Archives: 2007 August

Incredible as it may seem, I occasionally screw up. Here’s a recent example. A client wanted to add a small, fast laser printer at her desk so she could print reports from her accounting system. This system is run on a Citrix server, which always makes printing more complicated. Now I knew that many printers, [...]

There’s a webcast coming up in October about Microsoft licensing. I took a look at the names, titles, and job descriptions of the panelists to see whether it might make sense for me to send some of my licensing rants directly to these individuals. Didn’t help.

Joe Matz ”is corporate vice president of the Worldwide Licensing and Pricing [...]

How many times has this happened to you? Somebody wants all the mail addressed to a generic address like info@theirdomain.com to be forwarded to a particular user account. So you go into the user account properties in Active Directory and try to add an SMTP address on the E-mail Addresses tab. But oops! You get [...]

It’s in the high 90’s in Boston today, but it’s even hotter where I am, in Microsoft licensing hell. One of my customers needs a couple of new computers. The customer has an active Open Value agreement. I want to make sure that these computers will be able to run Office 2003 Professional now and [...]

Lots of folks keep asking me about the iPhone. I still advise against it for anyone using Microsoft Exchange for e-mail, at least until there are proven solutions that make it just as good as Windows Mobile and Blackberry for full wireless synchronization of e-mail, calendar, and contacts. Here’s another review that covers all the [...]

Something was terribly wrong with the synchronization of My Documents between my server and my laptop. Not only was my laptop’s hard drive starting to run out of space for no good reason, but often I would turn my laptop on at a remote location and discover that the offline files weren’t there.
I solved the [...]