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Windows 11 release date and requirements

Glenn Bristol Imaging Best Practices, Microsoft Windows

Windows 11 hardware requirements solidified In this summer-ending episode, Brad and Aaron bid each other farewell – Brad is moving on to another position in the Windows app space, and Aaron will be continuing the Enterprise Dish podcast with another host at a time yet to be determined. I never spoke to Brad myself, but

6 Aug

Q&A: Maximizing your school’s COVID relief funds for IT

Heidi Flaig Imaging Best Practices, Microsoft Windows

How Schools can Leverage COVID Relief Funds for IT Software Using CARES Act funding to manage 1:1 student computers Managing a school’s IT strategy, security, and infrastructure is no walk in the park even in the most pedestrian of times – which makes tackling this through a pandemic something entirely herculean. Tell you something you don’t

28 May

The demise of Adobe Flash

Glenn Bristol Imaging Best Practices, Press Releases and News

Long live Flash It’s time for another Enterprise Dish, which Brad and Aaron begin with an oft-repeated, but now very real announcement: Flash is dead! Long live Flash: the Adobe plug-in that won the late ’90s/early ’00s internet with animations, prototypical viral memes, and shock sites to chill your bones. This technology was how rapid-fire

28 Jan

Tech Tie In: Windows 10X, F-350 engines, and snow days

Glenn Bristol Customers, Imaging Best Practices

Hello, World! It is a new year on the same planet, and there is a light at the end of the COVID tunnel. Windows10X: an OS for budget devices In this month’s Enterprise Dish episode, Aaron and Brad reconvened to discuss Windows 10X, which is looking less like a rumor and more like a fully-formed

8 Jan

The Permanent Pandemic People Predicament

Aaron Suzuki From the CEO, Imaging Best Practices

Previously published on VMblog.com. It’s hard to look too far into the future right now. The pandemic is dominating work, home, and everything in between. We’re all thinking about managing risk, watching the news for the next shoe to drop. Still, it’s easy to see that some elements of the pandemic will stay with us far into the future. From our

23 Nov

Windows 10 Sun Valley, Toughbooks, and Jingle Jangle

Glenn Bristol Customers, Imaging Best Practices, Microsoft Windows

It’s November 2020. The election is over (or over-adjacent), Washington State is heading back into COVID-19 lockdown, and on top of all the practical realities that this will entail for me and my family (from childcare and educational uncertainties to our canceled Thanksgiving plans), my mind is being pulled in a hundred directions at once;

5 Nov

Use Norton Ghost for what it is good at, backup.

Spencer Dunford Competitors, Customers, Imaging Best Practices

Updated November 5, 2020: This blog post was published years ago, but people are still finding and reading it, so we’ll keep it here. Although Norton Ghost is now gone, the main idea holds true for the other disk-cloning systems that replace it—namely, these cloning solutions may be just what you need for backup, but

23 Oct

The difference between file-based and sector-based imaging

Spencer Dunford Imaging Best Practices

Before choosing an imaging and deployment solution, you might want to take a peek under the hood. File-based imaging and sector-based imaging both have their uses. Understanding the differences can help you use the tools most efficiently.

15 May

5 requirements your imaging software needs to efficiently reimage computers

Heidi Flaig Imaging Best Practices

Reimaging computers is a crucial task for IT departments as this process maintains a secure, productive, and updated online environment. Without the right software to reimage computers, IT teams can spend countless hours perfecting their computer imaging strategy to avoid potential security failures and extended user downtime. If a complication arises, it can consume additional

12 Nov

Windows 7 end-of-life, are you ready?

Heidi Flaig Imaging Best Practices, Microsoft Windows

Windows 7 end-of-life in January 2020 is quickly approaching. This means there will be no more updates, including patches against the latest security threats, available for systems running on Windows 7. For enterprises who have not migrated to newer versions of Windows, it’s crunch time to begin a Windows 10 migration plan in order to