This is just a short article – lost a day investigating this so I wanted to get something up for any one else who run into this. The background was a clean installation on a Windows 2016 server running Exchange 2016. No errors or issues reported during that install. The installer was downloaded as normal […]
Given the “imminent” demise of Windows 7 – this was an interesting one which may well be Windows 7 specific. A client had been accessing a desktop PC via RDP across a VPN when they reported a error. The dialogue read “Your computer could not connect to another console session because you already have a […]
Recently after a reboot of my workstation I got a orange/brown box with the message that there was an update being applied to my Office 2019 installation when attempting to start Outlook. Outlook didn’t in fact start – instead giving an error after a few seconds of the update message being displayed. The message was […]
For a recent project I needed to provide access to a vmware virtual machine image and the tool of choice was VMWare workstation pro. If you haven’t used it – the product enables you to develop, test, demonstrate, and deploy software by running multiple x86-based Windows, Linux, and other operating systems simultaneously on the same […]
Neo4J came to my attention some time ago when researching a project for a client. When I looked at the requirements a graph database sprang to mind and I did some research – out popped Neo4J. After taking it for a quick spin – I was impressed by the resources available and the community around […]
In discussion with a colleague around the tools we use for debugging and diagnosing issues with local area networks and internet access – I happened to mention a tool I had just come access. The Netool.io is a hardware device which they describe as a Network Engineering Tool. The best way to think of this […]
WinSCP is a free SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. You can use it to copy files between a local computer and remote servers using FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, WebDAV or S3 file transfer protocols. In a recent project I was using it to transfer a number of VMs between old and new […]
If you maintain or use a Draytek Vigor 3900 / 2960 or 300B – there is a CRITICAL firmware update available in the form of 1.5.1. As well as providing security enhancements there are a number of new features and updates that will be of interest. Its good practice to do a backup before […]
