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Implementing Secure Wireless Networking - Part 2

Continuing the configuration of a secure wireless network, this part deals with configuring the IAS server to recognise authentication requests from your wireless device. The first part of configuring IAS is configuring a RADIUS client. In this case, Read More
posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:59 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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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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Secure Wireless LAN Solution Webcast: Microsoft's Authentication Infrastructure with Aruba Networks' Mobile Edge

This webcast coming up next week took my eye as I've recently put in a (hopefully) secure wireless network at home over the past few weeks since moving over to the US. There's a few blog posts about that and some of the pain which has been involved - Read More
posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:19 PM by jhoward | 0 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 | 4 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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Role Management in Windows Server Longhorn and Windows Server virtualization

Another webcast worth watching. This is relevant for Windows Server virtualization as, if you haven't gathered by now, there are some very fundamental differences between Virtual Server 2005 and Windows Server virtualization. I'm not just talking huge Read More
posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:06 PM by jhoward | 0 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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How to Enable Hardware Assisted Virtualization in VS2005R2 SP1 Beta

Once you install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 1, you'll notice a check box on the properties page for a virtual machine as shown below - it's as simple as checking the box (on by default). Have fun - and remember, this is Beta code - only install Read More
posted Friday, April 28, 2006 10:35 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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Installing or Accessing VSMT help on a Windows XP machine.

I thought this was worth mentioning after I received an email today with a question about VSMT. I answered the email (hopefully with the correct answer!), but would have been able to give a more complete answer if I had had the VSMT help file to hand. Read More
posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:53 PM by jhoward | 0 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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Multimedia Card drive icons in Window Explorer

Still jetlagged :( 2AM again. Maybe tomorrow night I'll get round to sleeping finally! So hands up everyone who's built their own MCE machine - particularly those who have MSDN, for example, and like to "test" :) And... for those MCE machines, keep your Read More
posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:53 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Virtual Machine state not saved on host machine reboot

A common problem you may find under Virtual Server 2005 (including R2) is one which hit me over Christmas after rebuilding on of my Virtual Server hosts. An age old problem which I first encountered probably back in the early days of Exchange 2000 was Read More
posted Friday, January 06, 2006 9:27 AM by jhoward | 4 Comments
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Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 5 of 5

If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. The last part of this mini series is where we setup Read More
posted Friday, December 02, 2005 7:08 PM by jhoward | 12 Comments
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