Its VLANs time! In this part of the guide I am going to look at the VLAN configuration required to get all of this up and running. For the whole setup we have the following VLANs being used- 172.16.8.0/21 – VLAN 2 Services which includes 172.16.8.4 as our Windows DHCP server, 172.16.8.39 as the Wireless Controller and 172.16.15.254 as the Smoothwall… Read more
Category: Mobile Working
4 SSIDs 1 Secondary Academy – Intro + Diagrams
In this series of posts Im going to look at the technical setup required for providing 4 different SSIDs each on its own network (using VLANs) which provides wireless services for a variety of services. For each of the networks I am looking to achieve something specific- OSA-WiFi – Domain joined Windows devices, served by computer authentication with the settings… Read more
Deploying AirServer 1.9.6 via SCCM
Go into any school these days and it will be hard to avoid any shiny ‘iDevices’ and in support of that I have recently deployed AirServer by App Dynamic. The installer is provided as an MSI although our retailer suggested a command line option to deploy and activate the software for all users of the PC; a very nice idea there… Read more
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
Forcing the Windows Phone 7.8 update (HTC Pro 7)
For the past few days Microsoft has been slowly rolling out the shiny new Windows Phone 7.8 update to all the happy people out there with Windows Phone on 7.5. Nokia phones were reportedly the first to get the update however other users with phones like the HD7 have also reported that the update has started to appear on their phones. Some… Read more
Lync Normalisation Rules – UK (Great Britain)
When I was first setting up Lync 2010 for VoIP one of the things that really stumped me for a while was Normalisation Rules. In short these rules take human readable numbers and convert them to the standard for international calling (E.164) – its kinda like how computers take human readable DNS addresses (e.g. bbc.co.uk) and converts them to IP addresses… Read more
Lync phone photos
Recently we have been deploying shiny new Lync phones at work. These phones mix in with the Lync software client on our staff PCs and in some cases the phones don’t even have dial pads! The Lync phones we are going to be using are- Polycom CX200 (desk tied staff) Polycom CX700 (reception) HP 4110 (common areas) HP 4120 (feature… Read more
Problems with Offline Files sync stopping randomly?
Lets say you have a Windows 7 Notebook PC connected to a high speed LAN which has some files syncing onto it, all goes well for a little while until the sync stops randomly. You are sure there is no problem with the PC, your server that you are taking the files off or the network connection and you restart… Read more