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What are Outlook PST Files and Why Use Them… or Not?

MrGroove — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:51:07 -0500

Just about EVERYONE I speak to at work complains about the size of their corporate email account. Normally it’s not a problem (but they still complain…) because when a mailbox approaches it’s limit, most email servers (like Microsoft Exchange) will warn the user so they can clean up the mailbox before the server enforces their [...]

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Monitor and Discuss the Latest from Microsoft Download

MrGroove — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:31:43 -0500

Do you like Microsoft Software? Would you like to be notified immediatly when Microsoft posts new content to Microsoft Download? Then your in luck!!! A few days ago I launched a new site - microsoftPost.com. Essentially, microsoftPost.com is nothing more than an easy way for me (and you) to monitor and search for the latest releases [...]

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Adventure Adjusting to the New Family Computer

MrGroove — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:11:32 -0500

Well…. The home PC in the living room died last week. It was a SAD day in the GROOVY home. After a quick Service, I decided to try something NEW so I picked up a new MacBook Pro from the local Apple store. After a quick setup we got it rolling and wow! For a [...]

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Fix IE Crash When Opening Documents in Sharepoint

MrGroove — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:54:44 -0500

A while back after upgrading to Office 2007, I ran into a problem where Internet Explorer 7 would crash EVERY TIME I tried to open a document in Sharepoint. The problem occurred for both Excel and Word documents no matter what I tried (document check-out, edit then click on link etc….). I found that if [...]

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Install Virtual Machine Additions for MS Virtual Server 2005 R2

MrGroove — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:32:09 -0500

One nice thing about Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 is that if your running old Virtual Machine Additions on your Guest VM’s, the Admin console will throw an alert to let you know <See below shot>. This is nice being that you always want to be running the latest VM additions on your Virtual Machines [...]

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Add RunAs to Explorer Context Menu in Vista and Server 2008

MrGroove — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:21:18 -0500

As a Domain Admin for a small or large corporation, it’s NEVER a good idea to login as the Domain Admin (or other privileged user) to read email or surf the Internet. After all, if you pickup a nasty bug/virus, from Outlook or Internet Explorer your logged in credentials will have the ability to spread [...]

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Configure Apache Web Site to Use Multiple Ports

MrGroove — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:38:25 -0500

A few months back I ran into the need to configure my private Web Site running on Apache to use multiple ports. Essentially the Internet provider for my home began to block inbound Port 80 so I had to configure Apache to use an alternate port. The process was VERY simple and since I was [...]

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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update Released

MrGroove — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:48:01 -0500

On Thursday (May 15th 2008) I was pleasantly surprised to find that Microsoft released a new update for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 which adds support for Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 Virtual Machines. Microsoft also released Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 for the same reason. Being that I [...]

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OpenOffice.org Beta 3.0 Released

MrGroove — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:10:38 -0500

Happy Friday everyone! Just wanted to give a shout out today to OpenOffice.org! I just grabbed a copy of the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta released 5/7. I just grabbed a copy on my MAC PowerBook now that it supports MAC OS X Natively. This and the Office 2007 Import features is what I’ve been waiting [...]

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Migrate Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 VM to Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

MrGroove — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:53:32 -0500

Recently I converted / imported a Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 Virtual Machine from my Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 environment to my new Microsoft Windows Server 2008 box running the new Hyper-V Virtual Server technology. The upgrade was a bit easier than I expected BUT, I did run into a few surprises along the [...]

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