I have a new job. As of the 1st September, I am going to be working for a university in central London as a “Windows Specialist”. If I’m entirely honest, I’m not entirely sure what my day to day duties are going to be but I have inferred that it’s going to involve helping to …
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Building, Deploying and Automatically Configuring a Mac Image Using SCCM and Parallels SCCM Agent
I touched briefly on using the Parallels Management Agent to build Macs in my overview article but I thought it might be a good idea to go through the entire process that I use when I have to create an image for a Mac, getting the image deployed and getting the Mac configured once the image is on there. At …
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Kindness of Strangers
So, I was out cycling this evening. I decided to take my bike up to Someries Castle because I’ve driven past the brown sign pointing at it on my way to work every day for the last two years and I was curious to see what, exactly, was there. The answer is not very much but I digress. …
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Me – A Progress Report
It’s been a month or thereabouts since I made the post about trying to get healthier. This is how it’s gone so far: So, lets start with the bits where I’ve been reasonably good. In the space of a month, I have biked about 50 miles, been swimming once and swam about 600m, I have …
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Me
Over the last few years, I have had… issues… with my weight. I have never been morbidly obese but I have been bigger and heavier than I’d like to be. A few years ago, I lost a substantial amount of weight for reasons that I eventually put down to stress; I was in a job …
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The Grand(ish) Experiment – The Latest
Well, I’m no longer using the Venue as my daily driver. I liked the tablet and it proved itself perfectly capable of handling my workload. However, it’s now time for some the intended recipients of these things to try them out and see how they get on with them. To that end, I have given …
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DCM Script – Checking Windows Activation Status
My last script was, out of necessity, a rather laborious one. Using a VBScript to check a status, generating a file from its output, reading files, creating objects and properties etc. Luckily enough, checking Windows activations (and checking Office activations on Windows 8.1) is considerably easier. There is a WMI class called SoftwareLicensingProduct which is where Windows just happens …
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The Grand(ish) Experiement – Two Weeks In
It’s been two weeks since I started using the Dell tablet in anger. You may be wondering where the promised updates have gone. Well, here’s one. I think that the biggest question that I needed to answer was “Can one of these tablets cope as my primary workstation?”. The answer to that is an unequivocal …
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The Grand(ish) Experiment – 1 Day In
Just a quick post here. The docking stations and cables for the Dell Venues arrived today and I wanted to post my first impressions. In terms of the hardware, it is surprisingly solid. It’s very weighty and feels like a quality piece of kit. Docking the tablet is easy, it goes smoothly in and out …
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The Grand(ish) Experiment
There has been a lot of discussion at work recently about the future and how we’re going to embrace it. Specifically, a lot of the discussion has been around tablet computers and how the college is going to start using them. There are a lot of people who hear the word “Tablet” and think “iPad”. …
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