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This is probably the coolest feature I’ve ever seen, in any piece of software. If you don’t feel the same by time you’re done reading this, then perhaps you’ll agree it’s easily the coolest and easiest way to provide users with remote access to network resources. DirectAccess was introduced in the last generation of Windows … Read more
On Friday, one of my co-workers and I decided to hash out a better way for us to find out that customers had added a reply to a help desk ticket. The idea was to poll the database for new comments, but only to have the script notify us if it was new within the … Read more
To be honest, I didn’t think I would ever write something praising IIS. I use Apache, though I know alternatives like lighttpd and nginx exist. But Apache is tried, tested, and proven to work. It certainly has its flaws (all software do), but it works well and to my liking. Upon seeing what IIS 8 … Read more
I have a bone to pick with the “Transportation On Patrol” initiative that Aboutown entered into with London Police Services last year. I don’t know why I haven’t written about this until now, but I just saw an Aboutown taxi van with a sticker promoting the initiative across the top of the windshield, so it … Read more
Windows Server 2012 was released just a few short weeks ago, and from what I’ve seen and read it is a significant improvement over the venerable Windows Server 2008 R2. While deploying Windows Server 2012 in a small business environment may seem like overkill, I have reason to believe it’s actually a very smart decision … Read more