I’m prevented from talking publicly about the next version of Microsoft Server products, but now that Microsoft have announced the public beta of Windows Home Server aka Vail, I can at least talk about it :-) I would HIGHLY recommend that ALL SMB IT Professionals look closely at the Vail beta. Why? Well think about the move to the cloud for many clients and about … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2010
Upgrading to Office 2010
I’m working from home today and therefore decided it would be a good time to upgrade my laptop which has been running the final beta of Office 2010 to the RTM version that I can get from MSDN. I attempted an inplace upgrade, but was stopped as this is not be permitted. I then removed the beta and installed the RTM of Office 2010. I ran Outlook and it quite … [Read more...]
Bad website design with automatic language selection
Many websites are designed to allow for multiple languages. They often will detect where in the world you are and adjust the language settings to suit that aspect of it. I had not thought too much about it until now. I’ve been in Taipei, Taiwan for the last week and I’ve attempted to use some common sites to do various things. I’ve found that many of the … [Read more...]
What is GenCRCDiff.exe?
GenCRCDiff.exe is an executable file used by Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 6.0 (WFBS 6.0). It’s part of the SmartScan server technology that allows Trend to distribute smaller pattern files to the client machines rather than the larger full size pattern files. To do this, it downloads a file from Trend Micro servers and then runs this GenCRCDiff process … [Read more...]
Trend Micro visit – Day 4
Phew… the last day at Trend Micro. I’ll do a summary post in the next day or two after I’ve had a chance to process things a little bit. Today was some free time for us to play with WFBS 7.0. In typical reseller fashion though, we took things on a different tangent and ended up taking over the session and showing the team some of the really cool things that we think … [Read more...]