FIM 2010 has RTM'ed

i noticed when logged into technet downloads today that FIM 2010 has RTM'ed.... Eval is also available from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc872861.aspx

Surveys, surveys....

<rant> So it must be the time of year for Microsoft surveys again, filled out a few lately... Now just in case anyone within MS does care.... what partners actually want (these are specific to my experience and therefore are likely to be Australia specific), instead of the crap asked in surveys. (how do microsoft…

Now thats cool – a proper amount of storage!

Sick of crappy over-priced storage solutions? As am i... did a search and stumbled on this... http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ i dont need quite THAT much storage... but that is cool...

Exchange 2010 – SIS is gone

i hadn't read this anywhere else yet.... but on the exchange blog they go through why SIS has been removed aftering being part of exchange for many many years.... http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/02/22/454051.aspx

OCS 2007 R2 – archiving report

So, one of the major issues with OCS 2007 R2 archiving services is the lack of a built-in tool to actually view the data - not everyone has the inhouse skills to write an SQL query or nice little tool to view this data. I noticed over on the OCS blog, some of the OCS…

Classic....

Forefront TMG 2010 – internal upgrade

Well, i finally got around to replacing our internal Adexis ISA 2006 with Forefront TMG 2010 (threat management gateway - not a fan of that name....) very nice to be rid of the last Windows 2003 (production) box on the network... now just need OCS 2007 R2 to support 2008 R2, and we would also…

APPV 4.6 available

mmmm, finally, x64 support.... but at least its not an announcement, it's available from the technet site right now. http://blogs.technet.com/mdop/archive/2010/02/19/app-v-4-6-and-med-v-1-0-sp1-rc-are-here.aspx On releases - SCCM 2007 R3, was due in janurary.... now i hear its end of the calendar year! not sure whats happened there....

Bioshock 2 play

So i finished Bioshock 2 last night.... its a short game On the upside, it was fun - the gameplay itself is good, the weapons are fun and some of the effects are pretty cool. On the downside, it still feels like an expansion pack rather than a full game, the storyline was very average…

Outlook 2010 beta – odd issue

so it came to my attention today that some of my messages were getting big.... 880k in fact when sending an email with one line of text. The client that reported this to me is running sun one (yes, you heard right... and yes, they are looking at moving) so i thought it might be…