Monthly Archive for November, 2007

New VHDs

Published on November 27, 2007 in asides and virtual server. 0 Comments

Microsoft has added some new VHDs to their VHD Site including Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 and Windows Server 2008 Beta 3.

Windows XP SP3 hack

Published on November 27, 2007 in asides and windows xp. 0 Comments

Hack Attack : Get Windows XP SP3 Through Windows Update

VMWare Server 2 Beta released

Published on November 13, 2007 in asides and vmware server. 0 Comments

VMWare released VMWare Server 2 Beta today.

Server 2008 virtualization installation

Published on November 9, 2007 in asides and server 2008. 0 Comments

How to install and enable the Windows Server virtualization CTP in Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate. I spent about 15 minutes trying to get this configured on my test Server 2008 machine before I realized that I had installed the 32-bit version of the OS. Doh!

No more “click to activate” in IE

Published on November 9, 2007 in asides and internet explorer. 0 Comments

Internet Explorer is losing the “click to activate” requirement for embedded controls on a web page. Finally.

Manual uninstallation for Symantec Client Security products

Published on November 6, 2007 in asides and symantec. 0 Comments

Manual uninstallation for Symantec Client Security products.

Outlook Desktop

Published on November 6, 2007 in asides and outlook. 0 Comments

Outlook Desktop places your Outlook calendar on the desktop and pin it so that it’s always visible. There are options to set the transparency so that you can see your desktop.

PowerGUI

Published on November 6, 2007 in asides and powershell. 0 Comments

PowerGUI is a GUI-based administration tool for managing systems based on Windows PowerShell.

Virtual Machine Additions for Linux

Published on November 6, 2007 in asides, linux and virtual server. 0 Comments

Virtual Machine Additions for Linux. These additions improve the support for the display and mouse drivers, the SCSI drive emulation, and synchronization of the time and heartbeat between the guest and the host. It seems that they only support Redhat and SuSE flavors as of now.