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I ran into some trouble with Hyper V the other day – I had booted from a VHD into Windows Server 2008 R2 and was trying to start a VM – I got the usual ‘The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running” error.I had…
Yesterday as I was trying to install Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, I got a pretty strange issue. Everything worked well up till the ‘installing mailbox role’ phase – it seemed to fail pretty quickly when it got there. Subsequent retries also failed (quickly) with exactly the…
It is official, dual booting is now dead – Boot from VHD is the new king. On my flight to BoS2009, I was inadvertently reliving some nostalgic milestones from the past 10 nay 20 years. I had my Windows 7 laptop, booted from a VHD (see Scott’s great post for…
Recently I have been working with DotNetNuke. This is a superb open source CMS platform running on ASP.NET with a SQL back end, simple to install, easy to use and there is a thriving community around it. It is also available in a ‘Professional’ version which costs around £2000 per…
One of the things I (for I read we) have been working on recently (at my day job) is looking at the ‘Store Compression’ feature in Exchange 2010. Store Compression is a new feature in Exchange 2010 whereby some of the content of an email object is compressed as it…
Disclaimer: Screenscraping results like this probably contravening Google’s Terms of Use (or something) and I do not advocate that you do it – this is purely hypothetical, if I did want to do it, this is how I would go about it 😉 Further Disclaimer: The results page formats could…
Yesterday on Leon’s Blog, secretGeek, I noticed they had released v3.4 of TimeSnapper. One of the features that caught my eye was the ability to develop/add plugins to it. I love plugins, I’ve written plugins for Windows Live Writer, Outlook, dasBlog, and more. Everything should have an SDK or plugin’able…
After upgrading to Windows 7 on my laptop I found that I could no longer sync with my Sony Ericsson X1 (Windows Mobile 6.1) Phone. It didn’t even seem to be charging (over USB). Looking in the system Device Manager I found a missing driver for the ‘Generic RNDIS’ device.…
I am loving the Sticky Notes app in Windows 7. The only issue I have with it is the dreadful font it uses – well my issue is not the font, it is the fact that you cannot change it to something more ‘normal’. I mean, I can easily change…
Apparently I am rapidly becoming ‘Geo Guy’. I seem to be adding Geo / Gps support and plug-ins to everything I use… I just finished adding ‘Insert GPS Link’ support to PockeTwit (a great little Windows Mobile twitter client – really, go and get a copy now…) Previously I added…