Working With Microsoft
November 7, 2023As part of our ongoing process improvement at Readiness, we run through our successes and failures. Last year we delivered…Windows 11 Support for Compression Extensions: A Moral Imperative
October 31, 2023One of the topics that I was fortunate to study during my stay in Japan was the concept of Kaizan.…Microsoft’s Removal of VB Script is a Big Deal
October 12, 2023Microsoft is planning to remove support (deprecate) for VB Script in future versions of Windows. This is a big deal…Private .NET Installations: A Vulnerability Trap Door
August 25, 2023As part of an ongoing security in partnership with Microsoft Readiness is working on application installation focused security issues. Readiness…MSI Installer Errors – The End of an Error (a)
March 10, 2023Going back to the early days of Windows Installer, packaging (or scripting as it was called then) was based on…Application Installations: An Ever-Growing Story
February 13, 2023One of the most interesting things about managing large application portfolios is that you get a chance to see how…Application Readiness and Modern Application Management
January 24, 2023I have been fielding several questions on application packaging over the past few weeks and they have merged into several…Microsoft Desktop Analytics: What’s next?
August 3, 2022Microsoft's Desktop Analytics was one of the core pillars of Microsoft migration "facilitation" effort where tools and tool-kits where employed…What is the hardest part of application packaging? It’s not what you think
July 25, 2022The application packaging process is what can be best described as a series of concurrent technical IT processes required to…Microsoft Managed Desktops: The road to success?
July 20, 2022One of the patterns emerging from Microsoft today is what appears to be a strategic shift in thinking about their…