Aug
31
Back in April Microsoft put on their free tech day’s events in London, and today I spotted a tweet by Markjo saying the next tech days will be in London from 5th October at ICC Canary Wharf now I missed the last event due to work commitments but I will definitely attempt to get to …
Aug
30
One of the features in Windows 7 is the ability to mount a VHD file as a drive, this could be very useful in this world of HyperV because this allows you to extract a file directly from the VHD file on a desktop machine very useful if you have a VHD backup of your …
Aug
27
One of the changes in Exchange 2010 with service pack 1 is that themes are back for end users and admins, this feature was in the beta of Exchange but was removed in the RTM version. For the end user they can choose their theme from the options button as illustrated below. The amount of …
Aug
26
Today I started the job of installing service pack 1 for Exchange 2010 which can be downloaded from here. The first thing I must say is just how unhelpful the installer is, if you compare this with the SharePoint 2010 installer it is an absolute nightmare, as you can see from the screenshot below after …
Aug
23
It’s hard to explain what I mean in words so here is a picture: See how the icons do not sit right next to the title of the item and you are left with masses of white space. This bug only seams to appear in IE8 and in firefox it works just fine. The picture …
Aug
21
This post is a follow on to my Free HyperV Monitoring Tool post where I showed you a free but limited HyperV tool for monitoring your HyperV environment, in this post I will look at Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and show some of the benefits for managing your HyperV install with this management …
Aug
19
Guest Post By Darren White Today myself and Dave where working on a customer site when the question of HyperV statistics came up, it would be good to be able to see what free memory was available on the host machine and also what memory was being used by the guest OS’s, now as has been …
Aug
13
You may be aware of a constant debate that goes on between myself, Dave and a few others in education about running virtual environments and whether they should/could be 100% virtual of if you would need some physical domain controllers put into the mix. If you’re not familiar with the debate have a quick read …
Aug
12
Yesterday we were meeting a customer when the question of the difference in SharePoint 2010 versions came up well we answered the questions but I did not have a definitive answer or a document or URL that I could refer people too. So today after a bit of searching I managed to find on the …
