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Implementing Secure Wireless Networking - Part 1

So I've got a few blog posts which piece together something I've been trying to do (and finally got working) since moving to Seattle. Namely - set up a secure wireless network. Now, I did have a wireless network at home when I was in England, but it wasn't Read More
posted Monday, August 14, 2006 10:16 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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Shadow Copy failures: Scheduled task fails with General page initialization failed, error 0x8007000d.

I've rippled through quite a few nagging problems since my server failure at home a few weeks ago. One of the more intriguing problem I only noticed a couple of days ago. One server had not been running scheduled Shadow Copies. When you schedule shadow Read More
posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:00 AM by jhoward | 5 Comments
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The UK isn't what it used to be

All because I left, I guess ;) So (IMHO), one of the great things about the TechNet evenings on the Microsoft UK Campus in Reading was the availability of beer & pizza at the break. (Of course, before I get blasted with comments about encouraging Read More
posted Friday, June 16, 2006 1:05 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Microsoft Codename Whistler Advanced Server is alive and well

Well nearly anyway. Long story about how I found this one, but if you run the Windows XP SP2 32-bit winver.exe on a Windows Server 2003 x64 SP1 machine, you get the screen shot below :) Maybe I should file a bug? Cheers,John. Read More
posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:21 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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World Cup Football scores on your computer

English football, that will be :) Just seen a new download posted a couple of days ago incorrectly named "Microsoft Soccer Scorecard" to keep track of the world cup scores. I can't say I'm much of a football fan, but I do like watching England play in Read More
posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:52 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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The NUL device is useful for supressing "Press any key to continue"

Long time scripters will, I'm sure, know this. Useful to mention as I was writing a script over the long weekend (it was memorial day here in the US yesterday - makes up for the many UK bank holidays I've missed over the past couple of months!) which Read More
posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:58 AM by jhoward | 3 Comments
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How to remove a failed server from DFS in Windows Server 2003 R2

This week has been a little strained, hence quiet on the blogging front. Apart from a hectic week at work (more to follow on that shortly), the reason was a "disaster" which happened late last Sunday evening - everything was working at home one moment, Read More
posted Saturday, May 20, 2006 8:12 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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Enable Remote Desktop Connection through Windows Firewall Remotely

Yesterday evening, I was at home and attempting to remotely connect to my XP desktop machine in the office to access an application which was installed there, but not installed on my laptop. This was over VPN. Now I’ve only had both machines for a few Read More
posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:29 PM by jhoward | 10 Comments
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Internet Explorer Tip - Open new window

Here's a tip I learnt a couple of months ago and meant to post up before - totally forgot. Maybe it's force of habit, but rather than opening a new instance Internet Explorer, going to the address bar and typing in a web page, it's quicker to do start/run Read More
posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 6:18 AM by jhoward | 5 Comments
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ISA 2004 Web Publishing HTTP Filter stops default website page URL redirection

Quick questions: In a firewall, if you're presented with a checkbox asking if you want to block requests with ambigious extensions, what would you do? I'm guessing the answer from 99% of you would be "of course, I want to be as secure as Read More
posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:35 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Website Photo Album Generating Software

Hopefully this will help someone who's not necessarily adept at creating photo web-sites using FrontPage for example. Since moving to Seattle nearly a month ago now, I've been meaning to find a decent way of building a flexible web-site for sharing photos Read More
posted Monday, April 24, 2006 2:04 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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Register & Unregister a DLL from Windows Explorer

Back in my developer days when I was building DLLs and OCXs, I was constantly registering and unregistering DLLs using the command line (find me a dev who isn't a command line junkie - I still have two prompts open as I type this). As time's gone on, Read More
posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:20 AM by jhoward | 5 Comments
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The switch is on but no-one's home

You'd think this was an easy question to answer - how do you turn the lights on? During the day, it's easy in my new office - turn on the (upside-down) switch on the wall. I've worked in offices before where lights are controlled by dialling numbers Read More
posted Friday, April 07, 2006 6:19 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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And time time sponsored by ......urist is 01:02:03 04/05/06

(Sponsor removed to keep legal happy - brits will understand exactly what the subject means!) So it's 29 days early for me (being a Brit who do dates the "correct" way - ie dd/mm/yy, and boy is that still confusing me being over here), but tonight at three Read More
posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:02 AM by jhoward | 4 Comments
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Keyboard remapping

So now I'm a little more settled into the office complete with the dual monitors, speakers and a few other creature comforts I didn't have in Microsoft UK, I need to progress onto more practical issues - apart from figuring out why US light switches Read More
posted Friday, March 31, 2006 12:56 AM by jhoward | 7 Comments
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