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In a large corporate environment, the end-users do not usually have the rights to install just any application they download from the internet themselves. But how do you decide which applications are allowed to be installed and run and which aren’t? Today, I want to walk you through the application whitelisting basics, the most common…
The definitive list of everything you need to know about MSI packaging. With Millennials making up more than half of today’s workforce, companies can no longer play by the old rules of the Baby Boomer or early Gen X generations. Today’s employees aren’t coming into the same office, same desk, and same computer every day…
When it comes to picking a tool, make sure you pick the right one! Trying to decide on the right MSI packaging tool for your company is a bit like shopping for a new car but without the pushy car salespeople (at least we hope not for your sake, because no one likes pushy salespeople)…
Let’s just be honest for a second and come right out with it: No one likes to create app packaging documentation. Creating the documentation is probably the most boring part of app packaging an application! So oftentimes, product owners skip through the steps half-heartedly, rushing to get through it as fast as they can, or…
Don’t make these 5 crucial mistakes that could stall your BaU application management process! Last week, we published an interactive assessment called “Can We Guess Your Risk Level For Adopting Business-as-Usual?” from an application management perspective. Basically, we asked 12 questions and you pick the answer that best fits. At the end, we can predict…
Take this quiz to see just how safe your applications are! In the past year, I talked to a lot of enterprises IT pros about the challenges that most modern IT teams face today: flat budgets, headcount reductions or no additional hiring, having to do more work with fewer hands — all while modernizing the…
It’s time to get rid of the Windows Servicing headache. Remember the elation and expectations when Windows 95 was released over two decades ago? And the excitement and frustrations with subsequent releases like Windows 98, ME, and 8.1?
Migrations, sign-offs, and handovers can be a headache. Don’t let them hinder your plans. An OS migration can be such an overwhelmingly complex and huge project that it can become easy to lose sight of what happens when the migration is done. How will you gain end-user sign-off or train them on the new functionality?…
It’s time to end the confusion and help you simplify your IT projects through Windows 10 Deployment Rings. Much to the relief of many IT project managers and their project resources, Microsoft recently announced that it would align its Windows 10 Servicing upgrade cycle with release cycles of Office 365 and SCCM.
I can hardly believe that it has been almost two years since Windows 10 was officially released! Most enterprises have finished evaluating the new operating system and kicked off their migration efforts by now. But unlike previous Windows deployments where organizations had three to four years before the next upgrade cycle was due, Windows 10 (a.k.a.…