
  31. SkyDrive - making the sky better
  32. Unravelling the Office Ribbon
  33. Group Policy migration, without the headache
  34. Trigger happy events
  35. Dude, where's my GUI?
  36. I want that text, and I want it now!
  37. Everything you ever wanted to know about Internet Explorer 8 (but were afraid to ask)
  38. Server Unleashed - "more than meets the eye"
  39. Windows Live Installer - without the installer??!?!?
  40. Rap to Silverlight
  41. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Virtual 'Roundtable'
  42. Insomnia-causing Hyper-V
  43. Hyper-V - Hooray!
  44. In the immortal words of Homer, "Doh!"
  45. Windows 2008 Certification
  46. Gulp! Did I really just send that to the entire company...?
  47. Data theft and why are we not doing anything about it?
  48. Free Office 2007 training!
  49. Windows Update - Why 3 am? & Help! I can't update anymore!
  50. Bill Gates' Last Day
  51. Updating your deployment point programmatically

2007 8

  1. Fallout from Virtual Server vs VMware
  2. Editing the registry of your WIM without having to recapture
  3. 5 Vista Adoption "Gotchas" and how to get beyond them
  4. Virtualisation - Why would you not choose Microsoft Virtual Server..?
  5. Creating a WIM the quick way...
  6. Switching Windows Components on and off
  7. Junction points with network drives
  8. All spaced out