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howto://fix “the interface is misconfigured” with nlb

2011-12-13

If you get an interface is misconfigured error trying to add a node to an NLB cluster, take a look at this before you spend too much time chasing your tail.

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howto://change UPN suffixes with PowerShell

2011-10-10

Need to change the UPN suffix on a bunch of users, and don’t want to do it by hand? Here’s a simple PowerShell script to do the heavy lifting for you.

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howto://make Windows 7 file transfers fly

2011-10-04

Speed up SMB transfers over the WAN with this little reghack/performance tuning trick.

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howto://customise Lync 2010 status messages

2011-09-23

Want to customise Lync 2010′s status messages, or enable the secret “appear offline mode?” Me too! Here’s how.

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howto://bulk check-in files in SharePoint

2011-06-07

Since I get asked about checked out files once a week, and can never quite remember how to check them in, here’s a quick article on how to bulk check-in files that you have checked out, whether it’s because you copied them up using the WebDAV path, or because that’s the default behaviour for your document library.

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howto://shape traffic on tmg 2010

2011-05-23

TMG 2010 does a great job of securing your network, and can exercise very precise control of internal users’ access to the Internet when it comes to ports and protocols, file access, etc., but unfortunately it cannot do anything to control bandwidth consumption. Whether you call it traffic shaping, bandwidth restrictions, rate limiting, or speed [...]

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howto://add the telnet client to windows

2011-05-18

Seeking the telnet client in recent versions of Windows? Look no further, here is how we do it.

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howto://map a drive to sharepoint

2011-05-10

If you have ever needed to move a lot of files up to a document library on a SharePoint server, or diff a library to a network directory to make sure everything was transferred, or post things to SharePoint using a script, then you probably wanted to map the SharePoint site as a drive. Having [...]

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howto://change the NAT address on TMG 2010

2011-04-12

Need to change the external address your users’ traffic is NAT’d to on TMG 2010? Here’s the how to.

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howto://use Windows 2008 on your laptop

2011-03-30

If you have tried to install Windows 2008 on your laptop and run into a brick wall getting wireless working, here’s a quick tip. YMMV but this has worked for me on a couple of different Dell’s and an Acer, even when using 2008R2 (which is of course 64bit only) so it’s good enough to [...]

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