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so there's a story over on the MS website about windows 7 faster starting times.... http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/jan10/01-25windows7profile.mspx?rss_fdn=Custom I completely agree - windows 7 starting times and "time to use-ability" are quite good - especially in comparison to vista.... however the tone of the article worries the hell out of me. "It gave me a really good…
Continue readingahhh i love thse videos.... i found "god is not great" heavy reading - and in my case at least, its just another point of view on the same core belief - that religion is fundamentally evil. But watching hitchens in action is just funny and heart-warming.... the 2nd part of this video compilation in…
Continue readingJust noticed this one over at the OCS blog https://www.testocsconnectivity.com/ these tools really do speed the testing process once implemented - and help track down issues faster... good stuff MS.
Continue readinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyH8f-bW-FY Every now and again i miss the days of 8 bit gaming....
Continue readingI've been running office 2010 beta for a few weeks now - and found it to be pretty good... with only minor bugs here and there. One of the cool things i didnt know was in outlook 2010 is the ability to connect to up to 15 mailboxes! Link to story on Bink Thats is…
Continue readingRecently we've dealt with a number of schools who have been moving to SCCM... so far, each school has used their "default" services provider to install SCCM.... for a few days up to a few weeks...with wildly varying degrees of failure.... from not even getting a primary installed to getting it installed, but having the…
Continue readingA while back i wrote about this patch which killed OCS... (which the OCS team have now fixed) I got an email today from one of my guys saying that it also killed USMT... sure enough, i just ran into the same thing.... The SMSTS.log reports Failed to import the client certificate store (0x80092024) OSDSMPClient…
Continue readingSo i moved our domain up to 2008 R2 domain and forest functional level - all so i could have the excitment of enabling AD recycle bin. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd392261(WS.10).aspx Enabling AD recycle bin - powershell or LDP... not the friendliest, but fair enough... But actually recovering the objects, LDP or powershell aswell... thats just not very…
Continue readingThis time an upgrade from exchange 2003... put it this way, it only took a few hours... it was that smooth.... and i actually bother to use the certificate wizard for the first time (all the other installs ive just installed the cert locally and assigned it, havent had to create new ones) - very…
Continue readingSo its been a week since i moved to exchange 2010 - and in turn started using exchange's built-in antiSPAM capability (well, it is in 2007, but i never used it) - primarily because most 3rd party anti-spam add-ons weren't 2010 ready at RTM (which is fair enough) Previously, i had always used 3rd party…
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