This post is a technical one. I am posting for my own notes and hopefully to assist anyone else who might run into the same issue. Problem Scenario SharePoint 2013 Farms can be configured with high-availability using the new SQL Server 2012 Always-On clustering feature. Initially Microsoft had very limited support for databases that were […]
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Microsoft has published a critical update to the Schannel component in all versions of Windows. Reports are suggesting this vulnerability is on the same scale as Heartbleed and Shellshock vulnerabilities that effected open-source platforms earlier this year. This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft Secure Channel (Schannel) security package in Windows. The vulnerability
As many schools and business look to deploy a BYOD solution hoping to answer their end-device management problems, most will come across white-papers and marketing literature that attempts to convince decision makers of the challenges BYOD presents and potential business risks that are created as a result of BYOD programs. Don’t get me wrong, BYOD can create business risk
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For those who work in the education sector, please check out this video. Fortunately, the school where I work has embraced much of the suggestions mentioned in this talk. I feel its important to spread the word in the hope that other schools and school leaders are inspired to make change in their own environments. If your school is not
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For some reason I hadn’t posted this video. I have had it sitting in my drafts for more than a year; I might have planned to write an editorial and just never got around to it. By any count Sir. Ken has to be ranked in the top 10 educators globally and who has been pushing education reform for many years. He has certainly made his mark in terms of
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Microsoft has just launched a technical preview of a new application that will join the Office family called ‘Sway’. I am interested as this new tool seems to be a re-invented web-friendly Publisher cross between PowerPoint and some Prezi attributes. As you can see from the video above and the sample Sway I have embedded in this post, the
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Yesterday Microsoft gave us a first look at a very early Technical Preview of the next version of Windows. So much speculation has been floating around the web on what is coming next, many thought the name was going to be Windows 9, and others speculated on UI changes. One thing is for sure, Joe and his
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The last decade has seen the growth of cloud computing. Software and services delivered via the internet ‘the cloud’ has become the default and we now consume and post data to cloud services in some form or another every time we switch on our devices. The proliferation of mobile apps has certainly contributed to the
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The last 6 months have been extremely busy for me with many projects on my agenda; unfortunately the blog received the least priority and finding time to post new content has been difficult. On the bright side, I had noted down topics to come back and write on so hopefully in the coming months I
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This is a quick entry so that I can note down a small snippet of code for next time when I run into this one. Recently I have worked with Microsoft System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 SP1 and found that after creating a managed IP Address Pool that when needing to remove the Pool I
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