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Looks like i lied....

When I said I wouldn't post here anymore.The truth is that my men-talhealth website is still a good idea but I don't have enough material to post there consistently. Also, I like writing tech stuff - I now just have a different agenda to before.That in Read More
posted Monday, March 31, 2008 11:16 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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My Final Geekdojo Post

As some of you may already know, I am no longer working at Content Master. Lot's of things have happened to me in my personal life in the last year or two that have caused me to re-evaluate my life direction. In light of this, I've made the decision Read More
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:11 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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MOM is Dead - long live SCOM!

I'm currently working on some Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 training, which was launched at MMS this week. It's a fabulous product with several improvements over MOM 2005. If you're interested, there is a raft of webcasts available (and there Read More
posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:56 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Troubleshooting iTunes Installation on Windows Vista

So... I have Vista Ultimate RTM installed on both my home and work laptops and decided that I want to install iTunes. iTunes has been my media player of choice for some time now. I remembered trying to install it on RC1 and RC2 and it failing to install Read More
posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:08 PM by adam | 3 Comments
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How to re-create the show desktop shortcut

I haven't come across it often but Andy just aksed me how to re-create the show desktop shortcut in the quick launch toolbar. For anyone that's been searching for this, the answer is here Read More
posted Friday, November 17, 2006 1:45 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Virtual Server 2005 now available for free!

This nearly made me fall of my chair. Microsoft have made Virtual Server 2005 R2 available for nothing. Granted they had little choice since VMWare did the same a few weeks ago but great news nonetheless. Read More
posted Monday, April 03, 2006 10:48 PM by adam | 2 Comments
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Content Master is Recruiting

We are currently experiencing one of the strongest spells of sustained growth in our history.  As such, we have some full time vacancies in the following areas: 5 x IT Pros –  We are looking for experienced IT professionals with excellent written Read More
posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:46 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Virtual Server VMRC connection syntax

This is mainly just a reminder for me but others may find it useful. I'm using Virtual Server as the virtualization environment for my current project and the VMRC isnt as 'user friendly' as Virtual PC. When you open it, you need to put in a path to Read More
posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:48 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Fragmented RAM

I was talking to Anthony yesterday about RAM fragmentation and remembered a tool I came across a while back, RAM Idle Pro. I reinstalled it and in the hour or so its been running, its taken my free RAM from 168Mb to 564Mb (of a possible 2Gb) and my machine Read More
posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:00 PM by adam | 2 Comments
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Content Master going 64-Bit

Anthony blogged recently about our transition to 64-bit servers at Content Master in preparation for Exchange 12. The cost of these servers is not prohibitive in comparison to their 32-bit counterparts so its probably a good idea to start considering Read More
posted Monday, February 06, 2006 5:41 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Excellent Exchange 12 Overview

I know this is an old one but its been on my list to blog for a while. James Whelan has an excellent overview of the features in Exchange 12. Read More
posted Monday, February 06, 2006 5:28 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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More on MSH (Monad) and Exchange Scripting in general

Since my last post on the subject, I've been doing some research into using MSH for various tasks and have some additional resources I'd like to share with you. First up is Glen's Messaging Dev Blog. Glen has lots of posts on various scripting tasks Read More
posted Monday, February 06, 2006 1:56 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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New SMS and MOM community site

SMSMOM.com is a new community forum for SMS and MOM users founded by Duncan McAlynn, an SMS MVP. It's still a fledgeling community at the moment but the more people that use it, the more value it will be to everyone. Read More
posted Monday, February 06, 2006 1:05 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Compact DBA

Compact DBA is a Windows Mobile App that lets you perform remote monitoring of SQL Servers. Now an Exchange server version would be cool. Anyone know of (or want to build) one? Read More
posted Friday, February 03, 2006 2:59 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Monad in Exchange 12

I was talking to Eileen yesterday about various bits and pieces (more later). She's just returned from internal E12 training in Redmond and she made the point that all Exchange admins considering upgrading should start learning Monad (formerly Longhorn Read More
posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:58 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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