On June 5-6, the Pacific IT Pros user group is hosting their TechDays San Francisco event. There is still time to register, and for 2 days of training from recognized speakers (and me too) the price is a bargain. Head over to http://techdays.org and register today. Below is a summary of the sessions I will … Continue reading Presenting at TechDays San Francisco only two weeks away
Category: Windows 8
If you're running Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2, have enabled SSL (the default I think) and now have Windows 8.1 Update clients, you'll find that those clients are unable to connect to the WSUS server to check for updates. I am writing this blog post to collect all symptoms and all … Continue reading Windows 8.1 Update Cannot Connect to SSL-Enabled WSUS 3 SP 2
As a follow-up to my blog series on Windows 8 (1 | 2 | 3), I felt compelled to write something about Windows RT. Just like Windows 8, Windows RT is receiving lots of press, mostly around how it's a commercial failure. Apparently, Microsoft has sold "only" about 1 million Surface RTs and I can … Continue reading My Windows RT Tablet Experience
In this third and final post in my Windows 8 experience series, I am thinking about the lack of compelling new features in the OS and some of the positive aspects of Microsoft's latest flagship OS release. If you need to review, the first part addressed the Start menu, the second part the Tablet PC … Continue reading My Thoughts on Windows 8: Part III
This is the second blog post with my thoughts about Windows 8. This time, I have some gripes about the Tablet PC Input Panel which leads to concerns about the integration of the Modern UI with the desktop UI. In the first post, I discussed the Start Menu. In the last part, I am coming … Continue reading My Thoughts on Windows 8: Part II
Note: This blog post became so long, I've decided to break it up into several installments. Here is the first one, where I discuss changes that were made to how search works in the start menu. The second part focuses on the Tablet PC Input Panel and general UI issues. The third part deals with … Continue reading My Thoughts on Windows 8: Part I
Sven Aelterman 