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Armada 2 on VMWare Fusion

Good (whatever time of day it is where you are at), I just got a Mac Book Pro, and it was decided to use VMWare Fusion for the virtualization. Well, I wanted to be able to play armada2 on it, one of my favorite games. It requires Windows XP (unfortunately). And initially running it under XP proved to be challenging. It would flicker between a black screen and the actual game. The fix was to disable the asynchronous cursor in the "options->graphics settings" of the game. It took me a while to fi

Outlook 2011 on the Mac and Exchange 2007+

Had an issue today where the Outlook client on a mac out on the internet would not connect to our exchange server. Turns out that Outlook 2011 requires access to the EWS web services, and probably all other Outlook Anywhere services. We had disabled Outlook Anywhere from the outside, because Outlook on the desktops worked just fine. Once we enabled it for the users, it worked great.