• Microsoft Certified Master – 5 Years On

    Time flies. It’s now been 5 years since I completed the Exchange 2007 Microsoft Certified Master course in not so sunny Redmond. That was MCM rotation 4, which was the last Exchange 2007 rotation. If memory serves me correctly we started on the...
  • Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.7

    The venerable Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) 2.2 was starting to show its age. After a slight hiatus, RDCMan 2.7 is now available. Please say thank you to Julian Burger for the early Christmas present. Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan...
  • Retrieving Cluster Error 1135 From Servers

    In some of the recent posts you will have noted that there have been some issues with VMware , and also network cards dropping packets in packets received discarded . One symptom of this is that nodes will be removed from the cluster and EventID 1135...
  • Critical Schannel Vulnerability - MS14-066

    In the November 2014 security bulletin there were 14 updates released. The updates resolved security issues in IE, OLE and Schannel. It is the latter that is worth calling out for attention since this is the basis of the Microsoft implementation of SSL...
  • Windows 10 Poor Graphics Performance

    Since there will be a good few folks running Windows 10 who subscribe to the RSS feed, I though it would worthwhile sharing a recent issue I had with my Windows 10 laptop. This is a Lenovo W530 with ample CPU, SSD and video card performance. It should...