I ve just heard that there is a new user group forming in Sydney. Starting in May, the Sydney Windows User Group will get off the ground. They are focusing on everything Windows client related, and plan to demo Windows 7 RC at their first meeting. There first meeting is on Wednesday May 13th, at Microsoft North Ryde office. Here s the link to their website … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2009
Cannot connect to Remote Web Workplace on SBS 2008
If you ve gotten the message below on your SBS 2008 server, then be sure that you have installed the Hotfix from Microsoft that you can get from this link. http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961775&kbln=en-us I blogged about this some months back but I forgot to install the patch myself on a client machine and it gave the error below which I did not expect. … [Read more...]
Kyocera Print Mode Error from Outlook 2007
Last week my accountant called me with a problem. He was having problems printing anything to the Kyocera printer . He has a Kyocera Mita KM-1650 KX printer connected to his SBS 2003 Server via the network. All users print to this main printer as their default printer. I asked him over the phone exactly what that meant and in typical client fashion he told me that anything … [Read more...]
Windows Live Family Safety Filter How to Remove it
Ok so now I ve finished testing it, there is one downside that I ve found that might make it a little more difficult for me as an IT Pro. During testing I ve found a few times that the Windows Live Family Safety Filter will prevent me from doing some basic testing (Pings etc) unless it is signed in. Now given I am administrator on my laptop it s not an issue for me to … [Read more...]
Windows Live Family Safety Filter monitoring my kids Internet Access
I ve been trialling out the Windows Live Family Safety Filter so that I could have it running on the computers for my kids. I ve got a teenager and a soon to be teenager, and I need to monitor both and block some of the less than desirable web sites from their computers. My kids often take their computers to friends places and therefore I needed a solution that will work … [Read more...]