The new age of IT Operations

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:20:34 +0000

When I started in tech, the world was MS-DOS based, with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups if you were lucky. Word Perfect ruled the typing pool and dot matrix line printers sang in the background. There was no plug and play. There was config.sys and autoexec.bat. Token ring and IPX/SPX.

I promise I won�t tell you to get off my lawn.

And then, our tech world changed. Windows NT brought with it the registry. TCP/IP. Ethernet. Active Directory. So many new things to learn that fundamentally changed our technology infrastructure.

Office 2019 moves to Click to Run, no MSI

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:28:19 +0000

There�s a buzz in my technical world this morning with the announcement that Office 2019 will not be available as MSI files, but will only be a Click to Run (C2R) product.

If that went right over your head, you may not be an IT Pro, and you can ignore the rest of this message.

If that has you breaking out in a cold sweat, let me clear up some confusion about the difference between MSI and C2R.

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The new age of IT Operations

Office 2019 moves to Click to Run, no MSI