Category Archives: Microsoft

MVP renewal 2012

Posted on Sunday 1 April 2012 by

My MVP award was renewed for another year today. Thank you to Microsoft for bestowing the honour for the fifth year and thank you to all of the people who’ve helped me gain this award by posting questions, reading my … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 and PowerShell 3 betas

Posted on Thursday 1 March 2012 by

If you haven’t already heard there are new toys available Windows 8 beta is available from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/download Windows Server 8 beta is available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/v8-default.aspx   Most importantly PowerShell v3 beta is from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28998 Windows Management Framework 3.0 makes some … Continue reading →

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System Center engineering blogs

Posted on Tuesday 21 February 2012 by

The System Center family of products is getting a big make over in the 2012 release.  The team blogs have just been rebranded to reflect this System Center: Service Manager System Center: Operations Manager System Center: Virtual Machine Manager System … Continue reading →

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Visio Stencils

Posted on Saturday 20 November 2010 by

If you are looking for Visio stencils – especially of a technical nature – check out Visio cafe – – http://www.visiocafe.com/

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SC Virtual Machine Manager

Posted on Friday 19 November 2010 by

Spent the last two evenings trying to install and configure SC VMM.  Total failure.  Kept getting an error about not being able to connect to the agent on the host – this is after the initial failure of trying to … Continue reading →

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Office 2010

Posted on Saturday 24 April 2010 by

Office 2010 recently went RTM and is now available fro download from MSDN/TechNet.  Downloaded and installed without a problem.  I removed the beta versions – having remembered to export my auto correct entries.  Install went smooth and import the auto … Continue reading →

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Office 2010 – fixed in beta

Posted on Wednesday 18 November 2009 by

A couple of issues that I noticed with the Office 2010 TP have been fixed in the beta: Word documents will now download from the Internet and open One undocks back to normal view correctly I did notice that in … Continue reading →

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Office 2010 beta

Posted on Tuesday 17 November 2009 by

The Office 2010 beta is available on TechNet and MSDN. The installation seems very smooth. Need to uninstall Technical Preview version first – thats always boring and a pain. Slight hiccup over activation as the license key wasn’t asked for … Continue reading →

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Office 2010 TP

Posted on Sunday 15 November 2009 by

Recent talk of the imminent arrival of the Office 2010 beta made me suddenly remember I have been using the Technology Preview for a number of months. The only issue I have found is when downloading Word documents from the … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Windows Mail

Posted on Tuesday 3 March 2009 by

When I installed Windows 7 I went looking for Windows Mail (Outlook Express replacement in Vista).  Its not there – in fact you don’t get a mail client of any kind.  Idea is to download and use the Live Mail … Continue reading →

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