Yearly Archives: 2007

Are we apologists for Microsoft?

Friends, IT Business
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Untitled document Vijay asks: Are we apologists for Microsoft? Yes. Yes, we are. Absolutely, totally, without a doubt. Please go read what Vijay has to say. It is a very positive look at the state of Microsoft partnership, to say … Continue reading

Office 2007 MIME types for Apache

Linux, Microsoft, System Admin
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An interesting bug came up in the OWN Forums over the weekend, when downloading Office 2007 Word (docx) document from an Apache hosted site, the file either comes up garbled (application/octet-stream) or opens up a zip folder. This is usually the case when you have … Continue reading

OEM Tricks: Help, I’ve run out of 3.5″ slots in my case!

Gadgets, Vladville
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Believe it or not, this question comes up more often than anything else in the ITPRO circles – “I need to add more hard drives to my PC but I don’t have any more 3.5” slots. This happens to be … Continue reading

ExchangeDefender for Service Providers (Video)

Exchange, ExchangeDefender
on ExchangeDefender for Service Providers (Video)

Untitled document ExchangeDefender service providers have been playing with the new MSP control panels we’ve developed for the v3 release. I’ve unfortunately been very much under the weather but I took a moment earlier tonight to record a brief instructional video. … Continue reading

SMB IT PRO Conference in New Orelans Hotel Sold Out

Events
on SMB IT PRO Conference in New Orelans Hotel Sold Out

I got some bad news this Thursday when I called in to make a hotel reservation for Jeff Middleton’s IT PRO conference in New Orleans – the hotel has sold out its block of rooms at the Astor Crowne Plaza … Continue reading

Cluster-like Non-Clusters for SMB Messaging

Exchange
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Courtesy of two empty bottles of Nyquil comes the first long article I have written in well over a year. To be honest I was under an NDA for most of that time and couldn’t write about it even if I … Continue reading

Where in the world is Vlad

Vladville
on Where in the world is Vlad

Everyone has been asking where I’ve been.. Yes, I know Dev / Exchange Connections is in town, yes I got the invitation, yes… But folks, I’ve been friggin dying over here. I was leaning over my laptop the other night and my … Continue reading

Compiz and Beryl Merge

Linux, Open Source
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Perhaps one of the best developments in the Linux GUI world in quite some time, two of the biggest projects that bring eye-candy to Linux are getting together! If you’ve never seen Beryl in action just search YouTube for it, it … Continue reading

Patch Tuesday: Cousin Joel Returns

Security, System Admin
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(Note: All Windows Server post-SP2 issues will be refered to as Cousin Joel edition) Microsoft released an out-of-band patch yesterday to cover the recent .ani/.cur exploits. These are causing confirmed issues with Windows Server 2003 SP2, SBS 2003 SP2, Windows … Continue reading

Consulting Tips: BTFS

IT Business, SMB
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If anyone ever develops a Vlad wind-up doll it better be able to say “Bring the f… solution!”; So pardon me if I repeat this again. One of my partners wrote in today to say the following: “When we talked Friday I … Continue reading