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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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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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19 September 2005
Scripting with Monad
Monad is definitely a hot topic to watch in the future. I've just discovered that Jeffrey Snovers two webcasts about Monad are available for on-demand viewing. If you want to find out more about the future of command line scripting, these are a good place 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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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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09 August 2005
Security management column
<wear type="flameproof"> Jeffrey R. Jones, the Director of the Microsoft Security Business Unit has recently completed the fourth and final part of his column on Security Management. It makes interesting reading and worth a spare 15 minutes for 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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20 July 2005
Popup follow-on from yesterday
Well, there is another difference between the msgbox function and popup method as was pointed out to me by several people. Msgbox only displays the first 1024 characters of a dialog whereas popup displays a lot more (I haven't looked to see what the actual Read More...
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19 July 2005
How to automatically dismiss scripted dialogs boxes - alternative to msgbox function
I guess I've been doing a fair bit of scripting recently - admittedly nowhere near as much as I did back in my dev days, but there's always something you learn new. I don't even have a specific use for this, neither was I able to imagine a practical situation Read More...
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05 July 2005
Generic scripted weekly backup solution - your feedback results
Following last weeks post regarding the script I used to back up my home Exchange 2003 SP1 Server running under Virtual Server 2005 on a weekly full backup with daily differential backup, I've received upwards of 30 emails, all positive, thankfully!!! Read More...
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16 May 2005
Bad day at the office - disk help needed please
I know how you all love horror stories, so for what it's worth, here's my sob story for the day. The good news (if there can be such a thing) is that I have a (hopefully) reliable backup of my data as of the end of last week. The bad news is that my Seagate Read More...
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