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 […]
Yearly archives: 2015
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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 […]
+ In this article, I’m going to take a look at some ways you could generate documentation for ASP.NET Web API. Unless you’ve never generated a Web API website, you’ll be aware that the default templates already include functionality to generate documentation for the API which you might implement, […]
Identity Server 3 supports the Client Credentials OAuth2 grant. I wrote a brief introduction to both OAuth2 and IdentityServer3 last month, this is a follow-on article exploring some other facets of authentication. This is a little bit like basic authentication, in that the client (the application which wants to consume […]
Every now and then I get work done in the home office. I’ve written previously about my setup, but after churning out some solution design today, I sat back and really took some time to appreciate the workspace. I’m really pleased with the configuration, it’s probably the best setup I’ve […]
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 […]
Introduction In recent times, I’ve become very intimately acquainted with OpenID Connect, OAuth2 as well as SAML, JWT, WS-Federation and more. It’s a complicated world. Since I dwell amongst the Microsoft ecosystem, I’m very experienced with Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) which in its latest version supports OAuth2 endpoints […]
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: