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Friday, June 01, 2007 11:31 AM

Powershell - videos and utilities

The Channel9 guys have posted an interesting video where the Powershell team discuss the goals of Powershell, where it is going in the future, and showing off the environment in action - check it out at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=309510
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:27 PM

New Intellimouse feature with latest Vista drivers

If you install the latest Vista drivers for Intellipoint mice you get a nifty feature. The drivers are located at http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/vista/vistasupport/intellipoint.mspx Once installed, click Pearl (where Start used to be) | All Programs
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:52 AM

Windows Defender final version now available

Defender has been in beta for a while but a few weeks ago the final release was signed off. Defender is our free anti-spyware software which runs in realtime. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:24 AM

solshare.net - Public Sector IT community

A colleague of ours liked rain so much he decided he didn't get enough of it here in Ireland so he relocated to Seattle - the only place on the planet that makes the Irish climate seem hot and sunny :-) As part of his new role he has set up an online
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:16 AM

Managing GPOs with scripts

Most people are familiar with GPMC - the Group Policy Management Console - for administering and troubleshooting GPO's. If you're not familiar with it - download it now, you're wasting your time managing GPO's the "old" way :-) What a lot of people don't
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:35 AM

Terminal Services client v6.0 released

This is now available to download for Windows 2003 & XP. There are quite a few new features - more info is over at the terminal services team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2006/11/29/remote-desktop-connection-terminal-services-client-6-0-for-windows-xp-and-windows-server-2003-english-only-released.asp
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:58 PM

Vista has Released to Manufacturing

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/08/it-s-time.aspx Nice work. Congrats to the Windows team. When Jim says "it's time", for me that means "it's time" to rebuild my laptop - it's had about a dozen Vista beta builds on it over
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:09 AM

Foldershare - real-time backup made easy

MCS is like most consulting organisations in that as a consultant, you are working on customer sites a lot of the time. A downside of this is that you don't get to fully avail of "corporate" solutions such as folder redirection, or the use of home drives
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:51 PM

Making IPSec easier

A lot of people think IPSec is complicated. It's actually pretty easy to implement and manage, and can bring extra ammunition to your defence in depth strategy to help protect critical systems, or to reduce the threat of malware or viruses. The main reason
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:53 PM

Centro Beta is now available for testing

You're probably wondering "what is Centro". If so (or even if not, and you know what Centro is!) - check out this blog
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Friday, October 20, 2006 11:51 AM

System Center Capacity Planner update

SCCP is a great tool for anyone who is designing/planning new MOM or Exchange deployments, or for those who need to determine what is required to support increased growth of an existing infrastructure. I definitely recommend that you take a look if you
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Friday, October 20, 2006 11:41 AM

I've installed Office 2007 - where are my menus?

For some Office 2000/2003 users, the move to Office 2007 can be a little bit daunting at first. After a few hours you really get used to the new ribbon bar and using the product is much more natural and productive than the old-fashioned way. However,
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:30 PM

Migrating from Access to SQL

In desktop deployment projects we see customers spending a lot of time testing departmental Access databases for compatibility with newer versions of Office. Quite often a home-grown Access database becomes critical to the business. At that point, it
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Monday, October 16, 2006 1:15 PM

Speeding up Adobe Reader

I used this method ages ago but have rebuilt my laptop dozens of times over the past few months to keep up with Vista builds. I kept thinking that Adobe loaded much quicker on my old machine and then remembered that I had to configure something to make
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Saturday, October 14, 2006 3:24 PM

Active Directory limits

I've been doing a bit of research around the theoretical limits in an AD environment as part of a project I'm working on. It's unlikely that many people will ever actually hit these limits (if you do, you probably need to take a fundamental look at your
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