Archive for the ‘Applications’ Category

SQL 2008 is out now

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Microsoft have finally released SQL Server 2008 this week just in time becuase support for SQL 2000 has just expired. SQL 2008 has a list of new features including - Enterprise Reporting Engine - Reports can easily be delivered throughout the organization, both internally and externally, with simplified deployment and configuration. Internet Report ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hyper-V RC1

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Looks like Microsoft have just released Hyper-V RC1. It can be downloaded from KB950049. We've been running RC0 on a few sites for a while without incident and really like the functions it offers. No crashes or lockups yet, lets hope that RC1 builds nicely on that. From Technet Blog