my world of IT

Its been a little while since posting What happens when you put a OCZ PCI-E SSD in a server? and I thought I would give an update to its progress. After 2520 hours powered on (about 105 days or 3.5 months) the SSD is yet to give us any trouble – that’s while hosting 3 a fully active virtual machines… Read more

If you are trying to setup System Centre Data Protection Manager 2010 with a SMTP relay that dosn’t use authentication (e.g. you use IP address filtering to allow access to your SMTP server) you may come across a problem where DPM throws up a error every time you try and send a email stating that a username/password must be entered…. Read more

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

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

For the past few days I’ve been hard at work selecting parts, ordering and building a new storage server for work – the results of which can be seen below. Read on for a full list of parts.

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

Last month I almost maxed out my 500MB of mobile internet usage from Orange – this made me think, how much of this could I have saved if I used Wi-Fi more often? As it stands I have complete wireless coverage at home though my Belkin Router, also at work we have a complete site wide wireless network powered by… Read more

Last year just before Christmas I was very close to getting a Motorola Xoom Android Tablet PC but after much thought I changed my mind and decided that I would wait for Windows 8. Looking at the reasons below most of these relate to my nature as a IT professional and how I would use the tablet at both home,… Read more

Voice recognition is already here so why am I making so much of a fuss about it? Well at least for now we are still very limited as to how we can use voice technology with our phones – most of the time we are limited to issuing simple commands to open applications or run searches. Even Apples Siri technology… Read more

One of my goals of this site is to raise the profile (even if just a little) of the issues that UK schools face throughout the year. One such problem is how to deploy remotely accessible services (VPNs/Terminal Server/Citrix VDI/or the famous Home Access Plus+) in a secure but low cost manner. Obviously a key part of these services is security… Read more