Archive for November, 2008

Remove Live Messenger Ads

If you are connected to Live Messenger 24 hours a day like I am, you are undoubtedly annoyed by those ads down the bottom that pop-up and make a noise if your mouse cursor happens to go anywhere near them..

A simple way to get rid of them is with APatch (www.apatch.org). Download it, run it [...]

Leave a Comment

OCS 2007 R2

Microsoft have announced the release of Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Customers will be able to purchase the release, currently in private beta testing, beginning in February 2009.
A few of the new features are:

Dial-in audioconferencing
Desktop sharing
Persistent group chat
Attendant console and delegation
APIs and Visual Studio integration

For more info, click here

Leave a Comment

ISA 2006 – High MSDE memory usage

I came across this issues on a ISA 2006 proxy server the other day. Basically, if you are logging to a MSDE database you may experience high memory usage by SQL server because the amount of physical memory that is allocated for SQL Server is not limited by default.
It is possible to limit the amount [...]

Leave a Comment

OS X Cant write to external disk

Err.. yeah.. so, there you are, you need to copy something from your apple mac to your external disk, but it wont allow you.. the disk is not full and it works perfectly on windows.??
I recently encountered this problem, the drive was formatted as NTFS (and why wouldn’t it be?) turns out macs can read [...]

Leave a Comment

WIFI and Hyper-V

Anyone who has played around with server 2008 and hyper-v would have noticed that you are not able to bind a virtual network to a wireless network adapter and more than likely (although i have not personally tested it) a 3g or other mobile broadband card. I guess the reason for this is that most [...]

Leave a Comment