Its been a day or so since buying a Microsoft Band 2 (took a while to find a high street shop that had one to try on in the first place!) and its proving rather useful to me as a person who rarely has his phone turned on loud and really never notices the little vibrations from it. My most… Read more
Category: The Cloud
The idea of ‘cloud’ computing has been around since the first web based email services but only in the past few years has the term become mainstream.
Here I look into software that runs somewhere other than on your PC.
Windows Authentication when using Safari on iOS8 does not work – Workaround
In recent testing with iOS8 (specifically 8.0.2) we’ve discovered that any web application (in particular we’ve got a number of in house applications that were built using Visual Studio Lightswitch 2013) that relies on Windows Authentication (on Microsoft Internet Information Services) simply does not work. In particular users get to the login prompt screen to enter their username and password… Read more
Cloud Coffee…just a little fun!
A few days ago I saw something on a social networking site about what Pizza would be like if it was a ‘Cloud Service’ – afraid I don’t know who to credit for it so I won’t post it here but I did give into temptation and make my own about Coffee!
WebDAV – Access Windows File Shares outside the firewall on any device – Part 3 – Guides + More reading
So you now have your WebDAV server setup and its time to get this out to your users. To help you along you feel free to edit the guides below to your particular requirements. For further reading take a look at the links below- Basic setup of a WebDAV site on IIS.net – http://www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-publishing-technologies/installing-and-configuring-webdav-on-iis Basic setup of WebDAV on seanashton.net… Read more
WebDAV – Access Windows File Shares outside the firewall on any device – Part 2 – The server setup
In the previous article in this series we looked at the topology needed to setup a WebDAV infrastructure. I’ll assume that You have a public DNS record which points to a IP address on your firewall which is in turn port forwarding 443 (HTTPS) to your IIS server (this also works through Web Application Proxys like the ones built into Smoothwall… Read more
WebDAV – Access Windows File Shares outside the firewall on any device – Part 1 – The basics
Every once in a while a magical bit of software comes along that makes life so very good; today that software is WebDAV and its been around so long that some people might have forgotten how good it is. The premise goes You have one or more internal Windows Server(s) which hosts users personal documents and shared drives You would… Read more
SeaMicro and Opteron 3200 – its all falling into place for AMD
A press release today from AMD (AMD Launches New Platform for Dedicated Web Hosting Providers) seems all too convenient after AMDs recent purchase of SeaMicro. The basics of it all goes that AMD now has a server class processor with a low power consumption, high core count that fits in a desktop class motherboard all of which is perfect for so… Read more
Live@Edu and FIM – Commandlets must be installed
Little help guide for anyone setting up Live@Edu using Forefront Identity Manager 2010! When trying to install the OLSync (Outlook Live Management Agent) component you get the error Forefront Identity Manager 2010 FP1 Sync Engine Configuration PowerShell Commandlets version (4.0.3555.2) must be installed. The easiest way to solve this problem is by downloading the required components from Microsoft Support the direct link… Read more
The Fitbit mobile world
As promised here is my article on the Fitbit mobile website! First of all I’m a strong believer that the future of the mobile ‘app’ world isn’t in making applications just for particular devices but instead making well designed mobile websites. Although the Fitbit team do have a iOS app they also have seen this light and also have gone… Read more
First thoughts about the Fitbit Ultra
I’m a strong believer that if you can monitor something well then you can make big leaps and bounds forwards. This especially applies to the world of IT; where for example, if you can monitor how fast a file server is running you can see if it needs a disk upgrade. Even more so this applies to the human body… Read more