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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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03 August 2008
Do I have the latest BIOS installed? (And a cheap laptop repair)
For Hyper-V to operate correctly, it is strongly advised, and in many cases, required, to install the latest BIOS onto your hardware for hardware virtualization features to operate correctly. While some OEMs provide fantastic information, my experience 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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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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25 April 2006
ISA 2004 Web Publishing HTTP Filter stops default website page URL redirection
Quick questions: In a firewall, if you're presented with a checkbox asking if you want to block requests with ambigious extensions, what would you do? I'm guessing the answer from 99% of you would be "of course, I want to be as secure as I can be". Well, Read More...
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24 April 2006
Website Photo Album Generating Software
Hopefully this will help someone who's not necessarily adept at creating photo web-sites using FrontPage for example. Since moving to Seattle nearly a month ago now, I've been meaning to find a decent way of building a flexible web-site for sharing photos Read More...
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20 April 2006
Register & Unregister a DLL from Windows Explorer
Back in my developer days when I was building DLLs and OCXs, I was constantly registering and unregistering DLLs using the command line (find me a dev who isn't a command line junkie - I still have two prompts open as I type this). As time's gone on, Read More...
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07 April 2006
The switch is on but no-one's home
You'd think this was an easy question to answer - how do you turn the lights on? During the day, it's easy in my new office - turn on the (upside-down) switch on the wall. I've worked in offices before where lights are controlled by dialling numbers on Read More...
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05 April 2006
And time time sponsored by ......urist is 01:02:03 04/05/06
(Sponsor removed to keep legal happy - brits will understand exactly what the subject means!) So it's 29 days early for me (being a Brit who do dates the "correct" way - ie dd/mm/yy, and boy is that still confusing me being over here), but tonight at Read More...
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31 March 2006
Keyboard remapping
So now I'm a little more settled into the office complete with the dual monitors, speakers and a few other creature comforts I didn't have in Microsoft UK, I need to progress onto more practical issues - apart from figuring out why US light switches are Read More...
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08 March 2006
WinTarget software incorporated into Windows Storage Server
Definitely worth looking at as I've been using the WinTarget iSCSI target software on trial for a while now. Microsoft has just acquired the WinTarget software product and will be incorporating it into future versions of Windows Storage Server 2003. A 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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22 February 2006
I'm leaving Microsoft UK, but joining...
In many ways, yesterday was a sad day as I resigned from Microsoft UK after 18 months or so, having decided to take a change in career direction. I'll still be around Microsoft UK for about a month though. However, it certainly wasn't just a sad day, Read More...
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16 February 2006
Cool emerging web technologies
I saw this on Eileens blog a week or so back and thought it was a pretty cool idea. Obviously I have no affiliation with ClustrMaps but thought it was a great way of visualising who in the world is reading my blog and example of (IMHO) what could be considered Read More...
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14 February 2006
Domain joined Windows Vista with Media Centre is coming to town (maybe)
OK, so it's early days yet and anything can change, so this is absolutely not the final word, but several months ago when playing with early Windows Vista builds, I was encouraged that fast user switching on domain-joined Windows Vista machines with Media Read More...
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