Microsoft’s formerly code name “Project Volterra”, now known as the Windows Dev Kit 2023 has arrived. It’s basically a NUC running a quite powerful ARM processor, some kick ass memory and a half TB built-in SSD. Device specifics 32GB LPDDR4x RAM and 512GB fast NVMe storage Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 […]
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Happy Friday! I thought I’d close out the week with a “sneak preview” of what higher order Enterprise Architecture sometimes looks like. Below is a value chain as modelled in an EA tool which was posted to LinkedIn (see sources). At later stages of EA maturity, principally once core/fundamentals are […]
This is a two-part series of posts. The first day covered Modules 1 & 2, and the second day, Modules 3 & 4. Owing to the pace of the training, I only managed screen shots and sporadic notes. The Q&A section is the most rewarding, I’ve added them at the […]
Day 1 – Azure Fundamentals This is a two-part series of posts. The first day covered Modules 1 & 2, and the second day, Modules 3 & 4. https://aka.ms/azfunpath Module 1 Compute, Storage, TCO, HA – shared responsibility, scale, elasticity, fault tolerance (MS manages) DR, Global, Latency, economies of scale, […]
Hello. You may not want your install of Microsoft Office products linked to a “Microsoft Account”, yet the product seems to force the issue? After entering a valid product key, do you receive this forced modal dialog, which forces you to link an account? (note: doesn’t seem to be forced […]
Hello. For a while now, I’ve been relying on a local time method for my test domain, and it’s finally caused me to go nuts. The time lag has been out to 20-30 minutes and it’s annoying to say the least. I did some Googling and found this excellent TechNet […]
What’s in a name? Last year through a series of unfortunate events I lost my foundation domain name – sanders technology [dot com] and was forced to register the dot net version instead. I’d held the dot com domain for over a decade and a half, and during that time […]
There’s times when you need to run an unsigned PowerShell script on Windows Server for convenience, for example when you pull it down from online. A word of warning – obviously – you need to know what any script does before you ever execute it – especially with privilege. Now, […]
Merry Christmas all! This year my kids unpacked an Anki Overdrive: Fast and the Furious race track and associated parts – all anticipated of course. What is Anki Overdrive? Anki: Supported Devices We celebrated the day at our new “offsite” location (holiday home) in a part of New South Wales […]
As part of some work I recently undertook, I developed a number of “cheat sheets” which are often introduced into trade studies to try and apply a “like for like” comparison across competing services. Google has a number of services and application offerings to provide enterprise grade cloud solutions to […]
As part of some work I recently undertook, I developed a number of “cheat sheets” which are often introduced into trade studies to try and apply a “like for like” comparison across competing services. Amazon Web Services is a comprehensive ecosystem of cloud services, and there are many different service […]
Today I found myself in an odd situation where I wanted to access the SQL Server instance of a Windows Update Services (WSUS) instance, so I could perform some basic maintenance to reduce the DB’s disk and memory footprint. This instance of WSUS has been running for a few […]
Introduction There’s no doubt that we are living in a highly connected era, partially driven by an ever expanding consumption model where technology is sustained by a growing list of different models and service providers. The established, old world, architecture which used to define a monolithic corporate IT infrastructure is […]
An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership CORY DOCTOROWSEPTEMBER 18, 2017https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membershipDear Jeff, Tim, and colleagues,In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” an API whose sole function was to provide a first-class role […]
Managing Identity and Securing Your Mobile and Web Applications with Amazon Cognito : Level 300 Stephen Liedig, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services ** Note: These are notes taken from various sessions and the keynote of the 2017 AWS Public Sector Summit held in Canberra, Australia. The information might be slightly […]