Today was my first day back in the office after a week off in the run up to my daughter’s second birthday (where has the time gone!) It was a week at home so i was still connected to the goings on in the blog-o-sphere (and i even attended an AMITPRO meeting (Vijay already blogged
April Meeting of AMITPRO – Tuesday 8th
Just spreading the word a little, The next meeting of AMITPRO will be on Tue 8th April at the Arden Hotel (http://www.ardenhotel.co.uk) meeting at 5.00pm for a 5.30pm start. We have Jeff Ravell of Kaseya (http://www.kaseya.com) presenting on the Kaseya Managed Services solution so should be interesting. If you’ve never been to a user group
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Remotely disconnecting a Terminal Services Session
I tried to logon to one of my clients servers this morning and once I’d entered the user name and password I just got a blank screen. I tried connecting to the console session and had similar luck. I’ve seen this one or two times before and normally a reboot sorts it out and I
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Remember Audiogalaxy?
I certainly do! When using the Audiogalaxy site you installed a small piece of software which they called the “satellite”. This connected to their central servers and communicated which files were available via their users where you could then queue up music to be downloaded p2p style (some information of the software is still available
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Stefan Didak’s Home Office – Jealous? Too Right!
I was looking around some flickr groups this afternoon when I came across Stefan Didak’s Home Office This has got to be one of the most amazing setups I’ve ever seen! I’ve mentioned plenty of times before that I’m a 100% multiple monitor person. I’m currently using two 19″ screens at the office and i’d
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Outlook 2007, public folders and categories
I had an e-mail conversation with a client this week who uses Exchange public folders to share contacts. He initially was planning on creating sub-folders to group the contacts(suppliers, customers, etc) I suggested he used categories as it would mean it was still one place to go for their contacts but they could use a
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McAfee updating – Unable to find a valid repository
I posted a couple of days ago about a new client who is using McAfee. I went back on Tuesday just to finish off and came across a bit of a weird problem This particular PC didn’t have any anti-virus loads so i installed VirusScan 8 I configured it to point to a share to
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Group Policy and Office 2007
Just a quick one… I was looking for some information on Outlook categories for a client when i stumbled across this Group Policy Overview for Office 2007 187 pages of Group policy goodness! Very in-depth It’s from the Office 2007 resource kit Other similar documents are availble here
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What a busy week! (Part Three)
Part Two here Thursday 20th March I gave the night out in Broad Street a miss because I had a 9am meeting the following day that I needed to be sharp for A client has a Visual Foxpro system that basically runs the main function of their business (I wrote it in a previous life
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What a busy week! (Part Two)
Part One here Wednesday 19th March Today was the Microsoft launch event at the ICC in Birmingham so I was up bright and early to make sure I was there on time. The event was huge and i was impressed with the amount of information there was to consume. I got a seat right at the