Simon May
Client and cloud
Large Hyper-V install you say?
I went along to the excellent vBeers event in London a few nights ago – one of the downsides of...
Author: Si May Date: 10/13/2010
PDC10 Live in Reading UK October 28th and 29th
Oh yes it’s coming! The Professional Developers Conference 2010 is on it’s way and you can be...
Author: Si May Date: 10/12/2010
Desktop Security Made Easy and Free
There are basically three basic aspects to securing your Windows 7 desktop, all are possible for...
Author: Si May Date: 10/11/2010
What concerns IT Pros about moving applications Azure?
I’ve just come off of a really interesting call and this question is floating around in my...
Author: Si May Date: 10/06/2010
Servicing Virtual Machines Offline
Virtual Machines are excellent routes to testing and are an integral part of building a private...
Author: Si May Date: 10/06/2010
BPOS Mail Box Migration with PowerShell
I just came across this interesting video about how to migrate mailboxes to BPOS using PowerShell...
Author: Si May Date: 10/06/2010
Sharing Presentations with Office Web Apps
I created this presentation for a briefing session that I did recently and I didn’t get to run...
Author: Si May Date: 10/05/2010
How to migrate from IE6 to IE8
A couple of days ago I blogged about how you shouldn’t be slowing down your migration plans to wait...
Author: Si May Date: 09/29/2010
A Steady State for PCs that don’t change
There are times when you don’t want things to change, things are setup just so and those pesky users...
Author: Si May Date: 09/28/2010
Springboard tour UK–Free deployment training for Win7 and Office 2010
Springboard is the place to find great resources for Windows 7 and Office 2010 deployment (as well...
Author: Si May Date: 09/27/2010
IT Pros and IE9 what should you do
There’s a lot going on with Internet Explorer at the moment with the IE9 Beta having just launched...
Author: Si May Date: 09/22/2010
Free learning
XP mode is one of the tools in your armoury for deploying Windows 7 if you want to learn more about...
Author: Si May Date: 09/21/2010
How we (Microsoft) are using Azure for internal apps
One of things I love about working for Microsoft is that we use our own stuff, we really trust, we...
Author: Si May Date: 09/20/2010
Weekly blog wrap up 13th September to 19th September
Last week was good, we released this IE9 Beta thing which people like quite a lot – me...
Author: Si May Date: 09/20/2010
Reasons to deploy Silverlight #7
Author: Si May Date: 09/17/2010
What Kind of Cloud are You? Huh? Hey? Yeah you.
I like this, tickles my funny bone in a way that only stuff for us by us stuff can. We’ve got...
Author: Si May Date: 09/16/2010
Reasons to deploy Silverlight #6
Author: Si May Date: 09/16/2010
Get to know IE9 in one minute
Ok, nine minutes but in nice one minute bite sized chunks of video loveliness. Start here and...
Author: Si May Date: 09/15/2010
Twitter.com is an IE9 Web Application and so is Facebook (#IE9)
It seems the good folks @twitter have jumped out of the starting blocks and enhanced twitter.com to...
Author: Si May Date: 09/15/2010
Ed Bott’s on a mission to rid us of XP
I think Ed Bott’s a superb Windows advocate, be it his excellent books or his ZDnet articles or his...
Author: Si May Date: 09/15/2010
Reasons to deploy Silverlight #5
Author: Si May Date: 09/15/2010
Reasons to deploy Silverlight #4
Author: Si May Date: 09/14/2010
Signature Synchronisation
A couple of days ago I was a partner event in Manchester and I was asked a BPOS question that...
Author: Si May Date: 09/13/2010
Weekly Blog Wrap Up September 4th to 11th
Boy do we have some great stuff coming up for you over the next week but before we get into this...
Author: Si May Date: 09/13/2010
Reasons to deploy Silverlight #3
Author: Si May Date: 09/13/2010
Reasons to deploy Silverlight #2
Author: Si May Date: 09/10/2010
Windows Intune install in under 4 minutes
A couple of days ago I gave one of our customers a tour of Windows Intune and they were blown away...
Author: Si May Date: 09/09/2010
Reasons to deploy Silverlight #1
I was thinking about reasons that organisations need to deploy Silverlight and thought I’d share my...
Author: Si May Date: 09/09/2010
What’s it like taking a Microsoft exam
Some folks get stressed to high heaven by the thought of taking exams and they hate the idea of...
Author: Si May Date: 09/08/2010
The argument for Silverlight as part of your corporate optimized desktop
What do you deploy to your people as part of your corporate standard desktop? Windows 7 – yep...
Author: Si May Date: 09/07/2010
Weekly blog wrap up August 23rd to 29th
Well that was a fun week for me, you might not have realised it but I wasn’t in the office I was...
Author: Si May Date: 08/31/2010
Why Google is not a business platform
Danny Burlage of BPOS Rocks wrote this fantastic article on why Google is not fit for business –...
Author: Si May Date: 08/27/2010
Thoughts on OpsMgr: SCOM Operators Basics SuperFlow
Last week this popped up in my twitter feed and I really think it’s worth of some link love, so...
Author: Si May Date: 08/27/2010
Excellent paper on IE6 compatibility with Windows 7
I was just browsing around our internal sites and found this excellent white paper on Solutions for...
Author: Si May Date: 08/26/2010
Breaking: IT Pros have a future with the cloud
Ok it might not be breaking news but it sometimes feels like it. The cloud is here to stay and...
Author: Si May Date: 08/25/2010
Little things in Windows 7 still make me smile
I’ve been using Windows 7 for almost 18 months now and the little things still make me very...
Author: Si May Date: 08/24/2010
Another not-very-revolutionary feature: Gmail does “undo send”
Gmail’s undo send feature is being talked up all over the web right now. Why. It’s...
Author: Si May Date: 08/23/2010
Microsoft Online Services Setup Accelerator
One of the best things about BPOS and Exchange Online is how simple it is to setup and what makes it...
Author: Si May Date: 08/23/2010
Weekly blog roundup 16th to 20th August
This week my boss caught me enjoying too many Chai Tea lattes (above). You might be interested...
Author: Si May Date: 08/20/2010
Multiple email addresses and BPOS Exchange Online
Over the past week I’ve been asking people on twitter to talk to me about their experiences with...
Author: Si May Date: 08/18/2010
Business Productivity Online Standard Suite Deployment Guide
If you’re looking for help deploying BPOS and or Exchange Online then look no further, this...
Author: Si May Date: 08/17/2010
Simons Weekly Wrap-up August 9th to 14th
Eek I totally forgot to post the wrap up for last week, here we go 6 Steps to real enterprise email...
Author: Si May Date: 08/16/2010
Manually configure Outlook 2010 for Exchange Online (BPOS)
I live in Outlook, I think most people probably do too, so having recently moved the email for my...
Author: Si May Date: 08/16/2010
6 Steps to real enterprise email with BPOS
I’m just starting to learn my way around BPOS so I thought I’d move all the mail for my domain,...
Author: Si May Date: 08/13/2010
Tech·Ed 2010 is coming #TEE10
I’m pretty psyched to be going to my first ever Tech·Ed and having checked out the behind the scenes...
Author: Si May Date: 08/13/2010