Looks like Microsoft is adding to its VoIP offerings. Skype should make a nice addition to their recent push with the combined services of OCS and Live Meeting in Lync. Should be an interesting day to watch the MSFT stock. The price tag keeps going up. First I heard $7 billion. Then $8.5 billion. Yikes! [...]
Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool Beta Released
On Friday (May 6th), Microsoft released the Enterprise Beta Readiness Tool for Office365. As the name implies, this tool is meant to do a quick readiness check on your environment. Upon execution, it will automatically extract the files to C:\office365reskit and launch the app within IE. If you system has IE locked down, this may [...]
Search Engine Un-Optimization
I don’t think I’ll be taking business week’s advice. According to my RSS feed, for proper optimization, you should repost each post at least five times to get good SEO. I think I’ll categorize this advice in binspam.
vbScript: Tweaking Power Settings (disabling hibernate and standby)
As is often the case in IT, when you need to push out that software package or migrate that computer to a new domain, it isn’t on the network. This has come up several times in the past year and I wanted to share my solution. Now, this isn’t the “greenest” solution because this will [...]
.Net Classes within VBScript: Doing Randomness and Arrays the Easy Way
Back in 2007, the Microsoft Scripting Guys posted a article titled “Hey, Scripting Guy! Be Careful What You Say.” This article changed everything in the way I scripted because it should how simply you can access some .Net classes through COM callable wrappers. The two they focus on are “System.Random” and “System.Collections.ArrayList”. 1 2 Set [...]
Webcast: Dell, Hyper-V and System Center Goodness
Removing Virtualization Barriers and Simplifying Management with A Frameless Storage Solution and Microsoft System Center Virtualization is no longer just an IT buzzword –your customers are asking for it, and you’re ready to deliver. But with the different types of storage hardware and protocol choices in the market, are you prepared to offer the best [...]
Aggregate and Translate: Moving to Google Reader
For years, I have been bouncing between RSSOwl, FeedReader and FeedDemon. I have built the ultimate feed list for the technologies, blogs and news sources I care about. The real beauty of RSS is it enables one to quickly get up to date on news and industry trends without wasting time. New posts are there, [...]
Windows Phone
Why can’t MS add Tasks to ActiveSync on the 7 platform? If the leading smartphone platform Blackberry offers it and it was available on WinMo 6.5, why isn’t it here now? This is the only thing keeping a Blackberry in my pocket. 10 April 2011: Same boat now with my Android. Sigh…
REWORK: Why My Team Rocks!
Thank you IC, GK, BM, SR, AW, TP and CH for never questioning my dreams and never telling me it won’t work. Your encouragement feeds me and gives me hopes for a brighter future.
vbScript: Quickly determine architecture
I’ve been using a routine to determine 64-bit v 32-bit workstations for some time checking the registry for the PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE in the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment path. However, this was proving to be error prone. So, I just gave up that method altogether since all Windows x64 editions have a “%SystemDrive%\Program Files (x86)” directory. This makes it [...]
