One of the cardinal rules of our IT Office is that everyone must run a standardized (as much as possible) set of software. This practice ensures an easier support experience, both for the technicians and the end users. It also reduces the overall maintenance window. If everyone is running the same software then we all [...]
Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category
28 Sep
Exchange No More
We have officially shut down our Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 e-mail server. All of our staff e-mail accounts have been successfully migrated to the Google Apps collaboration system. We still have over 1,000 accounts on a few other servers but this is a significant milestone in the overall migration project. Here’s to progress!
27 Sep
Targeted Advertising
Looks like this ad company doesn’t know their target audience that well…
25 Jul
Microsoft Not So Altruistic After All
I recently wrote that Microsoft suddenly released some code to the open source community. Turns out their motives weren’t as pure as first thought: Sometimes, some things are just too good to be true. Earlier this week, Microsoft made a relatively stunning announcement that it would contribute some 20000 lines of code to the Linux [...]
20 Jul
Microsoft Stuns Linux Community
This is absolutely stunning: In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device Driver for Virtualization. The drivers, once added to the Linux kernel, will provide the hooks for [...]
