Recently I had to do some hands on support I hadn’t done for a while, I had to add printer drivers to a print server. The challenge though (there’s always one) the clients were 64 bit Windows 7 and the server was 32 bit Windows 2003, so only had printer drivers for XP and other 32 bit clients.
“Client” Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard edition
Start -> Administrative Tools – Print Management
Add the 32 bit print server
Must ensure the Driver Names are the same
As I’ve blogged previously I recently purchased a new Dell Laptop for work. I’m not a big fan of the trackpad on any laptop so the first thing I threw into the laptop bag was a wireless mouse I had lying around. After a day of using it however I wasn’t happy with it as a solution. There were several times I nearly snapped of the little dongle thingy, plus the inconvenience of losing a USB port when you only have two made me think there must be another solution.
My old laptop was getting a bit long in the tooth and taking longer and longer so I decided it was time to purchase a shiny new one.
After some deliberation and the chance to look at and play with one I decided on the Dell XPS 13. Initial impressions are very good, feels solid, nice screen, good size, lightweight. Everything you’d be looking for in a laptop these days.
Microsoft has come a long way from the bad old days of Windows 95 and blue screens of death. Recently I had to add a new domain controller to a domain, rename that domain, create a new Exchange server and migrate all the users mailboxes to that new server. All in the space of a few days because the old hardware was crashing constantly and nobody was quite sure how long the hardware would last.
Continue reading Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Outlook Mobile Access
After banging my head for nearly 3 days straight I finally got this HP MSA Array to talk to Xenserver 6.0.2.
What should’ve been a simple point click next, next install turned out to be not quite so straight forward and just goes to prove that bloody Murphy, he’ll get you every time.
Continue reading Lessons learnt installing Citrix XenServer 6.0.2
