Category Archives: Microsoft

Entering Exchange 2010 Product Key After installation

I had to install Exchange 2010 on a 120day trial for a client recently.  The planned weekend for the down time had arrived but the new partner licenses had not.  No bother I thought, it will be easy to enter … Continue reading

Posted in Exchange Server, Microsoft, Servers | 7 Comments

SQLBits 7

I’m back from my first SQLbits held in York last week and it was a great experience, something I will be urging all computer professionals who interact with SQL Server to attend in future. Unfortunately I couldn’t attend the full … Continue reading

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Back to the UK for SQLBits

So after a fun time in Boulder Colorado, USA I’m heading home to the UK again.  Just in time too as I thought I was going to miss the largest SQL server conference in Europe, SQLBits. I’m really pleased that … Continue reading

Posted in Conference, SQL Server | 1 Comment

WCF POST test harness

Writing RESTful JSON services with WCF is fun; in fact I do it for a living.  One thing that every developer finds useful is a small program for testing calls, trying new ideas etc so here is my C# test … Continue reading

Posted in .Net, Microsoft, Testing, WCF | 2 Comments

Using Windows Azure tables to persist session data

Being able to store session data is arguably one of the reasons that the Web features the dynamic applications we all use every day.  If it wasn’t for the session we would have a fairly boring static Web experience. Windows … Continue reading

Posted in ASP.net, Azure, Cloud Computing, Microsoft | 8 Comments