Nick Whittome

Yeah, me too!   It happens when you actually setup two accounts in Outlook 2010 to connect to Office 365 outlook.com servers.   It does NOT happen if you open a second mailbox under the first primary one, but less people do that on Outlook 2010. Apparently the fix is coming in Office 365 when they upgrade the servers to Exchange 2010… Read more →

Most people say that I act like a child….    but Microsoft always make me come over all excited when I hear about beta releases of Microsoft Flight (Simulator). I have to say, it seems like only yesterday I was ranting at the MVP summit to Steve Balmer about the companies decision to axe the team making Flight Simulator, so many… Read more →

I had meant to copy this over to my blog last week!    We have had a few sites with this issue, so the more people with this information the better.    Taken straight from The Official SBS Blog. Copy Below: Issue Description and Symptoms: Last Tuesday (9/13/2011), KB2494001 “MS11-074: Description of the security update for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010: September 13,… Read more →

  Today we were setting up a customer with SBS Essentials.   They had a few XP machines that needed to join the SBS Essentials network.   Oddly, they failed after they joined the domain, but tried to install the client connector software. On looking in the logs in:C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftWindows ServerLogs I found this line:ClientSetup: Could not ensure NetTcpPortSharing… Read more →

I had a customer today report that when loading Microsoft Excel 2003 the machine kept prompting for the SKU1CA.CAB file. That pointed me to this article, which turned out to be a dead end…. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896866 The answer, in fact, was to go into the registry of the local machine and browse to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice11.0Delivery{GUID} In here, I changed the CDCache from… Read more →

Much fanfare, party hats, whistles….. massive advertising….. Office 365 is here….  but is it? Right now, as I type this I am on the phone to Microsoft Online Services technical support whom obviously have had completely ZERO, nil, nada training in BPOS to Office 365 migrations.   Worse, they are obviously embarrassed about it. Simple example…  I have a small customer… Read more →

…especially considering the client the OEM products are aimed at. Over this holiday, I have helped my Mum setup a new home PC.   Two full days I have been at it.   Its not that it would not have worked out of the box, but it would have simply not been “right”.   Firstly, the computer is an excellent one apart from… Read more →

Today I noticed that a lot of upgraded SBS 2011 Sites (from migrated 2008 and 2003) that we come across have a lot of old group policy settings.    I therefore thought it might be helpful for some of you SBS admins to have this information to hand. These are the default SBS2011 Group Policy settings….  if you spot any mistakes, drop me a line… Read more →

Well, by now you have probably had this problem if you are reading this.   Windows 7 SP1 is crashing on bootup on Dell, HP and Acer OEM installs of Windows. This is a terrible problem, and I am not sure if I blame HP, Dell, Acer or Microsoft.   But I can say this…. Microsoft are the only ones being helpful!  … Read more →

OK, this isn’t listed anywhere on GFI’s website, and until it is, at least you can find the info here. If you have a firewall policy in place restricting internet access but still want to allow the GFIMAX agent to run, you need to allow access to: upload1.systemmonitor.co.uk   94.236.25.147 upload2.systemmonitor.co.uk   94.236.25.149 upload3.systemmonitor.co.uk   94.236.25.146 upload4.systemmonitor.co.uk   94.236.25.148   Tags: GFIMAX, Firewall Read more →