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As part of the march onward towards Windows 7, I turned my Windows 7 RC box into a dual boot system with Vista as the other operating system. Normally you’d install Vista first and then 7, but I already had 7 on the box and didn’t want to reinstall it. So I installed Vista on…

Where do I start? I had prior experience of the full edition of Adobe Premiere, version 5.x. This impressed as a dependable, powerful software package on a PC, considering that Premiere was originally developed for the Mac. Premiere 5 was stable, and it did a lot of good things and it did them well. So…

Back in March, seven months ago, I wrote that I was putting Vista onto my home PC. Today I reinstalled XP instead. The main reason for doing this is that there is no reasonable upgrade path to Windows 7 for these old Intel 915 boards, and that is because there is no Vista driver produced…

Our remote access setup through ISA 2006 and EX 2007 is getting closer. There are many steps for the uninitiated that have to be completed to commission an ISA server and secure an Exchange server for web / remote access. We determined first of all that, once ISA was more or less ready to go,…

This is a subject I have written about numerous times before. Here are the previous articles: http://nzschooltech.blogspot.com/2009/01/mapping-printers-and-drives-through.html http://nzschooltech.blogspot.com/2008/08/pushing-printer-settings-to-client-pcs.html http://nzschooltech.blogspot.com/2008/02/using-loopback-policy-to-set-per.html Here is a brief history of managed printer deployment options in Windows: Prior to Windows Server 2003 R2, administrators mass deployed printers to workstations using logon scripts (VBScript etc). WS2003 R2 introduced Print Management via Group…

My previous articles on this subject are published here and here. Our site experienced considerable difficulties in making School Management Systems’ Integris 6.90.xx function successfully on Windows Vista even though the vendor does not have a history of problems. The majority of difficulties to date are on 32 bit Vista systems. We do not have…

The NZ Ministry of Education has renewed the Microsoft Schools Agreement for New Zealand schools for 2010-2012. Whilst I have yet to see the agreement, it continues the trend of these agreements and will provide welcome continuity for school administrators and IT staff. The new agreement provides effective transitions for most existing software packages whilst…

ISSUE: When you install Exchange Management Console for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 onto a desktop PC running Windows 7 RC or Windows 7 Gold, you may experience error messages when attempting to access the Client Access item of Server Configuration in the console tree. The messages received are similar to the following:   The following…

RSAT is the Remote Server Administration Tools, which replaced the Adminkit that was supplied in Windows Server 2003. RSAT is for managing a Windows Server 2008 box in Vista. The RSAT and the related Hyper-V management component were updated when SP2 of Vista was released. I found a lot of difficulty trying to locate the…

Although this is only the fourth day, it is Friday today so it is the last day of the week. The old 915 bit the dust and got binned, the “new” 915 got a fresh Vista installation on its second 80 GB HDD after all attempts to restore the original installation were unsuccessful. Obviously I…