Microsoft have release a new tool, ClusPrep, for testing your servers readiness before you create a cluster to run things like Exchange and SQL:

During my quest to disable as many tray icons as I possibly can, I’ve had to track down how to disable the tray icon for Sophos Anti-Virus in a Terminal Server environment. This one is pretty easy, it’s just a single DWORD registry value:

Objective is an Enterprise Content Management system from Objective that uses a Win32 client that plugs into Office and can also be used as a stand-alone application for access to documents. I’m not a user of the application so I don’t really have an opinion on its effectiveness but organisations buy it so it must do the job.

Lot’s of NAP in the news over the past week or two, now if only I had the time and resources at the moment to do some more NAP testing.

Yay! (it is so very geeky to get excited over a scripting tool isn’t it?) Microsoft have released PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista today. It comes as a Microsoft Update Standalone Package.

UPDATE (09/12/2007): Updated with the list of applications and components listed here: Windows Vista components available for Windows XP.

This tickled my fancy too much so I had to post it: Bomberman Evolved

In case you were’nt aware, I have a number of install scripts for various applications that might be helpful for you if you are involved in any aspect of application deployment. A couple of these I have modified from an original script gleamed from AppDeploy.com. Hopefully you may find these useful:

Here’s a few NAP links worth checking out: