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After going through this with a client the other day, i thought it might make a good post. So - you have made up your Windows 7 SOE using SCCM OSD and its all working well on virtuals - and now it comes time to start adding support for all the various makes and models…
Continue readinghttp://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28809 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2645995 Thats quite a few fixes....
Continue readingIt looks like the latest update of the malware inspection rules for TMG 2010 blocks google.com, believing it is infected with JS/Blacole.BW. It's not as if many people use google... so we've got a couple a couple of calls about this so far.... and it looks like a few other people have run into it…
Continue readingLate last year, i pourchased a number of Dell servers for the Adexis environment... there were delivery hassles etc... but once everything turned up, i racked it and its been reasonably smooth sailing since then.... Couple of things i have found... 1) Dell's server management tools suck - and suck bad. Open Manage essentials and…
Continue readingWe went into a regular client this week, after another consultancy had tried to integrate Lync with exchange 2010 and get a sip trunk working. 4 full days - and not only was it not working, but it was busted existing functionality. (We put in the original Lync home server) We actually picked up this…
Continue readingsaw this link over at my prefered hardware news site - anandtech.com http://www.dailytech.com/Symantec+Accused+of+Selling+Scareware+of+No+Value/article23766.htm Made me smile.... All antivirus or security vendors are preying fear to some extent... with firewalls - you dont get a firewall because someones attacking you, you get a firewall because it helps to make it more difficult for people to attack…
Continue readingSo i grabbed the SC 2012 RC suite last night... tried to install using the unified installer, as megh - a quick and easy way of getting all the products on at once for a test enviornment - sounds good to me. The local MS guys mentioned this to me a few weeks ago…
Continue readingYay! Long overdue.... very very long overdue - but at least they finally did something about it! http://bink.nu/news/microsoft-exchange-pst-capture-tool-released.aspx havent actually used it yet - as, well, its just come out.... and we doint use pst's internally... but this will be very handy for a few migrations coming up (assuming it works well!)
Continue readingA few weeks a go, a mate of mine mentioned that he was looking a getting a network TV tuner.... "they're readily available these days?" i asked.... as i just hadnt thought about it for many years.... sure enough he pointed me to http://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers/accessories/kaiser-baas/network-tv-tuner-sku-67777/ http://www.kaiserbaas.com/kaiser-baas-product-page/tv-tuners/network-tv-tuner picked one up, installed it today (was waiting on some…
Continue readingSystem Centre 2012 RC's - cool.... but FFS - give the private cloud shit a rest. Giving hosted services another name doesnt change them from being hosted services.... not sure who's worse, the marketers that make this shit up or the CIO's that fall for it. (similar to who's worse, the spammers, or the people…
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