NZ Tekonverse

One of the useful features of Windows 7 is XP Mode, but hitherto it was only available for computers which had hardware assisted virtualisation. This meant I couldn’t use it because even though this PC is only 2 years old, the Intel CPU is a model that doesn’t have vT support. MS has recently changed…

Well, our migration is almost complete. We are still working on a few small things here and there. There has been one very significant issue that a number of our users have experienced and that has been that their addresses which they used in the old domain have been changed into funny addresses that look…

Last time I posted about some of the early steps of getting mailboxes across to Live@Edu. As of this moment I have not had a response to my query raised with Outlook Live as to the Import-Mailbox functionality. We have migrated all mailboxes manually by setting up Outlook to connect to the account and then…

If you have a registered Internet domain name and you want to provide email addresses to your users based on that domain name, you have basically two options: Provide an on-premises mail service and infrastructure Utilise externally provisioned (hosted) mail services Historically, the second option has only been viable with a fairly small number of…

This has been a lot of fun, from looking at how to get an SMS to do reporting, new SMS developments and an NComputing thin client terminal. The SMS market in NZ is having some interesting developments as vendors look to the next generation of web-based systems. Integris’s G2 product which is now standardised across…

Several years ago, NComputing released a series of thin client terminals suitable for the education market. These are of two types, the X series connect to a PCI card in the host computer and there can be 3 or 5 terminals connected. The L series connect over a network to a remote host server. The…

Rant of the week, and I’ve written about this one before. There must be, for any administrator, situations where you want people to be able to open, read and save files, but not to delete them. You want to protect shared pools of files against accidental deletion, but otherwise people can do anything else sensible…

Before Windows Server 2008 your Windows domain could only have one password policy for the whole domain, even though the password policy settings appear in any GPO. Only the settings in the Default Domain policy would be actually applied. One of the advances of Windows Server 2008 is to allow multiple password policies to be…

Since the Windows 7 RC came out we have run it in a variety of systems. While it is good, it is not the gold release version of Windows 7 and has a few bugs. And from March 1, it will start to shut down every two hours on PCs where it is still installed.…

Note that this could happen if the folder exists but the permissions are set such that the folder is inaccessible to some degree. Experience has taught me that Office suite programs are pretty poor at handling permission restrictions like a user has only Read and Execute rights on a folder. This latest problem with Word…