Well I am back of the Easter break and here is my first post Easter Post !I have been on quite a few customer sites recently where either the Default Domain Controllers Group Policy has been disabled or additionally the customer has moved the domain controllers out of the the default Organisational Unit. Ok -…
Year: 2007
Been a little crazy – but a blog before Easter holidays
I have been on my travels recently and have hooked up with some of my PFE (Premier Field Engineers) in Portugal where we have been attending a course. This was brilliantly presented by Paresh Nhathalal who is one of the most technically brilliant Engineers I know when it comes to anything to do with Active…
Useful Windows Live Add-in for Microsoft Outlook
I came across this add-in the other day which pretty useful. This allows you do to do the following ; “Windows Live Local for Outlook adds maps, routes, traffic updates, driving directions, and travel time to your Microsoft Office Outlook meeting requests. See maps in road, aerial, bird’s eye view,* and amazing 3D view*!” So…
Excellent Post on /3GB (In)famous Switch
I go onto alot of customer sites and am constantly evaluating the performance and configuration and advising best practise on Domain Controllers. Often the Support team has configured the /3gb switch in their Boot.ini files…..many of them do not know why ? or say “The Exchange Team insisted upon it “. Well if you want…
Excellent Vista References
Following on the hot on the heals of Richard Macdonalds cracking Virtualization one stop shop Reference list, he has posted another excellent collection resources but this time for Vista. This list is pretty comprehensive and Richard has promised to update it if he has missed anything out. Looking at the length of the list I cant…
Question Time – But sorry Guys not for you this time !
If you have read my blog over the last few weeks or months, you are probably aware that one of my passions is to encourage more girls to choose Computing as a Career. Well lucky me….Microsoft Also think this too !…I am involved in a initiative at work to encourage more women in technology as…
Virtual Headphones
This article caught my eye. Computer Speakers for Your Ears Only. Microsoft Research have developed an algorithm which effectively creates a focused beam of sound that acts as virtual headphones. This will mean that you can “target focused sound so that a person can walk around an office and hear” while on a video- or…
Fake Web Pages
There is a really interesting article on the New York Times web site about the proliferation of fake spam web sites. check it out ….http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/technology/19spam.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
This will be well worth a visit – Vista Squad Meeting
There will be an inaugural meeting of the “Vista Squad” on the Weds 28th of March @ T.V.P. Reading. This meeting looks well worth attending, if you follow the link above there are going to be some extremely useful presentations. I also agree with James O’neil. I LOVE their artwork for the “Vista Squad” ……cool. It…
Windows Service Pack 2 Now gone Live
Guys and girls just in case you have not picked this up on your barometer Windows Service Pack 2 has gone live today. Check out this range of links and blogs that talk around it. http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/03/13/sp2-goes-live.aspx Release Notes for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/ed5382af-e819-4d33-ace0-225d31b7ab751033.mspx Windows Server 2003 & Windows XP x64 Service…