Moo SBS Sticker Books Originally uploaded by Andy Parkes A little while back i came across a website called Moo.com Basically they are a London based company that take your pictures and turn them into mini-cards and notecards for handing out to friends and the like. I thought about getting some pictures of my little
Closure on closure
A while back i posted and had a moan where i worried we may be losing customer for sticking to our principles (original post here) and was worried the client may end up getting a nasty sting if they went with what on the surface appeared to be a vastly cheaper quote I then posted
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Bye Bye Outlook RSS
I’ve never found an RSS reader i’ve been 100% happy with I started with NewsGator (online version) and tried various desktop offerings such as RSS Bandit but thought Outlook 2007 would be the answer to my prayers. I know that it doesn’t have the features that other readers have but it does mean i keep
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SBS burned into the brain
Nice post over on coding horror about how baby ducks become instantly attached to the first thing they see and how we do similar things with software “Baby Duck Syndrome is the tendency for computer users to “imprint” on the first system they learn, then judge other systems by their similarity to that first system.
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Why bother with support…do it yourself!
Maybe the title is a bit harsh…but that’s pretty much how it happened! *Note* So you don’t have to read all of this if your a Virgin Media Customer using Windows Vista and can’t download music from the SonicSelect (OD2Music) server add the following to “trusted sites”. If your interesting in why then please read on
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Domain Profile Migration Fun!
One thing i love about doing SBS installs is that unless its a 100% new network (new PCs, printers, the lot!) i that always learn something The install i’ve been doing this week i originally planned to swing migrate, but after further investigation (like a really poorly named domain name for starters!) i decided a
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Norton Anti-Virus Uninstall Password
Just in case you arrive at a PC you have never seen before, try to uninstall the existing Norton Anti-virus and get prompted for an “uninstall password” just type “symantec” (withouth the quotes obviously!) and your done
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Nothing is ever easy!
So i posted a couple of weeks ago about my impending cable installation The day of the installation arrived and i had been told the engineers would arrive between 8:00 and 13:00 My wife (bryony) waited in for them and by 12:30 she was still waiting I made a quick call and somehow they had
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McAfee final straw
I had a big issue today that has finally pushed me over the edge with McAfee products….. First of all let me qualify why we currently use McAfee products as i know it’s not everyones cup of tea When we first started the company all of the clients who came on board straight away had
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Internet Explorer error when installing SBS R2
Just in case anyone else makes the same mistake i did <blush> If you install IE7 before you install the R2 “bits” you’ll get the following error Setup encountered an error while installing the cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. For more information see the log files at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Integration\Windows Small Business Server 2003\Log\KB912812.log..