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09 August 2008
Connection Manager Administration Kit for Vista
Curiosity got the better of me. When I was analyzing why Hyper-V Remote Management didn't always work over a VPN connection due to DNS the other day, I mentioned that I wasn't familiar with the replacement technology for CMAK in Windows Server 2003. Well, Read More...
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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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23 December 2005
Backing up Windows Sharepoint Services
Although I have a fair few ideas as to mini-projects to complete over the Christmas & New Year holiday, it will probably come as no surprise to many of you that there is always the possibility that family will get in the way ;) On the assumption that Read More...
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24 November 2005
Part 23: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - OWA back to HTTPS
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. We now move Outlook Web Access back to HTTPS, and we correct a naming error on the Network Listener "FBA LocalHost 443" in the last part (it's actually listening and remains listening on port Read More...
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27 October 2005
Task manager additional network information
Living proof that no matter how much you use Windows on a daily basis, there's always something somewhere you find which strikes you as "wow, never knew that". Although I have a custom performance monitor MMC snap-in at home, for example, for monitoring Read More...
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16 September 2005
Making Robocopy faster
I use Robocopy a great deal to copy stuff from corpnet in a reliable way onto my laptop. One huge advantage of robocopy is that you can set it to copy in restartable mode, and if the network connection fails, it can take off from where it got to. Therefore, Read More...
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13 September 2005
Free Technet Magazine Subscription
...but only if you're US based. I know I get readers from all over the world, and know many of you are US based. I'm hoping to follow up with the powers that be to see if we can get some free subscriptions also in the UK too! The Technet Magazine , Microsofts 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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17 August 2005
Part 5: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - Exchange mailbox and Outlook Profile
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. The next stage in our infrastructure is to extend our infrastructure by building in one of the most important infrastructure applications - email. Our configuration uses Exchange 2003, and the Read More...
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12 August 2005
Network diagram correction
Well spotted to the people who noticed the deliberate mistake on my network diagram to support the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. The inet.external.net machine representing the Internet and my ISP should indeed by on IP address 172.16.8.1, 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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05 August 2005
IT Forum 2005 - Barcelona
The Microsoft IT Forum 2005 web-site is now live to take registrations. The agenda is being formulated now and will be going live in the next few weeks. This is a major event for IT Professionals in Europe (or even further in many cases) with many high-profile Read More...
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03 August 2005
Part 2: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - ISA 2004 rules to allow web browsing
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. Yesterday, we saw an overview of our network infrastructure and started diagnosing why Internet browsing from our corporate network was not working. In part 2 of this blogcast series on infrastructure Read More...
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02 August 2005
Part 1: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - Getting started
Part 1. Starting with the basics .... (it does get more complex, a lot more complex, I assure you). In this blogcast , you see an overview of the infrastructure and browse the "emulated" Internet using a client machine connected directly to the Internet. Read More...
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01 August 2005
Blogcast Series: Infrastructure essentials
I've been busy over the past few days recording a series of blogcasts about setting up the essentials for a typical well-managed infrastructure. The network so far consists of six machines as shown in the diagram below. The intention of these blogcasts Read More...
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