WEBIT BLOG

Race the Runway 2010

rob — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:03:37 +0000

WEBIT took part in a charitable event with a difference yesterday. Over 30 cars descended onto the secondary runway of Edinburgh Airport to drag-race each other! WEBIT’s driver, Rob Davidson beat his opponent in the first round of qualifications however lost in the second round. All in all, an awesome day out! Not only that but the event raised around £20,000 for St Columba’s Hospice in Edinburgh and the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow.

For more details on the event and the charities involved visit:

http://www.stcolumbashospicefundraising.org.uk/news/supercars-race-along-edinburgh-airports-runway-for-hospices-race-the-runway-2010-4-176.aspx

Forgotten Attachment Detector

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:45:44 +0000

Ever written an email, referred to an attachment and then sent the email without the document? Well this handy application might just be for you. It’s a great addition to Outlook and should ensure none of those embarrassing second emails “oops, attached now”

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/forgottenattachmentdetector/Pages/default.aspx

Internet Explorer 9 platform preview 3

chris — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:14:28 +0000

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 platform preview 3 today, marking the third and possibly final release prior to the beta phase.

Looking forward to doing some testing with this early next week. Hopefully when the beta and final is released we can alter our development to include Internet Explorer in the early stages as it becomes more standards compliant.

WordPress Updated

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:24:15 +0000

In keeping with best practice, we’ve updated our WordPress to their new major version “3.0″. Still looking into the new features to see how we can make use of them for our own blog, but for our customers as well.

For the rest of the year, we will be offering free WordPress blog hosting for all our existing and future customers if they host their main website or application with us. Call us now for details!

PHP 5.3.2 Deployed

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:21:29 +0000

PHP 5.3.2 MySQL 5.1.47 fully deployed and tested on our new High Availability FreeBSD 8 servers. Migration of current websites will commence throughout July with no downtime.

If you want view the info page, you can do so here: http://black.anythinghosted.co.uk/info.php.

BLACK and LIME mark the set of servers running on our XEN environment for Anything Hosted. We plan to deploy ORANGE and GREEN during August in our other data centre and finally upgrading RED and PINK in September. GREY, which currently handles most of our outgoing mail for our Exchange environment will be decommissioned towards the end of the year as the other servers take over its role.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the team.

June Patch Tuesday

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:18:28 +0000

June’s Patch Tuesday has been completed for all WEBIT and Anything Hosted Windows based servers without interruption to service.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact a member of the team.

More Shell Work

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:24:59 +0000

Back in February/March this year, Chris was asked to come on board once again working for Shell Downstream/Oil Products to help with an interface between an existing system and their new Enterprise Data Warehouse. This week marked a milestone for his work on the project but will come back later in the year to oversee some data profiling and testing. The project is scheduled to go live in October this year.

Next week, however, will mark the beginning of a new project at Shell for Chris, which he is very excited about. Watch this space for more information.

All the best from the staff at WEBIT for the long weekend!

May Patch Tuesday

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:26:22 +0000

May’s Patch Tuesday has been completed for all WEBIT and Anything Hosted Windows based servers without interruption to service.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact a member of the team.

New Sharepoint 2010 “Teamspace”

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:53:06 +0000

Over the past couple weeks we have been testing a new SharePoint Enterprise 2010 installation for use both internally and externally with our customers.

Internally we will now be able to manage and collaborate documents with our staff more efficiently, whereever they are working around the globe. With integrated Office Web Apps 2010 and Project Server 2010, we see a full integration with the desktop applications and our Exchange Server, but also allow our staff to view and edit update documents without even downloading them (useful if they are onsite and have to use external/customer equipment).

For our customers, it means we can have a central location where all documents are held, securely. Exchange customers will have a seamless integration to this new service. We will be rolling this out to our customers over the course of May 2010.

It will be mandatory from June 2010 for all new projects for WEBIT and Anything Hosted to use our new Teamspace.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Office 2010 RTM Released

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:53:29 +0000

Office 2010 RTM has been released on MSDN and Technet for selected Microsoft Partners. We have already been using Office 2010 Beta and RC at WEBIT for many months and plan to deploy the RTM version across all our desktops and laptops over the coming days.

Outlook 2010 will be available to all our Exchange customers from April 30th. Volume Licence keys will be available from May 4th and download links will be sent to all our customers shortly.