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  • Ministry of Education renews Microsoft Schools Agreement for 2010-2012

    The NZ Ministry of Education has renewed the Microsoft Schools Agreement for New Zealand schools for 2010-2012. Whilst I have yet to see the agreement, it continues the trend of these agreements and will provide welcome continuity for school administrators and IT staff. The new agreement provides effective transitions for most existing software packages whilst…

  • Exchange Management Console issue on Windows 7, and miscellaneous firewall errors sending mail on Exchange Server 2007

    ISSUE: When you install Exchange Management Console for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 onto a desktop PC running Windows 7 RC or Windows 7 Gold, you may experience error messages when attempting to access the Client Access item of Server Configuration in the console tree. The messages received are similar to the following:   The following…

  • Changes to RSAT tools for Windows Vista SP2

    RSAT is the Remote Server Administration Tools, which replaced the Adminkit that was supplied in Windows Server 2003. RSAT is for managing a Windows Server 2008 box in Vista. The RSAT and the related Hyper-V management component were updated when SP2 of Vista was released. I found a lot of difficulty trying to locate the…

  • The Windows 7 Week Wrap-up

    Although this is only the fourth day, it is Friday today so it is the last day of the week. The old 915 bit the dust and got binned, the “new” 915 got a fresh Vista installation on its second 80 GB HDD after all attempts to restore the original installation were unsuccessful. Obviously I…

  • Windows 7 Week, Day 3

    Today was the day that I rashly decided to do what I didn’t want to do yesterday. That is, to turn the D915 (old XP box) into a dual boot Vista/XP system, and the Q35 (old Vista box) into Windows 7. All this would be relatively simple, just a matter of moving some HDDs and…