Sep
25
A walkthrough of how to install Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8 inside a Virtual Machine on VMware workstation (pretty much the same steps apply for ESX\ESXi). The install procedure is also pretty similar on Communications Manager 6 and 7, but steps may vary slightly. Create a new virtual machine
Sep
19
Here are a couple of screen capture videos. The first is a brief explenation of my Hyper-V R2 lab setup with EMC Celerra VSA Uber edition, the second is a demo of Live Migration on the lab setup. Some useful links Hyper-V: Using Live Migration with Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2008 R2 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd446679%28WS.10%29.aspx …
Sep
11
LifeSize have been adding a lot of fixes and features in their latest firmware releases. Here is how to upgrade the firmware. The process is basically the same across the range. Note you will need to be under support with LifeSize to get access to the latest firmware, and unfortunately they will charge you a …
Sep
05
Not much to say, but here are the steps to installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2. I have put comments in, but it is pretty straightforward.
Aug
25
I have installed the Final SP1 build onto my Exchange 2010 lab server. All went smoothly, below are the details and some screenshots. Here are the pre-req’s the installer flagged This computer requires the Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs. Please install the software from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191548 Install hotfix Microsoft Knowledge Base article 982867 from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB982867. Click …
Jul
03
For those who are interested\struggling to choose between all the good sessions at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 The full list is here http://www.mspartnerconference.com/Topic/List Below is my schedule, there are some doubles where I will decide on depending on what colleagues go to.
Dec
01
I have been running the windows 7 RC on multiple machines and have generally been very impressed, finding very little that doesn’t work. One issue I have had is that on my HP 6730b laptop every so often the LAN network adapter (NIC) would disappear, giving no option to connect to the wired LAN. No …
Jun
19
I thought some people might be interested in what happens when you upgrade a jailbreak iphone to the 3.0 iphone firmware. I had a 2.2 jailbreak iphone with cydia, irealsms, clearcam and a lot of cool addons such as calender lock screen, notifier, custom ringtones, apple and 02 logo’s. I have an O2 sim so …
Nov
13
Ok so first real post. I just got sky+, I had a look around for some details before taking the jump and didn’t find a great deal so thought I would share my experience. First of all customer service and the installers were all great so kudos there. DECT Phone extender – didn’t work for …
Mar
21
It didn’t take me long to decide to upgrade the HD in my sky+. The stock drive was quiet enough spinning and reading but did have an annoying high pitched squeak all the time. The stockdrive is a seagate, I think I probably just got a slightly noisy one. I went for another Seagate Consumer …