Author Archives: James

On this twenty-third day of April 2010, I was duly admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. No storm troopers like at my fiancee’s graduation,  however there was someone in chainmail a few rows in front of me. Thanks UC, great feeling to finally be a graduate! Look forward to doing [...]

We sometimes use an extension for testing out modems, so rather than having to add a ’9′ to the start of the ISP phone number, it would be nice to be able to dial straight out. Here the ISP numbers start with 0867, so I thought why not create an outgoing dialing rule which doesn’t [...]

Just installed a new WSUS server and obviously got a little heavy handed on the auto-approve settings. Logged onto one of the student PCs today and found a big PowerShell folder in the start menu. Mind you, I would be suprised if they actually managed to do anything interesting with it.

I presumed it was a given that Sharepoint would be able to run on Server 2008 Web Edition, however I was mistaken, and found out the hard way when the prerequisite installer wouldn’t work on a shiny new VM. The prerequisite installer was failing immediately when trying to setup the IIS role, giving the message [...]