For the past 4 years we have been using Windows Mobile and Exchange Mobility I cannot complain it works, since upgrading to Exchange SP2 we have been able to browse the Global Address List (GAL) and sync Tasks, it even worked with the “Push Pull” so the users were continuously receiving their emails to their phones. The Spartphones we were using at the very beginning were Orange SPV C500’s they were good for what we needed them for, battery life was adequate, would get maybe 2 days full use out of them if we set them to sync...
Some time ago I wrote a post on the Mimecast Active Stationary and creating a custom email disclaimer with a business card pulling the information from AD. This is a great solution, however there is one draw back, it applies the business card to the very bottom of the emails on replies and threads. IT works well when the email has been generated on the sending end as it applies it directly below. I had a look some time ago at creating a script that would create an Outlook signature but didn’t get very far. Last week a colleague/friend...
Over the weekend I was migrating our Harrogate Datacentre on to a HyperV Cluster, one of the 10 servers was a Windows 2000 Std box running RSA Server. Windows 2000 can only be P2V’ed offline as W2K does not support VSS. In prep for the migration I was trying to create the Virtuals prior to the move on the servers that were pretty static. However the W2K box just didn’t want to work, it would re-boot into winpe and then try and connect to the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) but it timed out after 15 minutes. I tried...
I have been using my Nikon D50 now for almost a month and learning lots about it and learning how to improve my technique, both with the camera and off the camera (photoshop). Any how I took it up to the bridge that goes over the Edinburgh City Bypass the other night and experimented with the Exposures of about 30 seconds, an aperture of f25 and an ISO of 200. I used a tripod and took the photo, this is the outcome: I had to edit the pictures a little bit compensate the exposure...
Since upgrading my laptop I have started to look at XP Mode in more depth, my initial view on it was that it was just a preconfigured XP PC that you ran as a virtual on your Windows 7 PC/Laptop when you needed to access a program that does not run on Windows 7. I was so wrong! I did not realise that when you install applications on the XP Mode PC it creates a sub menu in the Windows Virtual PC menu and would enable you to run the application as if it was...
I recently upgraded my laptop’s hardware with 4GB RAM and a 500GB HDD (for about £130 RAM £65 and HDD £65), in order to use the full 4GB RAM I needed to install Windows 7 x64, which installed nice a quickly via USB :) see my previous post on that one. The reason for upgrading was primarily to provision enough resources to maintain a decent performing laptop whilst running 2 VM’s simultaneously 2GB of RAM just was not enough and I was running low in Disk space. I installed the beta of Office 2010 and then installed...
For this you will need: Windows 7 DVD or install files 1 x 4GB USB Flash Disk a pc that supports booting from a usb device. Follow these steps to the word and you should have an up and running USB Flash Drive that you can installing Windows 7 (or Vista) from. 1. Plug in the USB flash drive and backup the data on it (if you want to keep it). Make a note of the drive letter in this example I am going to use F:\...
I came across this error today when trying to Remote Desktop onto a windows XP PC I received and error saying that I could not connect due to the awgina.dll. Now I am not too clued up on what gina does what but I was convinced that the gina that should be loaded was msgina.dll. So I did some digging in the Registry. My first thought was to look in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and in there I saw a value for the gina location pointing to awgina.dll, change this to msgina.dll and reboot your PC and you should be able...
I have been after a new Digital Camera for some time now and really been after a D-SLR as the digital compact camera’s I have always settled for are a little on the “naff” side, they take 1 – 2 seconds to actually take a photo when inside and then there are not may functions on it. I really wanted to get my hands on a D-SLR, after playing around with (sorry I mean using) my brothers Nikon I really wanted to get something similar. Well I managed to get on, its not brand new, its was my...
I recently setup a server in our Edinburgh office that was connected to a Dell MD3000i to act as a HyperV host for a number of “low end” guests like our voice manager PC, Antivirus server, and to house those Desktop servers that we all have sitting in our racks in our data centres. We had a couple just services that run on Windows XP but need to be switched on and logged on 24/7. Originally the server was setup as a single server with 10 guests on it but it became apparent that if that server did...