I recently bought a device to monitor our household energy consumption. After looking at a few I lumped for a CurrentCost Envi. this is a great little device that comes in two parts – a transmitter...

This post is for my own benefit more than anything. I frequently have to ‘google’ for the instructions to make a bootable USB drive to install some version of Windows from. So, to save time in the ...

After a brief hiatus (i.e. hectic work schedule for a few months), I am back to reading. The list is currently :- ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by the guys at 37 Signals Linchpin: A...

This is a pretty obscure gotcha.. I was trying to export an Edge Subscription XML file from my Edge Transport server (a demo Exchange 2010 environment) There is no GUI for this in Exchange Managem...

It seems that ‘Document Access’ from Outlook Web Access (OWA) is no longer supported in Exchange/OWA 2010. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998911.aspx#Disc2007to2010 However, the...

I was discussing googlability – a new word I made up meaning ‘the ability to find via Google’ – of our knowledgebase with one of the technical guys at work. It seems that we seldom get matches in G...

I was working on an old (classic) ASP page the other day. It was pulling data from an Access database file and using an ODBC driver to get the connection. It was working fine on a Windows 2003 ser...

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 be...

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 se...

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 W...