Monthly Archives: August 2005

Think of Call Assistant as your Out-of-Office autoresponder for your cell phone. How often do you find yourself stuck in an all day meeting where you can’t play with your cell phone? Well, Call Assistant is just what you need … Continue reading →

Eileen Brown is reporting that the LiveMeeting add-in pack is online. The ability to start a session from an IM is a great new feature I will abuse immediately. The Live Meeting Add-In Pack consists of three distinct add-ins: the … Continue reading →

The WMI Code Creator tool generates code that uses WMI to obtain management information or perform management tasks. You can use the tool to learn how to manage computers using WMI scripting and WMI .NET. The tool generates code that … Continue reading →

Privacy is like a girlfriend that you’re helplessly in love with. She comes back every so often, just to give you a false hope and break your heart all over again. This time around it is not a case of … Continue reading →

Fellow OrlandoSBS guy R. Scott Buchanan first called out this problem on our list on Monday, but it turns out a lot more people do not know about it: In order for PowerChute Business Edition to remain functional, users must … Continue reading →

Last week Microsoft “Windows Genuine Advantage” was enforced on Windows Update sites and I posted a story about it. Since that post 13% of my traffic was to that story, roughly 20GB of traffic went to the people who showed … Continue reading →

Took a few days off to finalize some internal cleanup and do a technical seminar in South Florida, so here are a few things that showed up on my radar: Eric Ligman’s Webcasts Eric is the Microsoft smallbiz guy (or … Continue reading →

.. that’s just a little bit more than the SLA will allow. Reboot time, YEEHAW! Remember that every second Tuesday of the month is the official Microsoft patch-day. There are 6 updates (some critical) so plan/announce the maintenance window because … Continue reading →

So I’ve skipped one live event in close to two years and the bad feedback pours in from South Florida. Apparently more than a few of you found the TS2 content for August/September quite weak which in its own is … Continue reading →

Yes, again. I’ve got some bad news for those of you still with the sour taste in your mouth from XP Service Pack 2…. Service Pack 3 for Windows XP is coming and you need to get ready. If you … Continue reading →