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July 2005 - Posts
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I just stumbled across this 10-step plan to help secure SQL Server 2000 and thought it might be useful to note... Read More...
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I haven't looked at structured query language (SQL) since I was at Uni', back in the early 1990s, and don't intended to start now; but with a major new SQL Server release due from Microsoft in November, I've been building up my knowledge of the product Read More...
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I don't know anything about enterprise resource planning (ERP) products, except that SAP are a big player in this space (and that Microsoft runs its business on SAP with a 1.7Tb SQL Server database - pretty much the only non-Microsoft product in use there). Read More...
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A few days back, Jamie Thomson commented on Microsoft's announcement of Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Longhorn). At the time I speculated as to whether this new name included the next generation Windows server product and it seems not, at least according Read More...
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For a few years now, it's been becoming increasingly difficult to buy a mobile phone handset which was both stylish and a good phone without also getting a whole load of distractions (games, camera, etc.). Now, I have a smartphone (a Nokia 6600), which Read More...
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I just discovered this and think it's really useful... I'm in the process of documenting a client's server configuration, using a virtual machine with a VPN connection to the client's network and then a remote desktop protocol (RDP) connection to their Read More...
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Over the last few weeks, I've been looking at using web proxy auto discovery (WPAD) to let a client's PCs automatically discover the location of their Microsoft ISA Server 2000 web proxy servers through the Internet Explorer client. Note that WPAD is Read More...
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A couple of nights back, I was documenting the rack configuration for a client's data centre. Easy enough using a rack configuration tool from one of the major hardware vendors, except that most of us have multi-vendor rack contents and use Microsoft Read More...
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This is a technology blog and as such, I don't cover politics. I do sometimes work in London though. As do many of my friends and family. And I do like it when somebody uses technology to push home a message - like that WE'RE NOT AFRAID of terrorism. Read More...
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Microsoft have announced the name for the next version of Windows (formerly codenamed Longhorn) - Windows Vista . I'm not overly impressed with the name (how about Windows 2006?) but looks like they are going with it. What's not clear is whether this Read More...
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A few weeks back, I was at a Microsoft TechNet UK event , where Steve Lamb discussed Microsoft's implementation of the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6), available in Windows 2000 service pack 3 or later, Windows XP service pack 1 or later, or Windows Server Read More...
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Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) is often taken for granted - we expect it to work; however there are a few items which need to be considered and this post is intended as a general discussion of DHCP best practice. Most administrators will be Read More...
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A few days back, I blogged about the performance issues I'd experienced with Microsoft's virtualisation products . John Howard's blog reports that Microsoft knowledge base article 903748 was released today, featuring a whole load of performance tips for Read More...
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Back in March, I wrote about some new e-mail message continuity services from FrontBridge . Well, according to a press release just received from Microsoft, FrontBridge is about to become Microsoft's latest acquisition as it steps up its systems management Read More...
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Today is the 36th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings ( thought by some to be a hoax , and by others to be a fantastic scientific achievement on the part of mankind ). To celebrate this, Google has added some NASA imaging to Google Maps and if Read More...
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Yesterday, I stumbled across AuditMyPC , which includes a number of tests (and tips) to help improve PC and network security. Most of the information is available elsewhere on the 'net but it's nice to find it all in one place. What worried me (and convinced Read More...
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I spent most of today trying to get some ISA Server 2000 web proxy clients to access a web application using HTTPS on a non-standard port (4443). The issue was further complicated by the fact that the application server needed to be accessed using an Read More...
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I used to use Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 on my work PC (e.g. running my work environment inside a VM so that I can easily resurrect it after a rebuild ) but I found that performance was abysmal after I resumed from hibernation. Well, it seems it wasn't Read More...
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My colleague Neil Chapman sometimes blogs about Exchange Server's mobility features, including some of what is coming in Exchange Server 2003 service pack 2 (SP2) later this year. Microsoft have also published a preview of the new features we can expect Read More...
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I've received this from a couple of sources and it seems to be both genuine and a really good idea. Since last Thursday's attacks in London , this campaign has gained a lot of momentum and many people will already have received e-mail about this but just Read More...
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A couple of weeks back, one of my clients pointed out that when he opens files from an FTP site using Internet Explorer (IE) as an FTP client his user name and password is displayed in the status bar at the bottom of his browser window. I seem to have Read More...
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I was sorting out my den/office this weekend and came across a Microsoft operational excellence resource CD. The concept seems quite good (although the content seemed a little out of date, even bearing in mind that it had sat in a pile of "stuff to look Read More...
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Following yesterday's atrocities in London , it was widely reported that the mobile phone networks collapsed under the strain of those caught up in the chaos trying to contact their friends, family, work colleagues and vice versa. In a statement from Read More...
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Alex and I were having a rant discussion a few days back about web standards after I pointed out to him that Firefox and Safari not being able to supply login credentials within a URL meant they were not RFC-compliant in this respect (and he accused me Read More...
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A few weeks back, my colleague Barry Feist gave me a useful tip for when deploying software using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). Barry doesn't have his own blog, so here are the details. Details of commands executed on the local machine by Read More...
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Last year, my private blog carried a post about understanding, and developing with, SharePoint products and technologies and a few months back I attended a workshop on designing IT platform collaborative applications with Microsoft SharePoint 2003 . I Read More...
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A few weeks back I was looking at migrating users between forests using ADMT when the source and target domain names are similar . It worked in my virtual environment but when we went to put it into practice there were some issues caused by different Read More...
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I use Windows Notepad a lot and, a few months back, I posted a tip for Send to... Notepad to help people open text files from a context-sensitive right click. Whilst watching me struggle to edit a load of text files with strange file extensions (as he Read More...
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Yesterday's Live 8 concerts were a fantastic spectacle. I know that many critics doubt the effect that the Live 8 campaign can have; and as this is a technology blog I will put aside the politics, but one thing the Live 8 event has done is to grab the Read More...
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Alex 's post about his first home computer got me reminiscing about mine - a Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ . Then I remembered having an emulator for one a few years ago but couldn't find it anywhere until I stumbled across World of Spectrum , which features Read More...
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