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Home Server 2008

We have had Windows Home Server 2008 in our action pack for quite a while now but haven’t really paid much attention to it, so I decided to see if it links in with Media Centre and what exactly it can do, with the release of Power Pack 2 for Home Server, Microsoft have added […]

Vista Media Centre Library Problem

I had a bit of a strange problem with the library in VMC it started to display folders that I had not added for example the root of c: and my music was being displayed in the videos section, I tried to remove all folders from within media centre and also from within media player […]

Hyper-V R2 RC Upgrade

I decided i was going to upgrade my copy of Hyper-V server R2 Beta over the weekend to the RC version, after checking the Microsoft website for any possible repercussions it seemed to suggest it was a simple upgrade, so after some full backup of the guest operating systems (always a wise move before making […]

Could not start the BlackBerry MDS on Local Computer. Error 203: The system could not find the environment option that was entered.

Today on one of our servers one of our users reported that there Blackberry had stopped receiving emails, when i looked at the service i noticed the blackberry router and MDS service had stopped, the router restarted ok but the MDS service kept saying

‘Could not start the BlackBerry MDS on Local Computer. Error 203: […]

Unable to access ftp site from a client machine on an SBS 2003 network

I have just come across a strange problem accessing ftp site via ie7 on a client machine on an SBS 2003 nework specifically the companies house website, when the client right tried to right click and save as they would get ‘The connection the the server has been reset’ error message and the good old […]

Passthrough hard drives on Hyper-V Server

Well its my first post and i just finished installing SBS 2008 on Hyper-v server R2 Beta with no real problems what so ever i expected it to run incredibly slow but i was pleasently supprised with the speed of it, there were a couple of quirks when it comes to adding extra hard drives […]