Monthly Archives: June 2009

Qualcomm WWAN Device on Windows 7

By sduncan | Published: June 22, 2009
HP Elitebook 6930p and 2530p notebooks are standard models that are purchased when a Data#3 user orders a new notebook. Generally speaking we had very little trouble sorting out drivers to support Windows 7 on these devices; until it came to the onboard Qualcomm Wireless WAN device.  What a nightmare. Luckily for us, we aren’t the [...]
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SCCM 2007 for Data#3 (the customer)…

By sduncan | Published: June 9, 2009
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 is always my tool of choice for creating and deploying Windows SOEs. I’ll discuss the reasons for that in another post at another time, but for now my problem is that Data#3 (the customer) does not yet have SCCM 2007 deployed internally. Now is the perfect opportunity to do something [...]
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Windows 7 and Network Printing

By sduncan | Published: June 1, 2009
During some early smoke testing, we had mostly good results when it came to connecting and printing to network printers. The print servers at Data#3 are still running Windows Server 2003 (x86). All shared printers are configured with Vista drivers that worked just fine; at least they did for our 32 bit Windows 7 build. [...]
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