Tim Long

Forever in Electric Dreams
The life and times of a Small Business Server MVP and all-round technology enthusiast. Tim is founder of TiGra Networks, a company based in South Wales UK specialising in small business IT. This blog is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Specialists, IT professionals, Astronomers and anyone interested in science and technology.

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SBS/EBS Training
via Allison Pauli, Partner Marketing, Windows Server Solutions: Get Ready for the Windows Essential Server Solutions Launch with Technical Training Series The November 12, 2008 launch for Windows Essential Server Solutions is fast approaching!  Prepare...
Is Your ISP patched?
Is your ISP patched against the DNS cache poisoning ( US CERT advisory ) exploit? There are confirmed attacks in the wild . My ISP is patched. I asked them, and actually got an intelligent response. They escalated my ticket and a day later came the response...
ServerQuest: eighties retro chic
Move over Minesweeper! I received a link to this from my MVP lead and I'm hooked, despite the blatant advertising. The cleverly done retro-chic "plinky plonky" music, chunky graphics and office politics takes me straight back to the early...
SysInternals Live
What a radical idea. Microsoft has put all the Sysinternals utilities together in a single web folder, where you can easily download them all in one hit, or simply execute them directly from the web server, no fuss, no pfaff. From the Readme file: What...
CRM 4.0 Outlook Client Crashing
I've recently experienced a problem in the CRM 4.0 client for Outlook (both the desktop/online and laptop/offline versions) where Outlook would inexplicably crash every 15 minutes (the default CRM synchronisation interval is 15 minutes). We had narrowed...
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Go Gold
The 2008 launch wave is gaining momentum. Microsoft announced a few hours ago that both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 have been released to manufacturing. Windows Vista service pack 1 will likely impact most users in the short term...
Into The Groove?
Chris Rue has a stinging appraisal of Groove over at the funcave. "Groove has to be the worst software I’ve ever used in my life. [it] has the most idiotic user interface seen since cc:Mail. [...] To top it off, [...] this thing totally sucks at...
Heroes Happen at the Hilton
I've spent most of today at the London Hilton attending Microsoft's partner pre-launch for servers & tools. Grace and I were lucky enough to get a front row seat just 6ft away from Bill Gates as he gave the keynote speech and held a Q&A...
The Power of Community
Paul from Accendo Solutions has an article about how he recently used the Small Business Specialist Community to great effect on a job that would have been otherwise difficult to accomplish. Small business partners from around the UK came together to...
Why You Should Keep UAC Enabled
Plenty of people find User Account Control (UAC) a bit annoying - Like Paul at Accendo for example. However, I think it is worth living with. Yes, it is slightly annoying, but generally I'm anticipating the prompt when it does happen, either because...
Microsoft Professional Accountants’ Network (MPAN) and Office Accounting 2008 available in UK
After what seems like forever (I've been beta testing since May 2006), Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 is finally available in the UK, along with the Microsoft Professional Accountants’ Network (MPAN) . The basic (yet capable) edition is free to...
Small Business Specialist Group on LinkedIn
If you use LinkedIn, and you are a Small Business Specialist then join the SBSC group and display the Small Business Specialist logo on your LinkedIn profile. It costs nothing, generates no spam and will display your SBSC affiliation to your LinkedIn...
Farewell Robbie - or is it Aufweidersehen?
I couldn't possibly do a better job than Richard Evans in describing the impact that Robbie Upcroft has had on the UK Small Business Specialist Community. Richard mentions meeting Robbie for the first time at the inaugural meeting of SBS Midlands...
Is Linux Really More Secure, or is it Just Less Obvious When Compromised?
I was reading an article by David Overton , a Microsoft employee whose opinions I really respect. Of course, being a Microsoft employee he is always keen to play up the benefits of Microsoft's products, but I think he manages to do so in a fair and...
Core 2 Duo is 64-bit
Did you know, Intel Core 2 Duo processors are 64-bit! I'm running Windows Vista x64 on one right now as I type this post. I mention this because I've spoken to a lot of people recently who don't seem to realize that. SBSCs, that means, unless...
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