November 2005 - Posts

Delegation, Delegation, Delegation, Delegation
28 November 05 05:19 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

If I had a buck for every time someone came to me with a problem accessing their SQL Server from a website (in Windows authentication mode, not SQL authentication, naturally), I'd have about four bucks. That's good , because I'm not meant to be the go-to Read More...

Filed under: Developery, IT Pro / Sysadmin

ISA 2004 EE: UnicastInterHostCommSupport is enabled by ISA
14 November 05 05:14 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Quickie: When used to configure NLB for an array, ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition enables the NLB parameter UnicastInterHostCommSupport , available in Windows Server 2003 SP1 and later. This means that all other things being equal (eg, your rule set Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking

Thanks, but no thanks.
11 November 05 01:57 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

My trial decoder run of Intervideo's WinDVD decoder expired at home mid-week, so I tried out PureVideo one last time, but it didn't seem to be deinterlacing well at all, despite the settings I used. So, my Nvidia problem is essentially solved now, by Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

The Windows Defender Blog
07 November 05 07:04 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Finally , someone in marketing decided that a product name could be both functional and cool! Windows Defender has to be the best product name since, oh, um, Proxy Server 2.0. Sort of. The Antimalware team (I read it as "animalware" twice , curse my eyes) Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking, Security

PasteOff Scripting
07 November 05 07:03 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Another real quickie: Anders from Sweden has just started a blog, and posted an interesting tip/script fragment for PasteOff , using Explorer to view the folder that the file was just saved to. That's pretty useful when you want to do whatever it is afterwards. Read More...

Filed under: Developery, IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

FolderShare Rocks!
07 November 05 02:25 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

That's all*. I hadn't even heard of FolderShare before the announcement that we'd acquired them, but having just synced my first few files and folders, I'm going to be using it much more. I found the setup a little counter-intuitive (in that I hadn't Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Networking

OWA 2003: The Top Eleven Hidden Features
01 November 05 04:42 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

Caught over at the Exchange Team blog, an article full of useful tips. My new best friend is going to be the equals sign: Putting an = in front of the e-mail alias that you are trying to resolve when composing a mail will automatically resolve it to any Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Networking

So perhaps starting a sentence with "so" isn't a bad thing?
01 November 05 02:19 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Up until today, I was all for the casual throttling of anyone that started the response to a question with " so ". I was going to implement a "so jar" at my desk. All profits to the grammar police, natch. Q: What's new in Windows Server 2003? A: So we Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature