On a semi-regular basis I see an issue on customer networks whereby users receive errors in Microsoft Word similar to the following:

UPDATE: Unfortunately the video has been pulled. Hopefully someone can track down another link.

I’ve seen some dumb software in my travels and Mercury Quality Center is no exception; however this one has got me scratching my head.

I received the following error (in a dialog box) from Windows Setup on a Terminal Server running Windows Server 2003 not long after GUI-mode setup started:

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.