I am always using remote desktop to connect to various machines around the house as well as virtual machines and it always annoys me that when I disconnect from the console. I came across a solution today that leaves the console logged in!! All you need to do is disconnect...
I have invested a lot of time and effort in my work environment. I work from home and spend around 5 hours a day working in the office, and about 1 hour reading in my reading room. To break things up I also spend a lot of time out walking...
I am personally still working through beta issues with Windows Vista and really don’t have the hardware to do it justice, so my summary opinion right now is “I see some potential, but lots of change and no very clear benefit”. However that opinion may well change as we get...
I get very encouraged when I hear IT people worrying about the way people actually work, and even more so when they realise that the IT industry has not taken this issue seriously enough. IT people too often think in terms of features and not in terms of real-world business...
Earlier today I posted an article on Microsoft and Web 2.0 in the enterprise. The focus of this post was the way in which Microsoft enables end-users and process/data owners at the edge of the business to take advantage of Web 2.0 concepts. However there is another more rigorous approach than the...
You can find more on Office 12 from the following links, bear in mind that most people (including me) are under NDA so we can only talk about the stuff that’s already been talked about in public. You can find most of my posts by searching for Office 12 – these...
During the last couple of months I have been discussing some of the business implications of Web 2.0 with Doug Neal, you can read the result in this document – Management Messages on Web 2.0 – What you need to know about the next generation of the Internet. The discussion got...
I find it very difficult to keep up to date with what’s going on in Groove, I only have 3 workspaces, but that’s three additional places to go to look for updates. Last night I mentioned to Doug that there should be a way to subscribe to changes in Groove...
In this post I described OnTime which is a great product for activity and task management (not great for project management), it’s free for use by a single individual. Well one of the great features appeared to be the ability to integrate it with email. This is achieved by creating...
I have just tested out the first RSS feeds from my companies enterprise portal, worked fine once I had authenticated (we use forms based authentication using SiteMinder) from within the RSS reader (in this case RSS Bandit). I usually use NewsGator but in my quick test it didn’t seem possible...