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03 August 2008
Do I have the latest BIOS installed? (And a cheap laptop repair)
For Hyper-V to operate correctly, it is strongly advised, and in many cases, required, to install the latest BIOS onto your hardware for hardware virtualization features to operate correctly. While some OEMs provide fantastic information, my experience Read More...
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10 October 2005
Get TechNet Plus for half price
Thought you'd like this one if you live in the UK at least. Check out this page on microsoft.com, where there is a huge pricing discount for TechNet Plus subscriptions. If you purchase TechNet Plus directly through that site (ie not through a partner) Read More...
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17 August 2005
Part 5: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - Exchange mailbox and Outlook Profile
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. The next stage in our infrastructure is to extend our infrastructure by building in one of the most important infrastructure applications - email. Our configuration uses Exchange 2003, and the Read More...
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10 August 2005
Windows Genuine Advantage
You may have noticed, if you've been downloading anything recently from microsoft.com, that with the exception of security updates, you now have to install an ActiveX control. Windows Genuine Advantage went live on 25th July after some 10 months of beta Read More...
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05 August 2005
IT Forum 2005 - Barcelona
The Microsoft IT Forum 2005 web-site is now live to take registrations. The agenda is being formulated now and will be going live in the next few weeks. This is a major event for IT Professionals in Europe (or even further in many cases) with many high-profile Read More...
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20 July 2005
Popup follow-on from yesterday
Well, there is another difference between the msgbox function and popup method as was pointed out to me by several people. Msgbox only displays the first 1024 characters of a dialog whereas popup displays a lot more (I haven't looked to see what the actual Read More...
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19 July 2005
How to automatically dismiss scripted dialogs boxes - alternative to msgbox function
I guess I've been doing a fair bit of scripting recently - admittedly nowhere near as much as I did back in my dev days, but there's always something you learn new. I don't even have a specific use for this, neither was I able to imagine a practical situation Read More...
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05 July 2005
Generic scripted weekly backup solution - your feedback results
Following last weeks post regarding the script I used to back up my home Exchange 2003 SP1 Server running under Virtual Server 2005 on a weekly full backup with daily differential backup, I've received upwards of 30 emails, all positive, thankfully!!! Read More...
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23 March 2005
Good news for popular people on MSN Messenger
I saw several threads on the Internet earlier this month regarding a change that increases the limits for the the number of contacts which can be present in your MSN Messenger contact list. The change is now official - a couple of days ago, the limit Read More...
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01 February 2005
MSN Search Launched
Kind of hard to miss the launch party. Well, as it happens I did :-) Even though I'd consciously seen Bill Gates plastered over the home page of both www.msn.com and www.msn.co.uk on-and-off all morning, it never dawned on me to read what the story might Read More...
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