If you have a Windows Server 2008 installation of the Server Core, you might run into a few nasty surprises when it comes time to administer the nuts and bolts of the configuration. The reliance on GUI tools causes some pain from an administration perspective, and when you come to […]
Businesses prepare for .branding campaign. International domain name regulator ICANN will next year introduce generic top-level domains (gTLD) beyond the familiar .com, .org and .net. The decision followed a majority vote at ICANN’s board meeting in Singapore this afternoon, despite concerns raised by its Governmental Advisory Committee. The board planned […]
Sometimes, for various reasons, we come across projects or solutions we have to maintain to our chagrin. We have an application which runs on .NET 2.0 and can’t be upgraded to 3.5 or beyond. This application consumes web services published via the old ASMX services, and uses Web Service Extensions […]
For those who use a non-standard smartphone or PDA phone, it can be especially hard to determine the appropriate settings for your chosen carrier. In Australia, I have used Vodafone, Virgin Mobile (Optus) and SOUL/TPG (Optus) which varying levels of success. Recently, I managed to get my handset back onto […]
Should you have the misfortune of encountering MS Build warning MSB3268, you might be in for a world of hurt. That is exactly what has happened to me this fine day. The exact problem is: Microsoft.Common.targets(1360,9): warning MSB3268: The primary reference "<assembly reference>" could not be resolved because it has […]
Welcome to World IPv6 day, which is being held today, June 8th, 2011. Just what is World IPv6 day? Today industry leaders will switch parts of their infrastructure over from IPv4 to IPv6 in a move designed to increase awareness of the impending migration to the new protocol. Why now? […]
In case you hadn’t already heard, Microsoft have released a comprehensive set of new web development features and tools designed to enhance rapid web application development in the form of Web Matrix. Today’s article will focus on Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Express, which is a “light” version of Microsoft’s […]
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 […]
Following on from the controversy in April this year of software maker Red Gate’s baffling decision to rescind the gratis (free) nature of Lutz Roeder’s tremendously popular .Net CLR Decompiler, .Net Reflector (which Red Gate acquired in 2008), a number of projects have sprung up to fill the gap in […]
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: […]
So this is a pretty short (but hopefully useful) post to show you how to add to a list of “trusted servers” much alike Internet Explorer’s trusted sites options. In short, adding the address of servers allows the browser to “pass through” your user’s credentials when it tries to resolve […]
Recently I was referred to Roger Clarke’s blog for a very interesting and compelling breakdown of popular social media website LinkedIn.com’s terms and conditions. In this age of social media dominance (be it LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or another SNS) it does seem like consumer rights take a modest back seat […]
If you are migrating projects from previous versions of Visual Studio, you might intend to upgrade the project files to be compatible with Visual Studio 2010, but you may not want to necessarily upgrade to the latest version of the .Net Framework (v4.0) until you have properly tested compatibility. Fair […]
Please accept my apologies for the lack of activity. We’ve recently relocated back into the heart of downtown Sydney, and it has taken several weeks to get re-established. We still don’t have Internet connectivity at home – but when we do, I’ll be posting numerous new posts, so check back […]
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 […]