Bitten by a [Old] Bug . . .
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Tech | No Comments »I set up a virtual lab to test some deployments of Office 2007 and Symantec Endpoint Protection. Cue many hours banging my head off the wall and cursing the wrong software. I needed to test the deployment of the packages before ...
MS CRM 3.0 Email Routing Rules
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Tech | No Comments »I've been setting up a simple CRM system to handle support requests from clients and assign them a tracking token. I used this guide I wrote a while back to install and configure the basics of the CRM server. This gave ...
70-282 Designing, Deploying and Managing a Network Solution for a Small and Medium-Sized Business
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Tech | No Comments »Today I passed my first MS cert. I did a 2 day version of the MS 2395A course last month and crammed some study into a day and a half before the exam. Managed to score 894 in the test and ...
Troubleshooting and Diagnosis of Hardware and Software Faults
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 Posted in Tech | No Comments »One of my duties at work is repairing PC and Laptop computers with everything from spyware and virus infections to broken or defective hardware. Over time I've came to a way of working which aims to rule out the various issues ...
Corrupt Icons When Opening CD/DVD in My Computer
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Tech | No Comments »If I have Large Icons enabled and open a CD or DVD to view the contents of the disc, I get Internet Explorer HTML page icons obscuring the actual icons for folders and files. Using TweakUI's Rebuild Icons feature would ...
Orange SPV E650 AKA HTC Vox S710
Monday, September 3rd, 2007 Posted in Tech | No Comments »I've had an SPV C600 for the best part of a year now and the other day a nice lady from Orange phoned offering me a new phone. The SPV E650 has been getting longing looks from me since its ...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3 and SBS 2003 R2 Premium Installation Guide
Saturday, August 4th, 2007 Posted in Tech | 2 Comments »The last week and a half has certainly been interesting. I've been trying to get to grips with two new [to me] technologies; SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Small Business Edition. More and more clients are looking ...
UBCD4Win Setup Guide
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 Posted in Tech | No Comments »I often need to diagnose hardware faults or troubleshoot an install which may contain spyware, viruses or have other issues. As far as I'm concerned there is only one* tool that gets the job done with anywhere near a satisfactory ...
Postfix with Smart Host
Friday, July 6th, 2007 Posted in Tech | No Comments »Postfix is my favourite Linux mail server, I find gettng it up and running fairly straight forward. This is my quick guide to a working config that'll accept mail destined for it from other mail servers and send mail via ...
iriver H340 Battery Upgrade
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Tech | No Comments »I went to the new Maplin store in Derry today and got a replacement battery for my mp3 player to boost its running time. I got an iriver H340 a couple of years ago as it was one of the larger ...