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This was my weekend to fend off the tech challenges I’d been avoiding for almost a week. And as Stewie of “Family Guy” would say, “Victory was mine.”

 

– Installed Service Pack 2 for Office 2007. First of all, it weights in at over 300 megs (and no, that was not a typo. It was 300 megs). Second of all, I love it. Outlook and Word load and close noticeably faster. Without broadband, I wouldn’t even consider downloading this important update.

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– Some will call me lazy, but I have always opted for the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser vice using a third party browser.  Yes, I know I could use something else, but there really is no compelling reason for me to switch. Having said that, I installed the new MS IE8 on all of my machines except the server late last week.  Friday, the server notified me via a red icon on my desktop that it had an important update for me to install. I said “do it” and the server installed what turned out to be the IE8 update for 2003 server. No biggie, right? Wrong! Turns out IE8 broke one of my best server add-ins, Advance Admin Console (AAC).

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