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I've just spent some time creating a new Virtual PC image running Windows Vista Business Edition. The reason for it is I want a base image that I can use for installing beta software, development tools and the like. Whenever a new beta release of a product comes out (e.g. SQL Server 2008) I can just take a copy of my base image from ...

One week ago we released v1.0 of SQL Server Monitor Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar. Today we are making available v1.0.001 and as you can probably guess from the version number, its not a whole lot different! Quite simply, John has fixed a bug where the database name was not being displayed after a reboot. Get the latest and greatest from ...

It gives me great pleasure to announce that as of today, Conchango are making available version 1 of our SQL Server Monitor Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar. The gadget does exactly what it says on the tin; it monitors a specified SQL Server database for various metrics and displays them on the Windows Vista Sidebar. It is provided ...

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 ...

Screenshot of AD Group Policy for Windows Update

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 ...