Determine your Office 2010 Version
Moshe Silber sent over a quick tip: I was having an issue at a client adding an Office 2010 key to an existing installation. They have an Open…
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64 bit Musings; aka Writing scripts in a 64 bit Windows Environment.
I’m sure most of us will or have been installing 64 bit operating systems more and more so when I saw this note from my colleague Jacques Bensimon…
Licensing the Free ESXi
So lots of my clients are beginning to look at Hyper-V and the idea of trying out the free Hypervisor from Microsoft in their development environments. I put…
Patch Tuesday causes issue with VMware View Windows 7 connections.
Looks like a recent patch from Microsoft has caused some view clients to stop connecting. VMware is aware of the newly discovered issue and is advising customers to…
Public Cloud : Turn your engineers into helpless users.
Sounds like a good April Fools joke but it’s only January. I think outsourcing parts of an environment to the cloud might have this effect on some…
2010 – A Look Back
So the end of the year is coming up quick so I figured I would start on the obligatory year-end review. A chance to look back at the…
Quick Tip : Windows Uptime
Here is a quick tip from Moshe Silber for Windows 7/2008 machines. You know sometimes you’re trying to find the uptime of a Windows machine and it’s a…
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 released.
I love Microsoft Security Essentials. I love the integration, ease of updating, protection and the price! For an application as utilitarian as virus scanning, free is a great…
Don’t be so eager to use ALL the products you own.
VMware vSphere with Citrix XenDesktop leveraging Citrix Provisioning Services. It’s a familiar solution in my world these days and it works well. I’ve grown accustomed to the convenience…