Microsoft have provided a Visio 2010 Add-In to enable Disk Space Monitoring, it provides a graphical view of free space available on selected computers. To populate the Visio diagram it can either be populated from an Excel spreadsheet or System Center Operations Manager. Once all the desired computers have been contacted, the information is [...]
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate–now available.
October 26, 2010
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Microsoft have today delivered the first release candidate (RC) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Service Pack 1 is slated for release in early 2011 but there is no confirmed date. The Service Pack can be downloaded here and the associated documentation can be downloaded here. The document “Windows 7 and Windows Server [...]
Read moreBlackBerry Desktop Manager and Microsoft Outlook 2010
July 13, 2010
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BlackBerry via their website last week announced that the BlackBerry Desktop Manager should support 32Bit Outlook 2010 by August 2010, but it will not support 64Bit Outlook 2010 until sometime in 2011. The article states that: “Currently, BlackBerry Desktop Manager 5.0.1 does not support Microsoft Outlook 2010 64-bit version for mailbox connectivity and synchronization of [...]
Read moreOffice 2010 Cumulative Updates for June 2010
June 30, 2010
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Office 2010 has been available since April this year and Microsoft has made available a series of updates to improve the Office 2010 experience. The updates whilst all grouped under “Office 2010 Cumulative Update for June 2010 KB 2259686“, they are in fact a series of invidual updates targeted at specific products that are part [...]
Read moreResultant Set of Policy (RSOP) not working.
June 24, 2010
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Recently I had a couple of issues with Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) and enabling it to work for IT teams who were not Administrators. One issue I had was that every time Resultant Set of Policy was run for users with delegated permissions (and on further testing “Domain Admins” too) they all received an [...]
Read moreInstall Office Professional Plus 2010 or Visio Professional 2010 before May 1?
May 10, 2010
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MSDN and TechNet Subscribers who installed Office Professional Plus 2010 or Visio Professional 2010 before May 1, 2010 may not have all product features enabled. Last week when I logged on to the TechNet downloads website, I noticed that my orignal Office Professional Plus 2010 key had now become a “Terminal Service enablement” Key and there were now [...]
Read moreLenovo “Open File – Security Warning” after installing Windows 7 Drivers.
May 4, 2010
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Over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, I spent some of my time rebuilding my laptop. The last time I rebuilt my laptop – Windows 7 had just RTM’d; all the drivers were still beta and Lenovo offered very limited Windows 7 support. This time Lenovo had all the drivers readily available and Windows Update took [...]
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