I compared Microsoft Office 2007 to OpenOffice to find out which is the better office suite. The five points I used to compare the two are: The interface The quality of the help files and assistance when you get stuck The speed with which common tasks can be performed The richness of the templates provided […]
I am no longer a user of Windows Vista. It has been nearly a year since Microsoft released Vista. I first wrote about it when I tested the upgrade process from Windows XP to Vista Business Edition. Shortly after that I upgraded my laptop and resolved a few minor issues with the optical drive, the […]
Whinging about UAC is for wimps, this is a real Windows Vista annoyance. 1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate through the folder tree in the left pane (eg, navigate to C:Temp) 2. Drag and select one or more files or folders in the right pane that you would like to delete 3. Hit delete Windows […]
Dan has a special place in his heart for iSCSI, so this one is for him.
Microsoft announced the release of Search Server 2008, which comes in both a free “Express” edition, and a paid enterprise edition. Microsoft Search Server 2008 is the next version of Office SharePoint Server 2007 For Search. They have basically taken MOSS 2007, stripped it down to just the index and search components, and then added […]
ISAServer.org has published a guide for creating an ISA reports web server. It is a quick and easy solution to making the reports available to managers and other interested parties. For my ISA Server deployments I like to take it a step further and use a little ASP code to generate some nicer looking tables […]
Microsoft is holding the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 in Seattle from March 3rd to March 6th next year. The conference brings together Microsoft product specialists, customers, partners and industry analysts to share their wealth of real life product and deployment experiences. And of course, the conference website is powered by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server […]
Jeff Jones posted a blog entry to celebrate Red Hat fixing their 1000th unique security vulnerability. He also draws attention to a Red Hat post on their “Truth Happens” blog back in August, which itself quotes a post on Lxer.com. Jeff posts quarterly statistics on his blog that show how many vulnerabilities have been patched for various […]
The Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Team Blog published a write up back in April this year written by Avneesh Kaushik about their experience using Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 and ASP.NET 2.0 to develop the Hawaiian Air internet website. The HawaiianAir.com website is mission critical for Hawaiian Airlines because it transacted the majority of […]
Aaron runs a great blog but I’m quite amazed that Adobe is actually telling customers to look there for basic information like download links for their software. I’ve had a few e-mails over the past few weeks, from people looking for the Adobe Flash Player installer, because Adobe tech support has been directing people here […]
An Exchange Server 2007 server with incorrectly loaded performance counters may result in many instances of event ID 3006 being logged to the Application Event Log. Event Type: Warning Event Source: LoadPerf Event Category: None Event ID: 3006 Date: 10/09/2007 Time: 12:51:51 User: N/A Computer: SERVER Description: Unable to read the performance counter strings of the 011 language ID. The Win32 status returned […]
I did a search via the Internet Explorer 7 search bar today which happened to still be configured to use Live.com (the default setting). I was quickly reminded why I stick to Google instead of Live. Not only didn’t the first page of results have what I was looking for, it didn’t even have any […]
