Firefox 3 on Vista 64 bit (+ Server 2008 32 bit)

by Andy on June 18th, 2008

I’m proud (and not shy) to say that I’m quite the advocate for Microsoft Technologies, but I must, of course, have an appreciation for other software provider’s offerings so that I can justify best practice and proposed solutions to my clients. So today I downloaded Firefox 3!

Previous versions of Firefox would not work for me as I’m a 64 bit Vista (Ultimate) user thus I was keen to learn if version 3 would be 64 bit compatible……and it is! I’ll be testing this against MOSS 2007 later this week and will post my findings not long after.

Oh, and Firefox 3 also works quite nicely on my 32 bit Windows Server 2008 (standard) virtual machine. Not to sure about 64 bit W2K8 yet but I assume it should work also (?)

Grab Firefox 3 from here - http://mozilla.com/firefox

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Windows Server 2008 Missing Disk Cleanup (and introducing ‘Desktop Experience’)

by Andy on June 17th, 2008

Ever wondered why you can’t find Disk Cleanup on Windows Server 2008? This is because this feature is not installed by default.

The solution is to install a feature called ‘Desktop Experience’. Using Server Manager, choose Add Feature, then select Desktop Experience. (Desktop Experience will also install Windows Media Player, Windows Sidebar and Photo Gallery).

After installing ‘Desktop Experience’ you might find the Vista Theme missing. To enable this you’ll need to start the ‘Themes’ Service (Run > services.msc)

Something else worth noting from Mark Harrison’s blog is that he found on a Windows Server 2008 VM he couldn’t :
- Save directly from Word into a SharePoint Document Library
- “View in Windows Explorer” the SharePoint Document Library

He notes that the normal solution is to start the “Web Client” service to enable WebDAV but the service was missing. Solution was to install the “Desktop Experience” feature.

Here’s the article: http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2008/03/windows-server-2008-desktop-experience.htm

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