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The Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 was released just the other day, and I took the opportunity in the weekend to install it and then reconnect all the PCs to it. They all worked flawlessly. The most exciting thing is now my 2 Vista 64 machines are now connected and being backed up. Previously one wasn’t being backed up at all though there was no data on the machine, and the other which is my workstation was being backed up to an internal 500gb drive.

If you have a Windows Home Server I recommend downloading the upgrade as it also fixes the data corruption error previously found in a few small number of installs with multiple hard drives.

Microsoft Office

In the process of upgrading Drupal sites to the latest version 6.3, I have come across a configuration difference between version 6 and previous versions.

Where before I used to put contributed modules and themes into the modules and themes folders, now they should reside under the sites\all\modules and sites\all\themes folders.

So now this makes an upgrade quite a bit easier.

Here is our process

1. For version 6 sites, check the available updates for any other module and theme updates that are required. Log into the site www.website.com/user as administrator.
2. Ensure back up is complete of both home directory and database
3. Go to admin settings, Site configuration, and site maintenance and put site into offline mode
4. Then go to administer and change theme to Garland
5. Turn off all non core modules
6. Now delete out all folders and files from public_html (within its Drupal folder) except
1. Sites (IMPORTANT)
2. Files
3. Any other non standard files or folders

A bunch of great things have come across my desk lately – haven’t got time to write about them all so here’s the links. go read them yourself.

Outlook signatures – how to back them up from one pc / profile to another

Latest release of Live Mesh – the news from the Liveside blog

Office Live Update 1.1

Virtual Machine Remote Control Client Plus

Open Source Mission - Bible Translation Wiki and Andree Yee – as introduced by Marcus Goodyear

CCBlogs – we built this site! go read the cool theological discussions that are happening here.

Not sure if I shared this one before or not. I built this social site for the basketball team I coach using Ning software – its great. Use it for free to develop a great social site for your organisation. Can be public or private.

Joe from Joe Tech has written an article outlining the top ten reasons he thinks the new Entrecard – SezWho partnership is great for bloggers.

Here’s a one line summary of each point – for the details read his article.

1. Your blog will get more comments
2. Comments will be high quality comments
3. You will leave more comments
4. Earn Entrecard credits
5. Check Me out – a SezWho feature
6. Reduced bounce rate
7. Backlinks
8. Its Viral
9. School of Blogging
10. It will keep you blogging