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ISA Server 2006 TCP Retransmits
14 October 09 03:24 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Health Checks I perform ISA Server Health Checks for Premier Support (via Premier Field Engineering) as part of my role. I’ve seen something a few times recently that I thought it might be helpful to call out, while poking around in the Performance Monitor Read More...
ISA Server 2006 on Windows Server 2008: Nup
05 June 09 02:52 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   
Yuri’s blog explains some of the detail. But there’s slightly more subtlety to it, which I’ll try to snake-oil in front of you here: Can I install ISA 2006 on 32-bit Windows Server 2008 ? No , it only runs on Windows Server 2003. Okay, so technically, Read More...
Vista-Stylez File Management in Windows 7 Beta
18 January 09 11:07 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
If you’re finding file management frustrating because the folder pane seems strangely inactive in the Windows 7 beta, it’s probably because it is. It’s perfect for light filing use, but not so good for folder-stuffing and navigational acrobatics. Which Read More...
Home Hyper-V Networking Gotchas
13 January 09 10:12 PM | tristank | 5 Comments   
Before the holidays, I bought myself an early present: a new quad-core box with 4GB RAM, which I was going to use for a home Hyper-V lab, so that I could run a bunch of 64-bit VMs as well as the 32-bit staples I’ve been using for years (SBS 2003, and Read More...
(ooh!) Foldershare Revamped!
18 March 08 03:00 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   
(This post brought to you by the number 3, and the letters WHY AM I NOT SLEEPING?) It's been a while - and suddenly: Pow! (and did I mention ooh?) A new Foldershare website ! Has the feel of SkyDrive to it. And a big, prominent beta logo. Wonder if that Read More...
Profile-On-A-Stick
05 March 08 03:36 PM | tristank | 4 Comments   
I read items like this with interest. After recently flattening, installing, rebuilding or migrating a bunch of machines, I started to develop my "minimum customized set" that makes my life on a Windows box more comfortable. Jeff blogged a while back Read More...
Windows Server 2008 Desktop Edition
29 February 08 12:44 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   
WS08 Workstation, Anyone?   Apart from those pesky Live applications that won't install (why would anyone ever blog from a Server OS, as I'm doing now? Beats me...), I've had a relatively good run with Windows Server 2008 (x64, naturally) as my desktop Read More...
My Next Laptop - an XT
17 January 08 06:24 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
A new year, another new laptop, incorporating the lessons learned from last time . Interesting choice of nomenclature for the new Dell tablet range. <memory lane> My first PC (mostly-)compatible was an XT-class machine . I think we got it in 1988, Read More...
Office 2007 Ultimate, $AUD75!? Yes, That's Cheaper Than I Can Get It!
19 December 07 05:55 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Back in the day, software used to be quite cheap around here for employees. Then, due to a confluence of unfortunate factors, all involving complicated acronyms (like FBT), Aussie 'softies started paying what could be politely described as unspectacular Read More...
I've gone soft!
21 September 07 12:41 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
Yes, perhaps my friends are right. Or perhaps they're just not nice people. Oh, enough with the trying-to-suspend-the-tension thing, I'm of course talking about my desk phone (a venerable Meridian thingo) being replaced with a Catalina USB phone as part Read More...
Fear The Hand Of Non-Selection
22 July 07 05:30 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
One of those "remember it for when you need it" posts: On Tiny, I've been unable to select text in the Outlook preview pane for about a month. When I tried to select things, I'd get a not-quite-looking-like-the-web-hand hand instead of a selection bar, Read More...
Two New Updates for Aussie Windows Vista Media Centre Owners
15 June 07 04:11 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
The Media Center dev team have been working to address a couple of problems that have particularly affected some Australian Media Centre users, and we now have updates available from Product Support. While the fixes are available, the KB articles documenting Read More...
Quickly* pinging everything on a subnet
25 May 07 02:59 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   
For when you don't remember that you set your wireless gateway's static IP to .253, and it's not showing up in the list of leases on the DHCP server (predictably, but it's not helping your memory, and it's not in the arp cache either...), and you need Read More...
A Tiny Measure Of Progress
15 April 07 12:16 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Prompted by Joseph's lamentations , I thought I'd check on how Tiny was doing in the performance index stakes. Not that I was planning on any schadenfreude or outright gloating, of course. The post from December 2006 has the following details: Original Read More...
Kerbi Wiki
12 April 07 05:35 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
Back from another holiday (I call it the Arnold Rimmer technique) I've been trying to collect, rework and refurbish my thoughts on web-based Kerberos stuff in a personal Wiki. You're welcome to peruse it with the usual disclaimers that I'm frequently Read More...
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