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10 May 2006
Enable Remote Desktop Connection through Windows Firewall Remotely
Yesterday evening, I was at home and attempting to remotely connect to my XP desktop machine in the office to access an application which was installed there, but not installed on my laptop. This was over VPN. Now I’ve only had both machines for a few Read More...
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09 May 2006
Internet Explorer Tip - Open new window
Here's a tip I learnt a couple of months ago and meant to post up before - totally forgot. Maybe it's force of habit, but rather than opening a new instance Internet Explorer, going to the address bar and typing in a web page, it's quicker to do start/run Read More...
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28 February 2006
TechNet and Languages in Internet Explorer
I'm sure this isn't going to teach a lot of people anything new, but given I just noticed it myself, I think it's worth mentioning just in case. Due to my recent change of laptop, and the fact that my new laptop doesn't run Windows Server 2003 (actually Read More...
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09 November 2005
Media Center (Centre) - new downloads available
Just noticed that TweakMCE 2.0 is now available for download . My main Media Centre machine was playing up (OK, fair cop, I'd been playing with it, installing Beta software left right and centre) to the extent that I was forced to rebuild it last weekend. Read More...
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31 October 2005
Bizarre Weekend Stuff - Halloween came early
Ghosts in the machine. Literally. I'm helping out at the Oracle User Group in Birmingham tomorrow and Wednesday (yes, it's also running today), and was planning on demonstrating some of the features in the latest Windows Vista build. However, on Sat morning, Read More...
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18 October 2005
Help - IE Keeps opening my spreadsheet. I want to save the darn thing...
I received an email yesterday from a user using Internet Explorer to attempt to download Excel Spreadsheets (.xls extension). They couldn't see an obvious way of stopping Internet Explorer from automatically opening the spreadsheet embedded in the browser, Read More...
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01 September 2005
Windows Vista Fast User Switching on domain joined machines
Woohoo!!! I'm suddenly one very happy person. The killer feature I've been hoping to see in Windows XP Pro is present in Windows Vista Beta 1. No guarantees for the future, but it shows the boys in Redmond have the capability. Here's what it is and why Read More...
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23 August 2005
Vista Beta 1 and Smartcard Readers - USB may be a better option?
For connecting to the Microsoft Corporate Network over VPN, we use connection manager and SmartCards. I've got two PCMCIA smartcard readers, one for each laptop, made by GemPlus. One is the standard GemPlus PC reader, and the other is a GemPlus 400 model. Read More...
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19 August 2005
Vista Beta 1 Internet Explorer 7 problems with some sites
This is fairly well publicised if you look around the Internet, but not in a single place that I could find. Hence, more for my own reference once I blow this beta build away, I'll want to get back to where I am. Certain sites don't recognise IE7 in the Read More...
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11 August 2005
Part 4: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - ISA and WPAD configuration
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. Where we left off, we were able to browse the Internet from clients connected to the intranet, but we had to manually configure the ISA Firewall Client application for the name of the ISA server Read More...
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