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That's a question I started asking myself yesterday as I read this post from Yaron Goland. Here's a sprinkling from that entry:Sigh…. I know… I know… Microsoft… evil… proprietary… no cross platform… Windows über alles… etc. Whatever. Look folks, this is really easy. I work for ...

I have been testing speech recognition in Windows Vista and so far I am fairly impressed.   I managed to write this blog entry using Windows Live Writer without use of the keyboard or mouse.  OK, it took quite long time but I got there in the end and I am hoping that over time it gets a lot easier.  As you can see it includes ...

We had a problem this week when Exchange 2003 Server ActiveSync decided to break after we did a couple of Windows Updates.  The funny thing is that the ActiveSync stopped working on a SINGLE Backend Server, and none of the updates were Exchange or even IIS updates!  Users on the affected backend server just started getting ...

Today I finally got an Adminpak installed on my Vista laptop!! Up until today I've been using an additional Windows Virtual PC - which I'll probably keep for now - running on my laptop to do normal day-to-day admin stuff.  I have installed on there my Exchange, SQL and other application tools, resource kits and little extras you ...

As we slowly start to roll out a couple of Vista RTM deployments to some of our developers it transpires there's a couple of little niggles that not many people have taken note of: 1. Last night Keni tried to install Visual Studio, but it kept failing saying it can't copy a certain file.  Even though ...

Right now I'm in the process of upgrading a Dell Latitude D820 to Windows Vista RC2 - currently running RC1.  I installed RC1 Build 5600 as a clean install about 2 weeks ago. Now I know that most self-respecting IT bods will never really do in-place upgrades .. I figured lets try the "what-if" factor. When I tried to kick ...

In a previous post I mentioned how ''KB888619 Breaks OWA on Exchange 2003'' and how confused I was by the fact that the update in question was displayed on the Windows Update site on the one server, but not the others.  After a couple of clicks today I found that there's actually two versions of the update sites: Windows Update - The ...

  Another Exchange Windows Update problem we encountered this week... After loading the WindowsUpdate site I noticed that it was recommending an Exchange Update (KB888619) on the Windows Update.  Now Exchange Updates are not something that you generally find on Windows Updates. (See image on the left) After ...

I starting installing Beta 1 of Windows Vista - aka Longhorn - today using MS's Virtual PC. I hit a couple of snags even before the Virtual PC booted, so I thought I'd share a couple hints and tips: 1. You won't be able to mount the ISO as-is in Virtual PC - It moans about saying the file is not a valid ISO. Here you have two options: a. You ...