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March 2008 - Posts

• Vista and Internet Explorer woes

  I have yet to discover the ability to reinstall/repair internet explorer 7 within Windows Vista. In Windows XP within the program directory, there was an uninstall utility. Although I have never used it, I imagine you can wither completely remove or repair Read More... Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 10:58 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• weird experience using differencing disks in Virtual Server 2005 R2

  I ran into a weird issue today while building my environment for a Windows Server 2003 course I will be teaching next week in BC. I wanted to use a vhd file that I had used previously successfully in Virtual PC. The first issue I encountered was the fact Read More... Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 10:36 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• RSS reader and newsgroup reader in one

  I was looking for a solution to my need to keep up with contributing to Microsoft newsgroups and staying current with the technical information that is out there. I have been procrastinating using RSS for no reason in particular other than I figured I'll Read More... Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 2:10 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• 50028 Courseware for System Center Operation Manager is painful for instructors!

  I have been going through the Courseware Library course 50028 for System Center Operations Manager 2007. My goal was to use this as study material for the exam 70-400 and as preparation to present this course... I have to say I have no idea how this got Read More... Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:43 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• How to delete the content from a Mailbox from the back end in Exchange without deleting/recreating the mailbox itself

  In some cases, mailbox content can become unmanageable. I was performing IT Support in one of my consulting contracts and hapened on this issue. The in-house administrator typically filters through the Quarantine folder and deletes a couple of thousand Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:58 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments Attachment(s): Emptying a Mailbox without deleting.zip

• Disable Undo disks when using the shared SCSI bus in Virtual Server 2005

  This particular tidbit of information may seem obvious enough however unlike in virtual PC where the option is front and center, in virtual server you must dig a little to locate this option. As in virtual PC, this option is "System Specific" Read More... Posted Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:44 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Praise for Microsoft IT Pros

  This post is essentially praise for our Microsoft IT Professionals. These guys do a stand up job. As a Community leader for the Ottawa Windows Server User Group, I contact some of these guys fairly frequently with my nastiest questions... They don't Read More... Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 11:20 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments