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, […]
Infrastructure
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 […]
Federated Identity & The Enterprise – Part 1
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 […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Managing Identity and Securing Your Mobile ...
Well-Architected for Security: Advanced Session : Level 300 Ankush Chowdhary, Head of Security, Risk and Compliance, Professional Services, 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 unstructured, […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Well-Architected for Security: Advanced Session
Cost Optimizing Your Architecture: Practical Design Steps For Developer Savings : Level 300 Simon Elisha, Head of Solution Architecture, ANZ Public Sector, 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 […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Cost Optimizing Your Architecture: Practical Design ...
Automating Event Driven Security in the AWS Cloud : Level 200 Mick McCluney, Technical Director, Trend Micro ANZ ** 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 unstructured, and the photos […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Automating Event Driven Security in the ...
Notes from the AWS Summit Keynote, 30/8/2017 ** 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 unstructured, and the photos might be a bit raw. Sessions: https://aws.amazon.com/summits/canberra-public-sector/sessions/ Detailed: https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/Canberra_Global_Summit_V4.pdf Keynote Presenters: […]
AWS Summit 2017 – Keynote
It’s been a while since my last post, I’ve been off doing the Enterprise Architect work and that has kept me fairly busy. There’s more to follow on the Enterprise Integration principles series of articles, and I swear I’ll get them done sooner rather than later. At the moment I’m […]
Applying updates to Dell PowerEdge servers made easy
This is the beginning of a series of articles focusing on how to identify and leverage value from defining and building mature system integration patterns. Integration is an aspect of system engineering that defines the interaction between two or more different systems to share data and support business solutions across […]
Enterprise Integration – Part 1
4 Windows Server 2016 was launched less than two months ago, and one of the attractive options is an excellent makeover of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). The latest version is stacked with great features and is seriously worth the upgrade. However, I thought I’d point out one of the […]
Windows Server 2016/AD FS – Update Password
Introduction We’re finally here, and luckily for me, Microsoft has published an updated version of the Azure Stack – Technical Preview 2. I was unhappy with the performance of my original configuration (relying far too heavily on iSCSI), so I blew away my first (successful) deployment and reconfigured my server […]
Deploying the Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 – Part 1
Continuing on from the previous article.. I carefully inserted the PowerEdge M910. So that’s where I left off. Jumping straight in, I powered up the enclosure to be greeted with errors. So it turns out that any blade inserted needs its mezzanine cards to be aligned (slotted) to the chassis […]
Preparing for the Azure Stack – Part 2
Introduction Those who know me well, know that I can be a bit crazy at times. Take, for instance, my desire to experiment with the preview of the Microsoft Azure Stack. Most people, when faced with the minimum specifications required to deploy the stack (2xCPUs, minimum of 12 cores and […]
Preparing for the Azure Stack – Part 1
Upgrading from Dynamics CRM 2011 to Dynamics CRM 2016 Microsoft Canberra 29/4 As Dynamics CRM 2011 rapidly approaches end of life, many organisations are looking at potential upgrade paths. Dynamics CRM 2016, the most recent version, was released in December 2015 and represents significant benefit over previous editions. This presentation […]
CRM 2016 – Notes From Presentation
Just a quick entry in case you are trying to solve a problem when attempting to install CRM Reporting Extensions. You might encounter a situation where you specify the SQL Server machine or instance name, but proceeding to select the SSRS instance produces a blank list. So you need to […]