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SBS 2008 both standard and premium are now released to manufacturing, and will be widely available by the 12th november launch date.

SBS 2008 promises to be more powerful and secure, bringing new tools to manage domain names and data folders.

• It is also bringing in new single CALs making SBS licensing more flexable and cost-effective.
• improved manageability with monotoring not only servers but client PC’s as well with customizable reports.
• SBS 2008 Premium also comes with SQL 2008 and a second Server 2008 license (SQL 2008 needs its own server to run on)
• New block-based server protection that can complete backing up your system in minutes rather than hours.
• Improved remote web workplace, intergration of new SharePoint and support for the newest Windows Mobile devices.

All sounds very good, we will be test it out and blogging about it shortly.

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Posted by Dave in Operating Systems, Small Business Software | No Comments »

Microsoft have finally released SQL Server 2008 this week just in time becuase support for SQL 2000 has just expired.

SQL 2008 has a list of new features including -

• Enterprise Reporting Engine – Reports can easily be delivered throughout the organization, both internally and externally, with simplified deployment and configuration.
• Internet Report Deployment – Customers and suppliers can effortlessly be reached by deploying reports over the internet.
• Report Builder Enhancements – Easily build ad-hoc and author reports wih any structure through report designer.
• Microsoft Office Intergration – SQL 2008 provides new Word rendering that enables users to consume reports directly within Microsoft Office Word. In addition, the existing Excel renderer has been greatly enhanced to accommodate the support features, like nested data regions, sub reports, as well as merged cell imporvements.

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Posted by Dave in Applications, Servers | 2 Comments »

We have recently put a few iMacs and macBookPros into a few customers and thought a few of the most used keyboard shortcuts for OS X would be well typed up.

All mac users sure try out Quicksilver, I’ve found it to be an invaluble tool that makes using OS X one of the quickest OS experiences you can get. It has many many uses and some of the great uses and functions are nicely demoed here and here.

cmd – this button is the one on either side of the space bar, sometimes known as the apple button.
alt – this is the button next to cmd, know in apple land as option.

When your focus is on Finder
cmd-N > New Finder Window
cmd-K > Connect to Server, great for a effectivly what Windows users would call mapping a network drive (smb://servername/sharename)
cmd-I > Get Info, when on or highlighting a file or folder this shows you the properties of it

General shortcuts for many apps
cmd-Q > Quit, a quick way to completely exist an application. Be careful of this for certain applications as the quit is almost instant, no good for any virutal program like Fusion or Parallels you may be running.
cmd-, > Preferences, loads the preferences for the currently active application
cmd-alt-esc > for closing stuck applications, a bit like task manager for Windows

When in Firefox
cmd-T > Opens a new tab
Holding down the cmd button when clicking a link opens that link in a new tab.

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Posted by Chris in Desktops and Laptops, Operating Systems | 1 Comment »

Although Apple dont seem to have released a list of bug fixes in the iPhone 3G’s latest update 2.0.1 here are a list of things i have found -

Scrolling through contact no longer has any lag at all which is great if you have a lot of contacts, the lag meant you went flying past the contact that you want.

There was also some lag when typing a test message sometimes, it wasnt the same person each time or everytime but it was most annoying when it did happen becuase the keyboard wasnt keeping up with what you were typing but this is now fixed.

A lot of the fixes in the update seem to be performance ones, as the two listed above, they have also fixed some of the little safari crashes and maps would sometimes return you to the home screen for no reason.

More updates as we find more fixes.

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Posted by Dave in Mobile | No Comments »