We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You'll notice we didn't put things like "we're wicked smart" or "we're great haxors". We tried t ...[Read More]

Louis in our office ran into an issue lately where I was trying to push out Trend clients to workstations and was receiving a security prompt saying the account "does not have administrator privileges" when in actually does. To fix ...[Read More]

Well, what d'ya know? I'm not sure how far back this feature goes (at least Vista, maybe XP, gosh, maybe even Windows 2000?), but it became a very practical solution for me today.   My Requirement I'm the "a picture is worth a 1000 words ...[Read More]

Customers are asking... So, we've got a statement for customers in Victoria, BC.   Microsoft has formally announced that Windows 7 has been "released to manufacturing" with the general availability date to customers being pegged as Oc ...[Read More]

I've seen these Event ID's appear in situations where:   Active Directory was unhealthy (or a single DC, that a workstation was attempting to connect to was unhealthy) DNS Servers that a workstation points to, are unhealthy Combinat ...[Read More]

Gents, I ran into this the other day. A server (VM to be exact, RG Exchange) was trying to apply some new Security Patches on boot but it kept saying "Applying updates, 3 of 3, 0% complete". This went on for an hour (and who knows how ...[Read More]

We all have our loves and hates about Vista. Mine are pretty simple (why is the Telnet client not installed by default? Why isn't it faster than it is?). But for the most part, if I find something I don't like, I figure out how to shut it off and ...[Read More]

Here's a listing of (no, I'm not ranting about how much I love SharePoint in this post, though I might reference it here and there) 3rd party tools that I use constantly and a brief summary of how I use it (I'm not listing the complete listing of ...[Read More]

Ok, I've run across this a few times and while I've never (bothered) to (worry about/research) fix the issue permanently, here's your workaround for the situation where you are trying to launch your Windows Vista VPN connection (PPTP, etc.) by cho ...[Read More]

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ...[Read More]