Climate Savers recently launched a new online directory of green computing products, featuring over 300 energy-saving desktops, laptops, servers, and internal machine components.
Founding members of this industry-based non-profit, whose goal is to dramatically increase the energy efficiency of PCs, includes Google, Microsoft, Dell, HP, and Intel.
IT has increasing become a green-front on the war against environmental impact—and [...]
I’ve been having a terrible time lately with SharePoint and Office (Office 2007 and IE 7 on Windows XP Pro with Windows SharePoint Services 2003). Whenever I open a Word DOC or DOCX from a SharePoint UNC path Word, Internet Explorer, and often Windows Explorer all freeze. After about 15-20 minutes these process usually start [...]
When installing Exclaimer’s Email Archive Web Access (v2.0.1.1038) software, if IIS does not have a website called "Default Web Site" then you’ll receive the following error:
Error 1720. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or [...]
If you make much use of Windows Remote Desktop, then this has happened to you. You have a remote session open and for no apparent reason your keyboard starts doing things when you type that are much more radical than merely laying down letters in a text field: explorer windows open, programs minimize, the [...]
I recently returned from a 3 week stay in Bratislava, Slovakia. The trip itself was part vacation and part work and one of my goals while I was there was to experiment with working from a different place and time.
The puzzle
As a company, one of our recent initiatives has been to make it easier to [...]
The virus definitions for one of our internal servers running Computer Associates eTrust ITM v8.0 hadn’t been updated since the last time we rebooted the server (about 45 days ago). I tried updating the definitions manually by right-clicking the eTrust ITM tray icon and clicking Download Updates Now and also restarting the eTrust ITM services [...]
We recently became a Microsoft Certified Partner and at the same time earned Microsoft’s Network Infrastructure Solution competency. Becoming a certified partner represents an important step in the growth of our IT consulting and support practice and allows us to demonstrate our competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies. The Networking Infrastructure Solutions competency recognizes our [...]
A while back, I ran into a problem using Adobe Creative Suite on Windows Server 2003 SP2 with Terminal Services. When launching any of the suite’s applications using an account with standard user privileges on the server, I would receive the following error:
An error has been detected with a required application library and the product [...]
