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  • World’s most disappointing video editing software… Adobe Premiere Elements

    Where do I start? I had prior experience of the full edition of Adobe Premiere, version 5.x. This impressed as a dependable, powerful software package on a PC, considering that Premiere was originally developed for the Mac. Premiere 5 was stable, and it did a lot of good things and it did them well. So…

  • Back to XP at home

    Back in March, seven months ago, I wrote that I was putting Vista onto my home PC. Today I reinstalled XP instead. The main reason for doing this is that there is no reasonable upgrade path to Windows 7 for these old Intel 915 boards, and that is because there is no Vista driver produced…

  • Getting There: Remote Access with ISA 2006, EX2007 etc etc

    Our remote access setup through ISA 2006 and EX 2007 is getting closer. There are many steps for the uninitiated that have to be completed to commission an ISA server and secure an Exchange server for web / remote access. We determined first of all that, once ISA was more or less ready to go,…

  • The Mess of Managing Printers through Group Policy

    This is a subject I have written about numerous times before. Here are the previous articles: http://nzschooltech.blogspot.com/2009/01/mapping-printers-and-drives-through.html http://nzschooltech.blogspot.com/2008/08/pushing-printer-settings-to-client-pcs.html http://nzschooltech.blogspot.com/2008/02/using-loopback-policy-to-set-per.html Here is a brief history of managed printer deployment options in Windows: Prior to Windows Server 2003 R2, administrators mass deployed printers to workstations using logon scripts (VBScript etc). WS2003 R2 introduced Print Management via Group…

  • SMS Integris (Omnis) Compatibility on Windows Vista and Windows 7

    My previous articles on this subject are published here and here. Our site experienced considerable difficulties in making School Management Systems’ Integris 6.90.xx function successfully on Windows Vista even though the vendor does not have a history of problems. The majority of difficulties to date are on 32 bit Vista systems. We do not have…