NVIDIA streamed a long event last night as part of their Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2015 announcements. NVIDIA announced an expansion to their SHIELD line of gaming hardware and the commercial availability of their GRID service. NVIDIA has had their SHIELD portable and SHIELD tablet out for a couple of years now and with last night's announcement, they are adding an … [Read more...]
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 Update 1 Preview released
Windows Server 2016 may have slipped to release in calendar year 2016 but the rest of Microsoft's supporting infrastructure is still making progress. Microsoft has released a preview to MDT 2013 Update 1. This update will be required in order to use Microsoft's free Solution Accelerator imaging process with Windows 10. The Preview should not be used in production … [Read more...]
HTC One (M9), Samsung Galaxy S6 and other announcements from MWC 2015
With Mobile World Congress 2015, this week is already filled with announcements in the mobile realm. The Samsung Galaxy S 6 is the latest flagship device for the company. It was also introduced with a sibling device, the Galaxy S 6 Edge. The two phones have very similar internal specs and the Edge expands upon the S 5 Edge by having two rounded screen edges, which could … [Read more...]
FCC passes Net Neutrality, reclassifies ISPs as Title II
The FCC voted on the topic of Net Neutrality today and passed strong rules to pass the open Internet. They also pushed Title II to reclassify ISPs as utilities and protect access similar to water and electricity. You can view a 5-page document from the FCC detailing the results of today's meeting and vote. The new rules include: No blocking of content, applications, … [Read more...]
Converting VMware View GPO adm templates to .admx files
Here's one that recently had me scratching my head. I was not confused by the technical complexity of the process but more that it had to be done at all. VMware provides a few Group Policy administrative templates to configure the settings of the View agent and other related components. Unfortunately, the templates are in the old Server 2003 .adm format and not in the modern … [Read more...]




