Microsoft have long tried to get customers to buy into Software Assurance so that the customers can get the latest products and pay for them in advance over the course of a few years. In principle this sounds great, but when Microsoft then discontinue a product as they have with Small Business Server, the make good offer is the key to how customers will perceive their … [Read more...]
Error 1315 when removing D-Link D-ViewCam
I’ve got a few D-Link cameras around my home and home office, and I’ve played with different software along the way to use them for recording external views from home for security purposes. Recently however I moved the recording functions into my QNAP NAS and therefore have no need for the D-Link software on my computer. When I attempted to remove the D-Link … [Read more...]
Intel Driver Update Utility
I’ve had a few issues with my laptop of late around the networking – both the wireless and wired lan have been playing up. I found a cool utility on Intels website called the Intel Driver Update Utility. This utility runs from a webpage and will install an ActiveX control to allow it to scan your computer. It showed me below that I’m down a few versions in … [Read more...]
Cool Tools from Trend
You know… I’ve been beating on Trend’s door now for some time about a heap of issues… one of them being disk space consumed by Trends Worry-Free Business Security products. I heard rumours that they were working on a tool to resolve this and then found out today via one of the other posters in the community that they had in fact released a tool to solve this nearly a … [Read more...]
Did you know about the SBS 2008 catalogue?
That there is an online catalog of software you can purchase for SBS 2008? Talking today with Dana while I’m here in the USA he mentioned this catalog, and we were all astonished to see that not even the SBS Diva – Susan Bradley was not aware of it either. I was happy to see some of the regular SMB vendors in there such as Calyptix, Backup Assist and of course Scorpion … [Read more...]