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Monthly Archives: May 2006

Installing Office 2007 Beta 2 over Office 2003

27-May-06

If you currently have Office 2003 (or any Office 2003 component such as Visio or Publisher) installed you’ll run into some problems if you upgrade to Office 2007 Beta 2*. The Office 2003 components will not be completely removed and you may have issues such as returning shortcuts or Outlook add-ins trying to reinstall eventually [...]

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Microsoft Systems Manager SoftGrid 4*

23-May-06

Now that Microsoft intends to expand their virtualisation strategy with the purchase of Softricity, I expect that we will see a few things with SoftGrid:
1. SMS will be the primary deployment and management tool. I presume the existing SoftGrid Server will be no more and SMS will be the only server component for SoftGrid;
2. No [...]

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Sizing Terminal Servers and the 4GB memory limit(?)

22-May-06

Always an interesting discussion around the traps is that of how much memory to install in Terminal Servers. Due to the nature of Terminal Server and limitations of the 32bit architecture, kernel address space will be exhausted before a Terminal Server will run out of RAM (depending on the number of users, of course). Brian [...]

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We Don’t Need No Stinking Anti-Virus

22-May-06

I’ve recently had conversations about running anti-virus software on some specialised servers. Specifically Windows Servers running ISA Server 2004 or VMware Server (or Virtual Server). The argument for installing anti-virus software on these servers is to ensure they are protected against viruses and worms. I’ve been arguing against installing anti-virus software to ensure maximum performance. [...]

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