Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

After spending the past two months wading through the Vista Networking public newsgroup over at msnews.microsoft.com, I have come up with the following tips that will save the users from many problems:
1.  If you are having network access/connectivity issues AND you have a Norton or McAfee network security (not AV, but I won’t go there [...]

As I said in my first weekend roundup, I was going to install a copy of Windows Home Server this past week. Well, I ended up doing so, using VMWare Server on my “real” home server that runs Windows Server 2008 RC0 beta (and I will reserve the future rant of VMWare NOT SIGNING [...]

There was an interesting article over at Network World that caught my eye today - Vista over the WAN:  good but not great.  As I have been immersing myself in WAN technologies lately, this has piqued my interest.  I admit that I somewhat agree with the reviewer - the experience over the WAN is better, [...]

First of several quick updates:
The Beta 3 release of Longhorn Server has been released and is available for download on Connect…
Unfortunately, there is still nothing on the (immediate) horizon in regards to hypervisor, but one can hope.. 
Also, the IIS 7 team is making a Go Live license available.  More at the IIS blog…

OK, here is another off-topic posting (at least on networking issues), but I have had many emails/comments asking about these issues:
1.  AutoCAD releases prior to the 2008 versions (and all affiliated vertical products) are NOT supported officially by Autodesk.  Some people have reported that they were able to get them to work, but there are [...]

For readers of my past Windows Vista and Toshiba drivers, please note the following:
TOSHIBA WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING EITHER THE TOSHIBA TECRA M7 OR THE SATELLITE R25 TABLET PC FOR WINDOWS VISTA.
Yes, their site states that both of these models do support Vista and both machines carry the Vista Capable label.  In fact, during the [...]

<Updated>See here for information on Vista support for the Toshiba M7/R25 Tablets</Updated> 
Just one quick warning tonight…
Be careful and check the updates that you are being offered.  I was offered a Toshiba update for HDD protection for my laptop.  This was an optional update, so it wouldn’t have been auto-installed if one would set Vista to [...]