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February 2007 - Posts

Forefront Security Management Console Beta 1 releases to the web
Good news for those of you using Forefront for Exchange and SharePoint! Theres a new centralised console to manage the both of them together. You can download it here. The Forefront Client Security management console will remain separate to this console Read More...
Canadian IT Pro blog podcast on Virtualisation
The Canadians have got the scoop. Jeff Woolsey from the Windows Server Virtualisation team has done a podcast with Rick Claus from the Canadian IT Pro team . Now that Ive seen Windows Server Virtualisation I cant wait to get it running on my AMD 64bit Read More...
WDS for WinXP
Grant Holliday asked me for it so here it is! He wanted to know how to use WDS to capture a Windows XP image. The process is essentially the same as Vista although with the Vista image it can be used on any type of hardware - with the WinXP image its Read More...
Brian Madsen presents on Expression
Brian Madsen, ASP.net MVP presented to the Port80 user group a few weeks ago. The pod cast has just become available for download if you want a copy of it! Read More...
Want your Zune to play DivX?
While I was in the US I got one of these Zune thingies. While being quite happy with it - a few things got me really annoyed. Firstly the lack of DVR-MS support that allows me to play recorded TV on it from my Media Centre was just frustrating. Secondly Read More...
Australia: Take Control Management Event
Deeps asked me to let you all know about the following event. Apparently the registration code you need for it is: DB-2739 "...The Take Control seminars are an opportunity to learn about the potential for major efficiencies in your desktop and server Read More...
Comment Spam time of year again
Its happened before and its happening again. Almost every hour or so Im getting someone trying to put his comment spam on my blog. This time the person is trying to appeal to my sense of sympathy with a comment starting line of " Hi, if you good moderator, Read More...
Does a burger get any bigger?
So before I start blogging about the stuff I saw last week at our internal conference I saw something that I just had to take a photo of in Seattle Airport: Take a look at the BK Stacker in the middle. In the centre of the photo is a two meat pattie burger Read More...
Servers not communicating with Active Directory correctly
I had an interesting question through my blog today. An IT Pro had a problem with a server he joined to the domain. The problem was that it just didnt seem to be working properly despite joining the domain fine. He couldnt seem to be able to query Active Read More...
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