Monthly Archive: July 2008

Jul 30 2008

Windows Home Server

  I’ve spent the last couple of evenings playing around with my latest purchase, HP MediaSmart Server. I’m pretty happy with it, I bought the 1TB version. I’ve had a few issues with the setup.  The first being that I’m running Vista 64bit and the software (HP and Microsoft) out the box isn’t doesn’t work …

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Jul 29 2008

Microsoft Surface Sphere

  This looks cool..

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Jul 29 2008

The "Mojave Experiment"

  The “Mojave Experiment” This is part of Microsoft’s comeback marketing for Vista.  All we need now are these videos to be shown on TV for a period of a few weeks talking about Mojave and then reviled them that it’s Vista and then talk about the features. I like this, much better than I’m …

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Jul 11 2008

SBS CAL Resets

  This has happened to me on a number of SBS boxes whit low hard drive space, generally on drive C: SBS resets the cal count to 5! We have just had a customer call and this has happened to.  Normally we backup the CALS using the built in backup utility within SBS Console. Found …

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Jul 01 2008

Error message when you connect to an instance of SQL Server: "Cannot open user default database"

  I received this on our SQL Server, which I had to fix this evening as I have a bust day tomorrow….. any how here’s the MSKB.

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Jul 01 2008

My 64 Bit Nightmare continues…..

  VMWare player crashes when you try and run Virtual PC along side…. great.  When I try to open the VHD, it can’t convert.  So now I have to spend time installing Windows XP/Vista clients, which I already have into VMWare….. I’m actually thinking of building a new PC to run Windows Server 2008 on …

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