From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Things will be a little quiet around here for the next few weeks as my wife and I make the move to London. I will have sporadic Internet access during that time but will endeavor to answer e-mails as soon as I can. Once we get settled I’ll be able to get back to posting. [...]

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With the release of Presentation Server 4.5, Citrix have realigned the product editions, dropping Standard Edition while adding a new high end edition call Bling.., oops I mean Platinum Edition. But as James pointed out to me yesterday, the Presentation Server installation media still includes the ability to install Standard Edition: Looks like someone in [...]

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The Short NAP is a (semi-regular) quick list of Microsoft Network Access Protection and Server/Domain Isolation related links from around the web. Here are links for Thursday the 14th of June 2007: Citrix Acquires NAC Vendor: Citrix to enter the NAC space. Hopefully they’ll see the light when Windows Server 2008 is released, I really [...]

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Dear Diary, Progress on the migration has been a little slow over the past week given a few other things I’ve had to pay attention to, but I’m now in a position to move a small group of mailboxes to finalise testing before a mass migration of mailboxes. I have tested mail flow in and [...]

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For anyone deploying Adobe Reader, the direct download links for Adobe Reader are far more useful than the standard download that attempts sell you on how great Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition and the Google Toolbar are. Ideally you should be obtaining a Distribution Agreement for Adobe Reader if you are looking to distribute the [...]

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Note, this post is now out of date; for an Adobe Reader 9 version of this post, go here. Deployment of Adobe Reader in an enterprise environment has been much simplified since version 6, however there is still some important preparation before you think about deploying version 8. Adobe have compiled information on enterprise deployment [...]

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Adobe have released version 8.1 of Reader that includes updates for Office 2007 and Windows Vista, including preview in Outlook 2007. I’ll update my Adobe Reader deployment tools as soon as I can, however I don’t see any reason why my existing transform files won’t work with this version my existing transform files won’t work with this version, [...]

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Dear Diary, Since I’ve got the CCR cluster running I’ve run some performance tests with JetStress to get an idea of how the disk subsytem will cope. I ran a 24 hour test with 6 databases of 60 GB each. JetStress has returned the tests with a pass. The test resulted in an average CPU usage [...]

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