November 2007 - Posts

Friday, November 30, 2007 10:59 PM

HP Product Bulletin and ConfigureAider

Body: Amongst the software that I use are two little gems from HP. HP Product Bulletin This is basically a full guide to the HP Product line, both present and past. It contains all kinds of useful information including tech specs, memory option part numbers...
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Friday, November 30, 2007 6:08 PM

Last Call for SBS 2003 SP1/ISA 2004 Media Kits

Body: Yup - that's right. This is the last call for anyone that has not yet picked up their SBS 2003 SP1/ISA 2004 Media Kits. December 31, 2007 is the end date for Microsoft to supply these and if you have not yet ordered your kit then you need to...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:40 PM

Trend are getting close to a resolution

Body: You'll recall from earlier posts here , here and here , that Trend are digging into a solution for two separate cases. I received communication from them overnight indicating that after looking at the case numbers that you've given me to...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:05 PM

Trend CSM 3.6 Update

Body: Ok - following on from my blog post last week, on the issues that a few people have been having with Trend's CSM for SMB 3.6 product, I have this update. Thanks to all those that have sent me information from your investigations. This is helping...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:33 PM

CRN Award - the full story

Body: Recently I was awarded an award by CRN Magazine which was very unexpected. Prior to the award, I was interviewed by CRN for what I thought was a profile piece they were doing on various members of the community. The interview lasted around an hour...
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Monday, November 26, 2007 4:15 PM

SharePoint Toolkit - now available for download

Body: This was released at the World Wide Partner Conference this year and now it's available for download direct from Microsoft. It's a very cool toolkit that will help you understand, sell and implement Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3...
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Monday, November 26, 2007 1:07 AM

Will she ever get paid for the hard work she does?

Body: I have a good friend of mine - Sandi Hardmeier who has spent many a day fighting some of the worst spyware out there in the wild. A lot of her work goes unrecognised, and at times when it is recognised, it's done without clearing naming "the...
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Monday, November 26, 2007 12:58 AM

Microsoft Australia SBSC Updates

Body: Recently I was asked to be part of a panel discussion with Microsoft's new SBSC Program Manager Wendy Smith. These were a series of discussions held in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in which Microsoft wanted to hear from the SBSC's to understand...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 6:24 PM

Update for Trenders

Body: Thank you to the people that have emailed me about the Trend issues I have mentioned. It seems based on the feedback that I've gotten that what I see as ONE issue is to separate issues. I've got some info on how to resolve one of them and...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:58 PM

Last call for two great community events

Body: This is the last call for two great community events we're having here in Australia this week. The Sydney SBS Group meeting is on tonight and we have guest speakers Jeff Alexander, Dana Epp and Amy Babinchak along with Susan Bradley and Eriq...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:20 PM

Calling all Trenders...

Body: I'm trying to take the temperature from the community here on an issue that I've seen pop up on a few of the computers at a few of my sites. I've lodged the issue with Trend now here in Australia, and I've started to hear from a...
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Friday, November 16, 2007 9:38 PM

DCDIAG and Redirected Printers

Body: I'm doing a migration this weekend in a large, non SBS site. As part of that I've replaced the domain controller in a remote site with a new box. After making it a domain controller, I ran DCDIAG to check that all was fine. I got a number...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 2:53 PM

Windows Live Writer can be used with a Sharepoint Blog

Body: I found out over the weekend that Microsoft have released the Windows Live Writer. Currently I use Word 2007 to do all my writing and publishing to this blog and it's as easy as writing the content and pressing the Publish button instead of...
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Friday, November 09, 2007 5:54 PM

Groove on multiple computers – not synchronising correctly.

Body: I've been trying to get into Groove and things were working pretty well. I use it on my desktop and my laptop with all workspaces shared between the two of them. However recently I got a new laptop and desktop. They didn't come at the same...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:01 PM

The product formerly known as “Centro” gets a name

Body: Microsoft today announced that the mid market server product they have been working codenamed "Centro" now has a real name. They've called it Essential Business Server or EBS for short. Whilst the product is still in beta, there are...
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 11:24 PM

I am not worthy, but Thank you CRN.

Body: I was invited to attend the inaugural CRN Awards here in Sydney last Friday night as a guest of Trend Micro. This is their first awards ceremony here in Australia but their UK and USA counterparts have been doing them for many years. As part of...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 7:02 PM

Damien says “This is like Geek Porn…”

Body: In our office, one of our guys – Damien, is our resident coder/programmer guru. I showed him a book today " Windows Command-Line Administrators Pocket Consultant " from MS Press ISBN 978-0-7356-2038-4. This book is one I'm reading...
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