One of the more complex and definitely more taxing duties I have to carry out is Laptop Management. On the surface it’s a simple five step process: Establish the requirement Specify then order the machine and related items Build the machine Issue the machine Support the machine But things are never that simple. Sometimes just [read more...]

Buzzwords, Buzzword, Buzzwords. You can’t escape them and yet life wouldn’t quite be the same without them. My favourite two buzzwords at the moment are Unified and Virtualization – they seem to pop up so many times at Seminars and Conferences recently. I’ve added my recent Buzzword Bingo sheet into the Useful Links section, it [read more...]

I often visit reference sites to assess potential systems and, whilst each visit is unique, common questions often come up during the visit. I have listed some of the more common ones here in case they are of use to anyone. What are the company details?What system is in place?What version is in use now?How [read more...]

I am in the process of reviewing our current Time and Attendance/Access Control System. Our current system still uses the old mag-stripe swipe cards and is very limited when it comes to extending the system. Migrating these sort of systems is never a straightforward process as a number of factors have to be taken into account: the broad range of [read more...]

It seems everyone is blogging these days and I hear a lot more talk about it in the last few months than ever before – even some of my family have their own blogs now. I must admit I find it both a fascinating and useful medium as firstly it allows me to collect together [read more...]

Recently I’ve been having problems with Exchange 2007 and OWA. Everytime I click on an item I get and today I have started receiving the following error message. Client InformationUser Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)Exception DetailsDate: Wed Jun 20 18:17:47 UTC+0100 2007Message: ‘all’ is null or [read more...]

I’m back from the Sharepoint half-day Seminar feeling somewhat worse for wear after facing the wrath of the M6 in both directions. I got jammed between J18-19 for over an hour on the way out and between J13-J14 for just under an hour on the way back. There seems a distinct lack of West Midlands based [read more...]

The migration to ServerExpress v4 seems to have gone very well, better than expected in fact. I was expecting problems due to the huge leap we made but hats off to Micro Focus their product installation was a breeze and the software runs smoothly. I’ve now received ServerExpress v5 so I need to schedule some [read more...]