In this day and age with security and all, why does this Microsoft provided Windows Phone training kit default it’s installation path to the root?
iPhone 4
I haven’t purchased an iPhone 4 for two reasons.
1. 24 month contract
2. The antenna issue.
I don’t want to commit to a 24 month contract when apple will almost be refreshing again next summer and why would I want to purchase a expensive phone which may be faulty from the go?
So it looks like I may well jump this generation, because of these two issues I will be looking with some interest at Windows Phone 7 when it releases around October time.
Time will tell.
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How To Forward e-mail in SBS 2003
This video demos how to forward all e-mails from one user account to another users account and if required how to have them delivery to both accounts also.
iPad App Store
I was browsing the app store last night on my iPad and it closed. I reopened it again and I had the US app store. As you can see from the screen grabs, I could see hulu, so I tried to install, it started downloaded and a message came up saying I couldn’t use that store for my country and then it switched back.
iTunes HD TV Series Cost Against Blu-Ray
My wife and I wanted to purchase The Vampires Diaries, Sesason1 which has just finished airing here in the UK. So took a look on the internet and this is what I found. The blue ray version is £8 more expensive than that of iTunes. I tunes is £29.99 which is pretty good in my opinion and you get the SD edition included in that as well, for playing on your iPhone.
Also it’s available now on iTunes where as with Blu-Ray we would have to wait until August. I’m pleasantly surprised. It’s good as well using iTunes Home Share this content can be shared on up to 5 home computers. Oh and I don’t own a Blu-Ray Player either…. so it saved on that cost. The biggest down side I can see is the DRM….. 
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How To resolve a sub domain internally with SBS 2003
If you have created a A record called remote (for example) on your domain name to make it easier for users to access RWW (remote web workplace) from home, you will notice of course that this doesn’t work internally. This can cause issues with Exchange Active Sync devices that you may have configured to connect to the the server using remote.domain.com and this works great when external from the internal network. It doesn’t work when the device is within the network the and connected via Wi-Fi.
Also this can become difficult when configuring OWA (Outlook Anywhere) for Outlook. As the domain and the certificate has to match you can’t install the certificate because the domain doesn’t match internally if your using http://servername/. This resolves that issue and keeps things generally orderly.
Oh, this video actually features me. 
Sorry about the erms and pauses. Hopeful the more of these I do the better I will get.
DISCLAIMER: Please use this advice at your own risk. I have tested it in the lab (read virtual machines) and in production environments and I’ve had no issues. Be careful.
Various
I haven’t blogged for a few weeks, so I thought I would today. You may noticed the addition of Google Ads on the left hand side. Sorry guys, I have to fund this site some how. 
This is my first post using the new Windows Live Writer, looks nice with the ribbon.
I did purchase and iPad in the end. I like it, I’m note sure it’s worth the money, but the build quality is really good. It’s great for use in front of the TV causal browsing and a god sense for reading in bed. I’m trying to read 1984, read the first chapter but it hasn’t gripped me as of yet.
Since installing OS X into Virtual Box it appears that Mac Mail only supports Exchange connectivity for 2007 and above, which is rather annoying.
I’m working on a few things at the minute and will try and post more. Until next time.
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Mac OS X (10.6) Installing and running inside Virtual Box
What’s required:-
- Licensed copy of OS X.
- Oracle Virtual Box
- EmpireEFI V1.085 (The latest and greatest Empire EFI with support for AMD and Intel)
Running on an Intel Core i7 920, 8GB Ram.
More to follow soon on how to do this, with video…. 
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Sage Line 50 and Windows 7 64bit
Ran into an issue with 64 bit windows and Sage Line 50. We use excel to suck data from sage for our stock, accounts, etc… All of the spreadsheets that we have rely on the ODBC connector but it wouldn’t work, even when we tried to configure it via the 32 ODBC control panel applet. I had another look at it today and a little Google later I found this link.
Here’s what I got from it. Browse to the C:\Windows\systwow64 folder and run odbcad32.exe, you should now be able to configure the path to your sage data ase before. This basically fixed the issue, seems to me that Microsoft have some more work do to.
I belive that this is only an issue with Windows 7 64 bit. I have installed Windows 7 (64 bit) clean and then installed Sage on top of the clean Windows 7, then Excel 2010 (it was Excel 2007 when I first had the issue) and it worked frist time so if you having issues, a bit drastic but maybe a format reinstall will work. If you go down the reinstall route ensure that you have a fully tested backup.
UPDATE (16/07/2010):
Put the insturctions for the fix on this post, to save a click.
Would you like a video demo? If so then please leave a comment telling me so, if I receive enough then I, i’ll do it.
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Tagged 64 bit, Excel, Excel 2007, Excel 2010, ODBC, ODBC32, Sage, Windows 7
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DCOM got error “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”
I was getting a lot of these errors in the system event log on one of the servers we maintain.
This thread put me on the right track to resolving the problem, http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread39730.html
1. Go to Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Component Services
2. Expand the Component Services > Computers > My Computer > DCOM Config (I received an error at this point, I clicked no)
3. I then change the view to details which displayed the Application ID. I went thru until I found the application id that matched that in the event viewer.
4. Click on the Identity Tab. On that tab there is a "This user:" radio button which contains the username and password that my Component is using. Simply change the user login information, you may have to restart the machine.
Hope it helps
UPDATE: Corrected a view typo’s.
