Nick MacKechnie
Stuck somewhere between family life and IT...
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training Standalone and Portal Edition
Hi All, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers a rich set of features to help you manage...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 12/09/2007
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate Evaluation Software - Released
Hi All, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the most advanced Windows Server operating system yet,...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 12/05/2007
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 VHD - 32-bit version
Hi All, The following link enables you to download a pre-configured VHD to evaluate Microsoft...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 12/05/2007
Microsoft Support Lifecycle - December 2007 Update
Hi All, Please find below this quarter’s update regarding Microsoft Support Lifecycle, including the...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 12/05/2007
Are you ready for Windows Server 2008?
Hi All, Prepare yourself for the next release of Microsoft’s server operating system—Windows Server...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 12/04/2007
Office Mobile 6.1 (Retail) is now Live!!!
Hi All, The Office Mobile 6.1 Retail version brings Office 2007 file format support to Windows...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 12/02/2007
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 available for download!
Hi All, You can download Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 today! The list of new features in SP1...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/29/2007
Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Group Policy preferences
Hi All, Please find below a link to a white paper, this white paper introduces Group Policy...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/27/2007
MSTSC /console switch in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1
Hi All, In Windows Server 2003, the /console option was used for several purposes. With the...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/27/2007
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 CTP, November 2007
Hiya, Download the latest SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) and try out the latest...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/20/2007
Microsoft Virtualization Support Policy
Hi All, In response to industry and customer demands for more comprehensive technical support of...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/18/2007
How many versions of Windows Server 2008 are there going to be?
Hi All, Windows Server 2008 Product Lineup and Hyper-V In case you didn’t hear or read the news,...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/13/2007
Announcing the 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide
Hi All, With hundreds of security and privacy settings, the 2007 Microsoft® Office release is the...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/12/2007
Microsoft Support Lifecycle Update - November 2007
Hi All, Welcome to the latest edition of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Update. This Microsoft...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/11/2007
Announcing the release of the Microsoft Deployment Solution Accelerator
Hi All, Unified Tools and Guidance for Desktop and Server Deployment Automation. Download it today!...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/11/2007
Component Architecture Reference Posters
Hi All, Exchange...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/08/2007
Microsoft Product Activation for Windows Vista & Windows 2008
Hi All, Please find below a link to a technical bulletin that describes the technologies used for...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/07/2007
New Sysinterals Utilities released
Hi All, PsExec v1.90: This version of PsExec, a command-line tool for executing programs locally and...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/07/2007
Register your @live.xx email now!
Microsoft just enabled the @live.xx signup! Go grab yours now! https://get.live.com/getlive/overview...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/06/2007
AD Insight Tool (SysInternals) Available
Hi All, ADInsight v1.0: Introducing ADInsight, an LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol)...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/06/2007
SysCenter Operations Manager 2007 SP1 RC Released to the connect site
Hi All, The release candidate for Service Pack 1 of SCOM07 has been posted to the...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/06/2007
Announcing: Microsoft Search Server 2008
Hi All, We’re excited to announce that we’re publicly unveiling Microsoft Search Server 2008 this...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/06/2007
Windows Live Messenger - Create a handy button so your friends can easily add you to their contact list
Hi All, Buttons make it easy! Use the button builder below to create a button that fits your...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 11/05/2007
MS07-058 and Windows 2003 SP1
Hi All, Over the past 3 weeks we have been monitoring any potential issues with the October patches....
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/30/2007
Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) is now Microsoft Deployment!
We are pleased to announce the RC1 release and new name for the fourth generation deployment...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/24/2007
Windows Live Linked IDs Shipped
Got multiple Windows Live accounts? Sick and tired of having to log out and back in again to switch...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/24/2007
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 to manufacturing
Microsoft has released Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 to manufacturing....
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/22/2007
Evaluation Software - Come and get it!
Try System Center Virtual Machine Manager Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/17/2007
More Windows Server 2008 Training Resources
Technet Win2008 Training Resources https://www.microsoft.com/learning/windowsserver2008/default.mspx...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/17/2007
SharePoint End User Training Kit (SLK) Released
Looking for end user training for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 ? The product team has released the...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/17/2007
Office 2007 Group Policy settings now available
Hi All, The GPO settings have now been released for download. Follow the link below and this will...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/14/2007
Fix for issue in Excel 2007 involving calculation of numbers around 65,535
You may have recently read of an issue in Excel 2007 involving calculation of numbers around 65,535...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/10/2007
Important hotfix for Exchange Server 2007 (KB942027)
Hi All, I wanted to make you all aware of a .NET CLR hotfix that has just been released which our...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/04/2007
Office 2003 Service Pack 3 and Microsoft Office Document Scanning
Hi All, I had a customer contact me the other day and they mentioned that after installing Service...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/04/2007
Two new updates for Windows Vista published yesterday
Hi All, An update is available that improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 10/03/2007
Windows 2008 Links (RC0)
Windows Server 2008 Download Locations (also available on MSDN) Windows Web Server 2008 RC0 -...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 09/27/2007
Two updates available to improve the compatibility and performance of Windows Vista
There are up some major updates for Windows Vista that have just been published to the web and are...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 08/08/2007
Outlook 2007 Performance Patch
This update fixes a problem in which a calendar item that is marked as private is opened if it is...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 04/15/2007
Operations Manager 2007 RTMs
SystemCenter Operations Manager 2007 has RTM’ed, the actual announcement and web update will be made...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/27/2007
Introduction to ADModify.net
ADModify is written using Microsoft Visual C#® .NET 2003. Version 2.0 is improved to make the same...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/27/2007
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is released (UPDATE)
There have been a few questions regarding Windows Server 2003 SP2, so I wanted to provide some...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/27/2007
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport and Messaging Protection
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport and Messaging Protection In deploying the Exchange...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/19/2007
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (32-bit x86) has been released – lifecycle information has been updated
https://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps#Servers Product Name General Availability Date Service...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/13/2007
Deploying Groove Server 2007 and Groove 2007 at Microsoft Technical White Paper
Detailed description of the worldwide Microsoft Office Groove 2007 deployment, which has resulted in...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/11/2007
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
If the machine participated in the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta,...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/07/2007
Outlook 2007 PDF Previewer handler
If you are annoyed that all other attachments can be previewed in Outlook except PDF, download and...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/05/2007
Deploying Windows Vista
Automating the installation of Windows Vista is the goal of many customers and the Windows Automated...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/05/2007
Installing AdminPak on Windows Vista
The AdminPak (Windows Server 2003 SP1 Administrators Tool Pack) can be installed on Windows Vista,...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/05/2007
Installing Virtual Server on Vista
Query - "Does anyone know how to get Virtual Server to install on Vista? When one tries to install...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 04/30/2006
Current GPU Guidelines for Windows Vista Capable PCs
The official guidance is on...
Author: Nick MacKechnie Date: 03/20/2006