Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Windows Annoyances
Using Outlook 2010 with More than One Exchange Account Crashes Regularly
Posted by on February 24, 2011
I quite liked the idea of a new feature in Outlook 2010, the ability to use more than one Exchange account at a time. People have been asking for this for years and it looked promising, in the past there was a work-around using virtualization but it was very resource intensive for most people’s machines. [...]
Cannot Access Shared Folder vmware-host Shared Folders My Desktop
Posted by on February 8, 2011
I encountered this error when a Windows 7 VM running under Fusion logs on, VM tools is mapping a drive to your OS X home directory and results in the following Windows error message Cannot Access Shared Folder \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\My Desktop I hit this error after I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my [...]
OS X Expose Clone for Windows
Posted by on November 18, 2009
One of the main things I miss as I switch between a Mac and PC is the lack of decent multi-window manager support in Windows – alt-tab and win-tab are great but I find them cumbersome. A particular bug bear of mine is if you have to manage multiple terminal services sessions to servers/virtual [...]
VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta – Run Multiple Copies of Outlook/Exchange via Unity
Posted by on April 30, 2008
I use a single laptop for my day-day use, it has all the stuff i need, I run Vista and Office 2007, for our corporate mail we use Exchange like everyone else and I use Outlook Cached Mode to work online/offline.. My own personal email is also an Exchange mailbox – provided by fasthosts [...]
How to stop Terminal Services Clients Beeping!
Posted by on March 3, 2008
This always annoys me, when I connect my laptop via the MSTSC terminal services client it always beeps at logon; if it did this via the onboard sound card on my laptp that would be fine as typically it’s always muted when I’m in the office/on a client site as it’s annoying. However it [...]
