Monthly Archives: May 2007

Shockey Monkey – New Web Site, Consulting Best Practice

Posted: 10:31 pm
May 13, 2007
Shockey Monkey
on Shockey Monkey – New Web Site, Consulting Best Practice

As Shockey Monkey project grows, and let’s face it, as there are many of you out there using it and making your living on it the need for a serious site grows. I have worked very hard today to make ShockeyMonkey.com a … Continue reading →

The Seventh Monkey of The Seventh Monkey

Posted: 1:12 am
May 13, 2007
Shockey Monkey
on The Seventh Monkey of The Seventh Monkey

(those of you that picked up on the Iron Maiden reverence, you rock!) Exciting Saturday night of coding and Shockey Monkey deployments. Big thanks to Armen Varjabedian of PropelNet, Robert Muir of Practical IT Services, Ken Edwards of Maverick Mesa … Continue reading →

VladCast Episode 5

Posted: 4:18 pm
May 11, 2007
Vladcast
on VladCast Episode 5

VladCast 5, the SMB ITPRO world condensed into a loud 5 minute podcast: – Less than two weeks left to get to SBS Migration Conference– Interested in Cougar? Ask your SBS group leader for a beta invite.– Changes with Longhorn– … Continue reading →

HP Mobility Misses Again: No WM6 upgrade for iPaq

Posted: 12:43 am
May 11, 2007
IT Business, Mobility
on HP Mobility Misses Again: No WM6 upgrade for iPaq

The more Carly changes, the more they HP the same. While iMate is well on its way to provide the third OS upgrade to their iMate JasJar PocketPC (from 2003 to WM5 and now to WM6) the HP strikes again – … Continue reading →

Shockey Monkey – Development Center Added

Posted: 11:22 pm
May 10, 2007
Shockey Monkey
on Shockey Monkey – Development Center Added

The next time you login to Shockey Monkey support portal at OWN you’ll notice a new tab. Development. The Development tab is a bug and feature wishlist tracker that will allow us to take public feedback on features you are … Continue reading →

Microsoft starts dropping Longhorn features

Posted: 4:36 pm
May 10, 2007
Microsoft
2 Comments

Microsoft has announced that several cool virtualization features will be dropped from what was promised for Longhorn release. Bink quotes a seemingly angry quote complaining about the lack of live migration, no hot-adding of resources, CPU core limitations, etc. I’m … Continue reading →

Mailing List Recommendations – Help!

Posted: 11:08 am
May 9, 2007
Vladville
4 Comments

This worked really well for the SBS Show but as I put more and more stuff out directly here on Vladville I’m finally starting to give in to the constant requests for a mailing list – again. The reason Vladville … Continue reading →

Is that another Radhakrishna on your QC team?

Posted: 10:49 am
May 9, 2007
System Admin
on Is that another Radhakrishna on your QC team?

Second month in a row without a major Microsoft patch incident – patches apply properly, systems reboot as intended, no BSoD’s, no application incompatibilities. Just like it’s supposed to work. Are we starting to see a trend in improved patch … Continue reading →

Vlad Megapresentation Tonight – You’re invited

Posted: 1:16 pm
May 8, 2007
Exchange, ExchangeDefender, OwnWebNow, Shockey Monkey
5 Comments

I was invited to present content at Sacramento SBS User Group and Kansas City SBS User Group a while ago. I didn’t add either to my calendar, so when both Karl and Jason emailed me yesterday to see if I … Continue reading →

First BIG loss for Exchange, HUGE loss for Microsoft

Posted: 7:20 am
May 7, 2007
Exchange, Microsoft
on First BIG loss for Exchange, HUGE loss for Microsoft

It sucks to lose, but when you lose big it makes you scratch your head about your approach. May 6, 2007: Biggest Exchange loss in over 10 years. (at least in Vladville) Comcast chose Zimbra to power it’s SmartZone portal. … Continue reading →