Monthly Archives: May 2006

Installing Office 2007 Beta 2 over Office 2003

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Systems Manager SoftGrid 4*

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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We Don’t Need No Stinking Anti-Virus

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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UPHClean 2.x Beta

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Aaron Parker

The User Profile Hive Cleanup Service is a tool that I’ve even been installing on desktops. A beta for version 2.x is underway and Thomas Koetzing has an impressive writeup of the tool on his site here, where you can … Continue reading →

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