Archive for the ‘Desktops and Laptops’ Category

Fixing redirected My Docs permissions, using Powershell

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

For many of our customers we redirect a user's My Documents to a directory of the same name, on a Windows share. For example, the user 'JMcMuffin' may have their My Docs redirected to "\\FILESERVER\Home\JMcMuffin\My Documents", which are stored in a local path of D:\Data\Users\JMcMuffin, on FILESERVER. Obviously you can ...

Great Anti-Malware/Adware/Spyware

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

During our day to day work we sometimes come across a messy PC full of Malware (or whatever you might want to call it). We recently had to deal just such a poorly PC and a new found tool came to the resuce - Anti-Malware by Malwarebytes. Exceptionally simple interface, quick ...

New Software / Service Packs

Friday, July 4th, 2008

In the last few days the following (relevent to us and our customers) software has been released - Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 This is just like the RDC program that's build into Windows. It allows users to connect to a server for administration or terminal services. We and ...

Hyper-V Final

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Hyper-V, Microsofts replacement for their great Virtual Server product has been released. Full 64 bit client / guest support and free on a Windows 2008 Server. Would be nice to get a Vista version but we're not holding our breath. Expect a host server reboot and a re-install of the Intergration ...

Vista SP1 Reliability and Performance update

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Microsoft have released an update for Windows Vista with SP1, KB952709 is marked as a Reliability and performance update with a whole list of fixes such as - Windows Vista SP1-based computers by reducing the number of crashes that may be caused by the Apple QuickTime thumbnail preview in Windows Live ...