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Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) is live

Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:53 PM by nmercer
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables IT administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista with SP1. It includes support for remote management of computers running either Read More...
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Windows Vista SP1 is available for download

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:52 AM by nmercer
Windows Vista SP1 is now downloadable via Windows Update.  Get the full story from Nick on the Vista Team Blog .   Get the x86 standalone package @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b0c7136d-5ebb-413b-89c9-cb3d06d12674&DisplayLang=en Read More...
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Windows Vista Interactive Virtual Roundtable with Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:37 PM by nmercer
Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will be hosting an interactive virtual roundtable—broadcast LIVE over the Internet on Thursday, March 6 (NZ time). The subject? Windows Vista adoption and deployment. On the panel with Read More...
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Windows Vista SP1 available for Download on TechNet Plus

Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 12:16 PM by nmercer
Good news for TechNet Plus subscribers eager to download the official Windows Vista SP1 bits.  The Windows Vista SP1 "Update" is now available for download through the Top Subscriber Downloads section at http://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions Read More...
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All Blacks Rugby Gadget released

Posted Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:47 PM by nmercer
Just released by the New Zealand Rugby Union - grab the All Blacks Rugby Gadget from http://www.allblacks.com/gadget/default.htm    The gadget regularly updates including fixtures, results, streaming video, news and also information on our team. Read More...
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Update on future Windows releases: Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 update

Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:47 PM by nmercer
Overnight Microsoft announced availability dates for several key product updates including Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, Service Pack 3 for Windows XP and the release to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008. Together these releases are a good example Read More...
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NZ Daylight Savings Time Zone Changes

Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:37 PM by nmercer
As was announced recently by the Government , daylight savings will be three weeks longer than it has been previously. Specifically clocks will go forward one hour a week earlier than usual on the last Sunday in September, and back one hour on the first Read More...
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Presentation decks from 2007 Tech Briefing online

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:59 PM by nmercer
Now that the Microsoft New Zealand 2007 Technical Briefing's are over, the slide decks are available for download Check them out here from the MSNZ Events site My Vista Deployment deck is still jumping through hoops getting uploaded onto the site, in Read More...
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New Zealand Prime Minister Tablet PC-ing in Redmond

Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:13 PM by nmercer
The Rt. Hon. Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, met with Microsoft’s senior executives at the company’s headquarters in Redmond. The group exchanged a broad range of ideas around technology solutions designed to create opportunities for New Zealand’s Read More...
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Making the best Desktop ever ... (free training in NZ)

Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:46 PM by nmercer
We have a handful of seats available for some Windows Vista training, this week in Auckland and next week in Wellington. Read on for details, BTW this is free: You are invited to come along to one of a very limited number of two day interactive technical Read More...
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Windows Vista Launch Event in NZ

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:50 AM by nmercer
Well thanks to out timezone New Zealand was the first country to officially launch Windows Vista and Office 2007 My colleague Nigel Parker was up in Auckland and the main event at midnight last night. See the cool video he put together here The rest of Read More...
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Microsoft @ CES

Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 11:42 AM by nmercer
The 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is about to start in Las Vegas at the moment. Bill Gates is doing a keynote this afternoon NZ time and its available as a live stream, or ondemand tomorrow. If you're watching live this afternoon, Read More...
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BDD 2007 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

Posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:00 AM by nmercer
One of the things I've been busy with over the last couple of months is educating NZ IT Pro's on Windows Vista deployment. Well we're getting closer to releasing the final version of Business Desktop Deployment 2007, and here is the download of RC1 of Read More...
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Virtual PC 2007 beta now open

Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:46 PM by nmercer
The Virtual PC 2007 Beta is now available to download, with Windows Vista support! - sign up for it here Some of the major changes include: Support for hardware virtualisation (both Intel & AMD) Support for Windows Vista as a host operating system Read More...
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Mount ISOs in Vista?

Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:56 PM by nmercer
Daemon Tools is a "standard-issue" tool that a lot of people use to mount ISO images onto their machines. The download versions that have been available in the past have not worked on Windows Vista. I just noticed last night that the Daemon Tools website Read More...
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