July 29, 2010

The Simplest Improvement to the MS Help and Support Site

This one simple change could really improve the Microsoft Help and Support site for IT workers doing remote server support.

Security descriptor error during Exchange Server 2007 schema extension

During Exchange Server 2007 schema extension you may encounter a security descriptor error which will cause setup to fail.

Steve Riley on hypervisor attacks

  You have to ask: is there malware on my system? You can be 100 per cent certain there is no malware that you can detect, but less than 100 per cent certain that there is no malware at all. Now, ladies and gentlemen, isn’t this true of every computer we already have? There is [...]

Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Microsoft ad

Not sure what they’re advertising…

Windows Server 2008 activation gripe

Here is a tip for Microsoft, if you’re going to pop up and remind me to activate my Windows Server 2008 installation, give me the option right here to enter my product key so that when I hit “Activate Windows online now” it doesn’t fail.

Exchange Server 2007 is now supported for hardware virtualisation

We’ve been virtualising Exchange Server 2007 since it was first released but this week Microsoft has announced their official support policies for virtualised Exchange environments.  It is a bit heavy on the Hyper-V but also references the list of support partners for non-Microsoft hardware virtualisation.  When I checked this earlier in the week VMWare was [...]