I’ve wrote previously about my Vista woes along with perhaps 99% of the rest of the planet’s population. Four weeks ago, I pieced together (literally) some older and newer components to build a new machine. Although on paper, its not all that much, but it blows away the old machine. Continuing the Vista plunge, I […]

I’ve been playing around with this thing for a day now. I must say that its very snappy compared to the Vista that usually resides on the box.
My opinion is still not formed on it, but, it looks very promising. Hopefully over the weekend, I can really put it to some tests. Plus, I’ll be […]

I finally took the plunge and did an in place upgrade of XP to Vista Ultimate over the weekend. All in all I must say the upgrade went without a hitch, other than it took hours to do it!
So much has been written about Vista performance, I won’t rehash it here. I’ve tried all the […]

I overheard a conversation at the bookstore about the Microsoft Certified Master Program and just had to take a look. After all, I am very deep into the tech of Microsoft and figured who better to go for it.
After more research however, I’m glad I hesitated before plunking down my $125 application fee. Seems that not only […]

One of our companies has a hugely distributed staff. One of their biggest problems has been collaborating with each other to get things done. Email had been the biggest workhorse in the battle, but that adds a ton of complexity to the situation. There were so many multiple versions of documents it took a lot […]

I’ve resisted the plunge to Office 2007 for months now. I couldn’t see the need of the thing when Office 2003 was still kicking butt for me. I use Project, Outlook, Visio, and Excel daily and Word at least half the week. I also am a fan of open source. Therefore, I’ve been using OpenOffice […]

This post arose out of a situation where I had given some bad poop (Army term for information) about how to control mailbox sizes by OU at Experts Exchange. I was mistakenly thinking of something smelling a lot better!
Any hoots, since I delayed the answer, I wrote this script to accomplish what the guy […]

Recently I ran across an issue that it seems lots of folks have, hidden user mailboxes on Microsoft Exchange. Imagine my surprise when I got that call, “We have hidden users on a server! We must be relaying Spam or something!!” Not knowing more at that moment, I got a little nervous, as I was […]

I’ve said it before here, that Microsoft should just leave the EU. They won’t be happy until Microsoft’s competitiveness is gone, and some half baked software company is out peddling alpha-ware to businesses. Not that Microsoft is clean in that aspect. Vista is proving that!
My real question is, who are they targeting after […]

Bill has RTMed his latest assault vying for world domination. After being asked what I thought about it, as if someone really cares what I think, I thought I would put a few comments here.
Vista is pretty. I don’t like it. I am a command line guy mostly. I can work faster with the CLI […]