http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:41:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How healthy is your server and network? Do you know? How often do you check? What are your IT pain points? ... http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=43 Just so you are up to speed with this topic check out Karl Palachuk's blog entry here and I agree wholeheartedly with his sentiment and disappointment. There's a little more here on the ChannelWeb site as well. Well I've just been on the phone to MS financing and they have confirmed that the ... http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=26 Vista SP2 is available for direct download from the Microsoft website. You have the option on this page to download an .iso file (for making your own CD), or the .exe files for both 32 and 64-bit Vista. It will also be arriving shortly as an option through Windows updates. It’s ... http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=25 This is a large collect of patches, bug fixes and a bit of new stuff (the full download being up around the 290MB size). Comment has been made that Outlook has had a significant performance boost – which I will be interested to see. We are just about to start ... http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=24 This may have been hyped by the media and as such has made it onto the BBC website, who have also created a nice timeline of how the malware known as Conficker has been a real threat since August last year. It remains to be seen whether the threat is real ... http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=23 Well he did it! Phil completed the marathon in 4h 22m 8s and has raised over £600 in the process. Way to go! Read the blog entry here and if you are impressed by this feat donate here. http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=22 Just a brief posting this week to promote a marathon that an old friend is undertaking this Sunday to raise money for a worthy cause. 35km's is no easy feat and has taken a significant amount of time and preparation. You can follow his exploits here. Better still why not ... http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=21 If you are running one of the Autodesk 2006 products you have one day left to protect your investment in the software and maintain your upgrade route to later versions. The 2006 product line is due to retire tomorrow (13/03/09). Read more about the products being retired here. http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=20 I've already discussed the subject of patch management in my October posting, however recent news hitting the web and ezines is a timely reminder of why you should carefully manage (or even better, get us to manage) the deployment of your updates. This is not the first time something like ... http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=19 Another one for our AutoCAD users out there. It looks as though the AutoCAD update 2 causes the software to crash frequently!  Autodesk have released another update (2.01) to replace the original version 2.0 update.  Another point to note is that the software and the Add/Remove programs list reports the original ... http://www.dsbakerit.co.uk/blog/?p=18