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Category Archives: Off-Site News

Download: Microsoft Consulting Services Sequencing Guide

31-Jan-08

Microsoft have posted a guide from Microsoft Consulting Services that details their best practises when sequencing applications.
Properly sequencing applications is the key to a successful Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualizaiton implementation. As such, it’s important to follow Microsoft‟s recommended practices and be aware of the different options when sequencing. This document covers MCS practices for setting [...]

Windows Server 2003 SP2 Administration Tools Pack Available

16-Jan-08

The Service Pack 2 Administration Tools pack has been released as a stand alone package. I’m fairly certain this is new - I don’t recall seeing this download before and the knowledgebase article was updated just yesterday.

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Administration Tools Pack for x86 editions
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Administration Tools [...]

FeedDemon Is Now Free!

09-Jan-08

Great news - the gold standard of RSS/Atom/Feed readers on Windows is now free. I’ve been using FeedDemon for two years now and I can’t praise it enough. The free love continues too, because NewsGator Go! and NetNewsWire are also free.
With FeedDemon, NewsGator Go! and NewsGator Online, I have my feeds synchronised between two laptops, [...]

Remote Access Makes Users Happy

08-Jan-08

HP and the Chief Happiness Officer have teamed up to make the UK happy at work. It’s all about giving users choice and remote access looks to be a big part of that. 800 employees across different companies were ‘experimented’ on and the results speak for themselves:
We built two environments. The first resembled a battery [...]