Getting ready for IE 8

Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:13 Last Updated on Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:29 Written by Chris Colden

IE 8 is currently in beta and has introduced yet more complications with web development. I have been doing a bit of research into fixes for these issues and have come across the following site from Microsoft.

The article explains several approaches to keeping your website compatible with IE 8 and older legacy browsers through the use of IE 8's Compatibility Mode and Conditional Comments as well as configuration changes to IIS 7.

Microsoft Exchange Resource Site

Saturday, 13 March 2010 12:42 Last Updated on Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:29 Written by Chris Colden

Yesterday I had the task of recoving a corrupt installation of Microsoft Exchange 2007. Knowing very little about Exchange myself, I turned to google for some assistance. During my travels around the web I found a very useful site dedicated purely to Microsoft Exchange.

SQL Server 2005 CD Install

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 21:34 Last Updated on Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:30 Written by Chris Colden

I've been having fun today installing SQL Server 2005 from CD media. Which you would have thought would be fairly straight forward (CD 1 then CD 2).

However, as I discovered today the install can fail in many ways, especially if the files have been extracted to a file share. While troubleshooting the failing install I discovered the following, which helped considerably.