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GPO, KMS and Certificate Servers.

By ksmith | Published: September 2, 2009
I am currently blogging about my Windows 7 Deployment experience. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Some of these services can run on the one server. Group Policy Objects (GPOs). This allows an administrator to control aspects of the workstations and servers in a Domain. Active Directory (A/D) [...]
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Dev – Test – Pilot – Train – Prod

By ksmith | Published: May 15, 2009
The software lifecycle process is too large to discuss here. I will only touch on some aspects. The Software_development_process and Software_development_methodology are a good places to start understanding how software development happens. Software_testing  gives a good explanation of testing. Organizations often run three or four different environments for software development. Development is where developers make and change software. Testing is [...]
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Introduction

By ksmith | Published: May 11, 2009
Hi, You may ask, who is Keith Smith? Well, I’ve had the pleasure of working directly in the Information Technology (IT) industry since 1996 with the last 3 years at Data#3. Mostly installing Microsoft products at customers sites. Work started with an Electrical Apprentice and then studying Computer Science part time at Uni. Later, MCSEs in [...]
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