Some of you will have seen my presentations and will have also seen the cool add-in that I use. If you haven’t heard of pptplex go find it: www.officelabs.com It will make presentations in powerpoint a whole lot less linear and more interactive! However...

This is something that is so easy to deploy and do that I just had to shout about it! Ok so the problem: Laptop/PC on site, something horrible and sticky spilt all over it….Hardware destroyed (or really any other scenario that results in a useless piece...

So I have been asked a few questions based around using SBS 08 with 2 NICs teamed together. In doing a little research this a ‘Hardware supported’ answer in the fact that the software will only see (and look for) one NIC and therefore there wont be a...

So a number of people have brought to my attention the licensing around SBS 08. So baring in mind that SBS is designed for small businesses where users are often changing, and often use temps, but don’t have an onsite IT guy to manage licenses, SBS 08...

Well Hello…….There are so many screenshots and blog posts out there that covering windows 7 would be overkill. So I’m going to simply give you to the msdn Win7 blog link: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/ I have to say apart from being very rapid in installing...

Tomorrow is an event in London where the one and only Nick King (Technical Product Manager) is flying over from the other side of the pond to give a presentation on the WESS gang. There will be all the usual content of a professional gathering, presentation...

As most of you aware there is migration documentation out there for going from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. Transition Pack Migration Guide The migration in a virtual environment is essentially the same as real world. However the things to remember...

Completely off topic I know, but I was bought a driving experience day for Christmas. Thought I would wait till summer for the good weather (along with EVERYONE else), so 8-12 weeks after booking it, I finally got to play with the super cool toys….Below...

Over the next month I will be part of the team that travels around the country visiting SBSC User groups with the aim of delivering training and readiness on WESS. More details can be found here .. Just to wet your appetites there will also be some...

Problem 1 getting SBS running in a test and dev environment…. The solution, using an 8Gb shuttle we set up SBS in a Virtual Machine on Windows Server 2008 (with hyper-V enabled). The set up of SBS is unbelievably simple, a complete guide all the way...

After the http://connect is run, the user has the option of selecting a local user profile to copy across. But what if there are more than one local user on that machine....IE a PA and Director. Will one be locked out and the other gain access to the...

So I attended the Misco Expo 2008, and the awards ceremony, where Microsoft picked up a Misco Star Award for "Best Software Vendor". It was a great event and was very interesting to hear peoples expectations of SBS 2008 and EBS 2008. Seems like a natural...

Ok.....So in a very cliché and well used manner I will start by firstly welcoming you to not only my first blog but also an inside view from my new career. I began at Microsoft just over 4 weeks ago, and have not stopped learning. It is the inevitable...

  After training (death by powerpoint) and learning paths I have now not only a direction, but also some goals too....already, WOW, I KNOW....plus did i mention that I get to attend a black tie dinner and hold the pod/stand for Windows Essential...