Author Archives: Niall

Back to the UK for SQLBits again

One year on and I find myself in a similar situation to last year only this time I’m not in Boulder, Colorado I’m in Corpus Christi, Texas.  The other constant is that I’m lucky enough to be able to attend … Continue reading

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SharePoint site suddenly Read Only even for Administrators!

So at some point in time something had happened to our SharePoint 2010 server to cause what appeared to be a total lock down on the SharePoint sites. It must have been something strange, something weird, who knows what but … Continue reading

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Cannot send SMTP mail on port 25, try port 587

I didn’t really want to blog about this, but it’s such a well-known piece of information I’d never heard of.  Most of this blog post is for my own records but if it’s useful to you too that’s great. Having … Continue reading

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NiallBest.com one year anniversary

I thought it important to me that I should mark the first anniversary of my blog with a roundup post of the first year online for NiallBest.com. My original goal of the site was to record interesting events and answers … Continue reading

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Travel Tips

I find it strange in this day of Internet enabled devices and Skype meetings that companies pay for their tech people to fly round the world to setup hardware and explain systems to senior management in person rather than via … Continue reading

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