Searching for my lost shaker of salt

Found this out the hard way doing a demo this morning.  I am using VMWare Workstation 6.5 running on Windows 7 Ultimate.  The guest OS is Windows Server 2003.  The issue is the mouse pointer actual location was not the same as where the pointer was on the screen (a parallax error).

I’ve rebooted both OS’s and ensured the screen resolutions made sense.

The issue appears to be with the host OS, Windows 7.  For demo’s I often increase the font scaling of both my guest and host operating systems, so things are readable on projector screens.  The moment I restored the Windows 7 (host) font scaling back down to 100% everything was fine.

There is a setting on Outlook Express that forces all messages to be displayed as plain text.  This is especially true on Windows Server 2003.

Now, before I get flamed the ONLY reason I am running Outlook Express on a server is for a demo.  I do not, would not recommend running OE on a server unless you have a really good reason.

This is the perfect reference that lists all versions of SharePoint, the various cumulative updates, patches, and service packs, links and all.

The easy way to determine what version number you are running is to go into Central Administration | Operations, then click "Servers in Farm".  You'll see the version number next to the server name and roles.