Introduction This was ideally supposed to be one of the (logically) first entries in a series of articles about the newly minted Microsoft Windows 10. However, owing to some of the more controversial aspects of the default settings in Windows 10, I felt compelled to do a quick write-up on […]
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Intro Windows 10 was officially released last week. In the wake of the release, concerns have surfaced about privacy and control issues which are enabled by default in all popular versions of the new Windows – including Enterprise edition. We’ll take a look at what reasonable steps you could (or […]
As long time readers of Sanders Technology are no doubt are aware, I rarely install operating systems on bare metal (non-virtual) systems. Partly this is a practical measure, there are a lot of releases if you take into account pre-release and beta versions, and partly an issue of convenience. Therefore, […]
The big news today is the launch of Microsoft Windows 10. About eight hours ago, the RTM builds were made available to MSDN subscribers, although network congestion has made it very difficult to get a clean download. You can also look at upgrading via the free upgrade route as well. […]
Since I’ve been writing this year about mobile accessories, the next logical step was to literally take things on the road. In car phone options have been around for years, however what to do with all these smart phones which are so prevalent these days? Most modern cars seem to […]
Introduction Continuing from the experience with Visual Studio 2013, the next edition – Visual Studio 2015 – was officially released to MSDN subscribers early this morning. This edition follows the trend established in the previous edition of providing two channels of licensing – by using a Microsoft Account or by […]
Today I started down the path of getting the previously-named “Business Intelligence Studio” (now called SQL Server Data Tools) up and running on my local machine. I already had SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) 2014 installed, but had just never gotten around to installing the BI development suite. I’m going to […]
Recently I had an old Microsoft Azure subscription ready to expire, yet I still had some resources linked to the outgoing subscription in question. Some of the active websites on another subscription still used SQL Databases on the old subscription. If you find yourself needing to move Azure assets between […]
At the start of this month, Microsoft released another preview edition of the upcoming next edition to the Windows operating system franchise. This is Preview 10074, and contains a few very interesting changes. I ran up the Preview image earlier today to take a look at what’s new. Installing Windows […]
Tonight I finally got around to installing the recently released Windows Server Technical Preview 2, which was published around the time of the annual BuildConf in the US. So I ran up a Hyper-V image and hit the standard product selection screen. I was greeted, as it has been rumoured, […]
Given the serious investment we place in our modern smartphones, it makes a whole lot of sense to also spare a thought for how we protect these pocket sized technical innovations. A busy demanding modern lifestyle can put your mobile device at significant risk of accidental damage in a myriad […]
We’re so very close to Visual Studio 2015’s launch. The Release Candidate (RC) is pretty much the last of the community pre-release versions before it hits the RTM (release to manufacturing) edition. Here’s the configuration I’ll be playing with:
In recent years, we’ve seen some outstanding developments in mobile telephony. One such innovation has been the introduction of Qi (inductive power standard) wireless charging. For the most part, the majority of modern mobile handsets (except iPhones!) now include Qi wireless charging as standard. For most others there are phone […]
Today I went on an unusual journey, and it involved paying the price for configuring Microsoft’s web server (specifically, IIS 8.0 and 8.5) with scant regard for why it works the way it does. Let me start at the beginning.. As of Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.0 (Windows Server 2012) […]
Windows Server 2012 R2 comes with IIS 8.5, and in this release an issue has been found in relation to the Dynamic Compression module. The module sets the “Vary” header which is used to specify caching properties that the browser uses to determine whether the response should be cached or […]