Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Revised Fix for Vista Black Screen of Death

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Here is the revised fix for the Vista Black Screen of Death thanks to Jamison West (whom has suffered more of these then he cares to admit).  Suspicion is that this recent outbreak of KSOD's is cause by a Zenith SaaZ agent update but we have not nailed it down ...

Windows Vista Black Screen with Mouse Cursor Only Issue

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

If you are one of the folks being affected during the past 45 days by the issue where Vista loads to a black screen with only a mouse cursor after reboot, this blog is for you.  I'm looking for two things.  I need existing Microsoft CSS support Case #'s related ...

Do NOT buy QuickBooks Online!

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

I don't usually vent via my blog but why not, it is a blog after all... Had a customer that wanted to upgrade from QuickBooks 2007 to 2009 so I sent them to Quickbooks.Intuit.com where they can easily order online.  As you all know you get free 30 days of tech ...

Did You Know

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

So I still don't have my YouTube Video of the week going every week but this week I as feeling a down about the dismal economic projections then I realized after watching the video below that I'm in the right line of work and should be more grateful than ever.  ...

SBS/EBS 2008 Technical Training

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Thanks Nick for the update link.  Get it here folks (before it gets moved again).  ;-)

Get CrossOver for FREE You MAC Lovers

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

All you folks that spent $2k on a laptop just so you can run Vista faster in Parallels can now get codeweavers' CrossOver for free today and today only.   While the demand for this offer has brought down codeweavers main site, you can still download the software and get a ...

Get Virtual Now! (Says Microsoft)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 Free Download released today and it's time we all got on board this train.  Especially since it's now affordable for everyone. In case you can't make the presentation Dave Sobel I will be be doing in Seattle this weekend there is always Microsoft's new Virtualization - Learning ...

Calyptix Invests Further in SMB Channel Strategy

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Today Calyptix will be announcing that they have retained the veteran SMB channel sales experts of Kristen Wild, Steve Wild and Terry Van Winkle.  If this tenacious trio is half as successful at getting Calyptix the SMB partner signup's that they did for StorageCraft then we've got a new Security ...

StorageCraft IT Edition 72% Off Via MSPSN

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Wow!  You read that correctly.  If you have read my blog for any length of time, or seen me do a disaster recovery presentation, then you know what a big fan of StorageCraft and MSPSN that I am.  This is the very same version of StorageCraft that I use to do ...

Microsoft Response Point Adds 8×8 and Bandwidth.com

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

You can now provision your Response Point phone system to to trunk calls to 8x8 and Bandwidth.com Microsoft announced yesterday.  Many scoffed at the limited functionality included in the initial release of RP but you can be sure that when it comes to using VoIP to further establish sockets in ...