Accessing the office data from home is always handy, particularly on lovely days like today. So, here’s a handy guide on how to set up a VPN connection in OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
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Thunderbird and Exchange 2010
We’ve had a few Thunderbird users complaining about not being able to connect to a clients new Exchange 2010 server. Outlook 20xx clients work fine, whether using Outlook Anywhere or IMAP, as do Apple Mail clients.
Mutual Authentication could not be established
We’ve recently migrated a client to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2007. Soon after we moved the Autodiscover role and subdomain to the new server quite a few Outlook users reported issues with Outlook Anywhere when out and about with their laptops.
Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window.
If Outlook 2007 gives you the error “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window” try this.
Parental Controls – K9 Web Protection
So far we’ve looked at the default parental control features of Apples OS X and Microsoft Windows. This time it’s the turn of K9 Web Protection.
Blank OWA page after Exch 2007 Rollup 9
If your users are seeing a blank page when logging on to Outlook Web Access then it’s worth checking whether a recent Exchange update rollup package was installed.
Parental Controls – Windows Family Safety
I recently had a look at the Parental Control feature of OS X. This time round I’ll be having a look at the Windows 7 implementation of the same set of features and seeing how it compares to the Apple alternative.
Blank search pane in XP
We had a client with a strange issue recently which, given the number of resolutions we attempted, is worth a quick blog.
Parental Controls – Apple OS X
Parents often seem to worry about their children using the internet, whether that’s from a security perspective or whether it’s just wanting to encourage them to get out from in front of the screen and spend more time outside.
What’s a Window worth ?
We’ve recently had a great period for OS releases. Windows is due out any day now, and it’s been in public beta for a long while, and OS X Snow Leopard has just been released with some nice, though minor, new features. All this new eye candy has led me to think again about the future of Windows.

