This site is now a static archive. No new posts or comments can be made.
In some type of bizarre alternate reality, linking a corporate Microsoft account to a personal Microsoft account so the user can earn "Microsoft Rewards points for Microsoft Bing searches done in their browser or Windows search box while signed in with their AAD account" is seen as a good option to have - despite the…
Continue readingIf your anything like me - the amount of environments that you are now accessing via a variety of nested citrix/RDP/VPN/Hyper-V Console/JumpBox's etc - well.... its now 100% of what you deal with. One of the pains of nested sessions (apart from the clipboard) is pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del for tasks such as…
Continue readingI'm a little embarrassed that i have only just found out about this. I, like many old timers, have been using telnet to verify network connectivity over certain ports for many years, with commands such as " telnet www.adexis.com.au 443 " in order to verify that specific ports are accessible from the machine im working…
Continue readingMYOB - other small business owners may be familiar with this software.... its not good software and its expensive.... but it is one of the options out there for small business. Anyway - upgrade MYOB server edition When performing this upgrade, it automatically resets the Library location back to the default - which is not…
Continue readingThanks for making me feel old(er)... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/30/windows_nt_is_25/
Continue readingRecently, I made up a HTML template to use with some summaries we send out to clients - I thought it would look a bit more professional than our existing text with an attached PDF. I got the HTML looking nice, plugged it into the VS project, and generated some emails... <eyes pop from sockets>…
Continue readinghttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/satya-nadella-just-fixed-microsofts-biggest-problem-chris-dodds?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like I'll believe it when I see it. For an organisation that is so incredibly entrenched in the culture of selling first and not bothering if the product actually meets customer needs or not - and even worse, very skilled in repositioning the problem as the solution, its a massive claim and would be a…
Continue reading"Hayes.... my Microsoft is doing something weird and when I replied to an email telling me I had won $2 million, a big red message popped up because of YOUR antivirus" I know I'm not alone in receiving phone calls like this - but it still amazes me. Computing and technology is not going away…
Continue readingDear Microsoft - Logging on to outlook.com or a service which uses a Microsoft/Live ID from a different IP address does not fucking constitute "unusual activity"; subsequently blocking access to the account with security measures that a) are invasive b) don't fucking work (the text messages only sometimes come through and when they do…
Continue readingOver the years, the Microsoft partner program rubbish has built up. I have requested that we no longer be sent the DVD's, plaques etc.... but at the time (granted, this was years ago) - i was told that was not an option - and asked the courier to no longer deliver packages from MS. Not…
Continue reading