Category Archives: Microsoft

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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Time for Windows server 2008 and NTP

The UK switched to BST (British Summer Time) on the 27th March and while the idea of altering the time dependent on the position of the planet in its orbit around the sun can be questioned the need for servers and … Continue reading

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Unidentified networks in Windows how to make them private

If you have a network connection in your Network and Sharing Centre that Windows is classifying as an “Unidentified Network” chances are you want to make it private for your firewall rules. The problem is that because Windows cannot classify … Continue reading

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FileZilla Server passive settings

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) may seem a bit old hat in the days of peer-to-peer but is still one of the most widely used transfer protocols, especially in business. The biggest problem with FTP is that in order to create … Continue reading

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