Our environment is interesting. For a variety of reasons, the Development, QA, Integration and UAT environments have been partitioned from the Corporate AD forest for a long time. This year we’re attempting to move Development, QA, UAT and Integration into one new AD forest to simplify management of the server […]
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Coming across my desktop today.. and courtesy of a posting on Slashdot.. comes a very interesting article which documents how Windows Vista and later versions of Microsoft Windows uses network location awareness and the Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI) to determine aspects of your computer’s networking configuration. From the article: […]
If you’ve ever wanted to have an installation of Team Foundation Server 2010 use a standalone or existing instance of SharePoint Server (2010) then you’ve likely needed to install Extensions for SharePoint on the MOSS server. If, like me, you encountered the following error whilst trying to configure the extensions […]
Do you have a mobile phone which doesn’t work with voicemail or any online phone systems where you have to manually key in numbers? Most phones and handsets have no problem, but for a while now my Motorola wasn’t playing ball. It turns out that somehow the DTMF setting was […]
Recently Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 systems. In the tradition of Microsoft, there are several different sources for information on Service Packs… so here is another link. There are significant advancements in the Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 release, not that much has been added […]
The IEEE Society and Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) are presenting two free public seminars on recent developments in the Internet sphere including the “Kill Switch” used in Egypt and Libya, Wikileaks and beyond. This should prove a very timely event, given the recent developments concerning the Internet, and I’m […]
Recently, I’ve come to find a lot of spare time on my hands and today I decided that I’ve been sitting on the sidelines long enough; it’s time I got my head into the various APIs and pricing models involved in “Cloud Computing”. There’s a good reason I’ve been waiting […]
Hi All, If you’ve ever been curious about Domain Names, it might be worth a look at the Domain Name Tracking website. It’s got some handy domain tools like WHOIS lookup, a URI parser, and a way to look up second and third level extensions by country. and a handy […]
If you use Team Explorer (or the TFS client components) and have to configure to connect using a proxy, you might find yourself a little stumped. Fortunately for us former Readify and current Microsoft TFS guru Grant Holliday provides excellent insight into how to solve this problem, via Stack Overflow. […]
Hello there. Internet network neutrality has been a hot topic for some years now, and doesn’t appear to be cooling down at any time. Recently the United Nations has throw its collective hats into the ring in an attempt to form some sort of global governing body.One of the fathers […]
Here is a quick guide to creating a bootable USB thumb drive or USB stick under Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 (R2). This guide is intended to show you how to create a bootable USB drive, however it is advice only. Sanders Technology will not be held […]
What is a Botnet? Well, in a nutshell, a Botnet is a internetworked series of computers which are running distributed software. The more notorious form of Botnet (and the topic of this post) typically infects other computers using a variety of attacks and vulnerabilities, increasing their overall size and computing […]
Somewhat hot off the press comes word that the September 2010 release of Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server Power Tools has hit the Internet. If you are into installing some great add-ins for Visual Studio you might also want to take a look at the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio […]
Thursday morning started pretty well the same as every weekday. I’m sure you know how it goes; you go through the motions to get yourself prepared for the day, shower, dress, eat breakfast and so on. On my way out the door I get an SMS – “Janet (not her […]
As it turns out, the idea of filtering the Internet is hardly a new one. In the mid 90s, the CSIRO was asked to investigate the feasibility of filtering Australia’s Internet traffic. The final report is available for reading here. You may be surprised (or not) to learn that the […]