I found out over the weekend that Microsoft have released the Windows Live Writer. Currently I use Word 2007 to do all my writing and publishing to this blog and it's as easy as writing the content and pressing the Publish button instead of a Print button. Ok - so Live Writer has been released - you can get it here. What this means is that you no longer need to have the … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2007
Groove on multiple computers not synchronising correctly.
I've been trying to get into Groove and things were working pretty well. I use it on my desktop and my laptop with all workspaces shared between the two of them. However recently I got a new laptop and desktop. They didn't come at the same time, but with a few months between them. I got the new desktop first and set it up. I exported my groove account info to a file which … [Read more...]
The product formerly known as Centro gets a name
Microsoft today announced that the mid market server product they have been working codenamed "Centro" now has a real name. They've called it Essential Business Server or EBS for short. Whilst the product is still in beta, there are details available here … [Read more...]
I am not worthy, but Thank you CRN.
I was invited to attend the inaugural CRN Awards here in Sydney last Friday night as a guest of Trend Micro. This is their first awards ceremony here in Australia but their UK and USA counterparts have been doing them for many years. As part of the awards, they had two Channel Champions, one from the Vendor / Distributor channel and another from the Reseller channel. The … [Read more...]
Damien says This is like Geek Porn
In our office, one of our guys Damien, is our resident coder/programmer guru. I showed him a book today "Windows Command-Line Administrators Pocket Consultant" from MS Press ISBN 978-0-7356-2038-4. This book is one I'm reading right now and shows how with nothing more than the tools that come with Windows 2003 and the Resource kit, you can script all kinds of cool things. … [Read more...]