On the 1st January 2015 TechSupportPro.uk launched. One year on I thought it would be worth reviewing the year just gone, from where the blog started to where it is now. There were a lot of unknowns going into the project, what was I going to write about? Would I get any traffic to the site? How would I get visitors to the site, and who would they be? Well, here is what happened, read on…. (more…)
This post covers Dynamic Access Control, one of my favourite topics in the 70-412 Microsoft certification. I have to admit it took me a number of hours studying and experimenting in the lab to fully understand and commit all the parts to memory, however I think it’s one of the most powerful tools available in Windows Server 2012 and which the sysadmin can deploy, so lets get started (more…)
In this, the first of three articles which cover the 2nd objective domain (Configure File & Storage Solutions) of the 70-412 Microsoft exam we take a look at “Configuring Advanced Files Services”. In this post we will cover BranchCache, FSRM (File Server Resource Manager), and File Access Auditing. Lets get started with the first of the threes subjects – BranchCache… (more…)
Last week Virgin Media experienced some packet loss on their network, which in turn impacted my surfing experience for a number of hours. After running through some diagnostics on my own devices to confirm the issue was indeed down to Virgin, it occurred to me that it may be a good time to document my network. It’s been something I have been meaning to do for a while, and you know, just not had chance to do it. So here goes… (more…)
On Wednesday I attended the Microsoft conference Future Decoded. Unfortunately, due to my late arrival, I missed the opening Keynote from Scott Guthrie. However, I did catch the closing moments of his presentation where he demonstrated how to create a data warehouse using the Microsoft Azure service.
In this post I will report on the presentations I attended, and a few other things I ran into on the day.
As you may or may not know, in November I will be attending the technical day of the Microsoft event Future Decoded. Not having attended an event of this type before I’m not sure what to expect, so it’s kind of a step into the unknown, but one I’m extremely excited about. Checking out the agenda for the technical day (see below) and looking through the list of “Technical Deep Dives” I’m thrilled at the prospect.
