“This will be a day long remembered.” – Darth Vader. To recap from the previous entry, I needed an alternate form of entry into the house and thus investigated interfacing with my garage door controller. The overall aim was to use my phone to open/close my garage door. This post is part of a 6 […]
“No loose wire jokes.” – Anakin Skywalker. I decided recently that I’d like to start experimenting with the Arduino rapid prototyping boards (www.arduino.cc). It’s been a desire of mine for some time to learn how to interface computers with other electronic devices, and the Arduino seemed like a good place to start. The difficulty, as […]
I’m writing this article to describe how Dynamic DNS update operates on Windows in regards to which DNS server it chooses to send its update to, as I commonly hear the same response from people when discussing how this feature works. As Yoda would say, you must unlearn what you have learned. I’ll probably end […]
I was looking into a Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster the other day. I do like clusters, especially Microsoft ones. This particular cluster had experienced an incident and through a combination of factors and follow up actions had been left in a state where the cluster service was failing due to configuration errors. This quote […]
I like comically verbose debug outputs. I tend to produce a lot of information in debug logs attached to applications that I write. Rarely does anyone else see the logs, but as the whole purpose of the debug logs is to track down and fix faults, the more information the better. I found a very […]
One of the code posts I created a few weeks ago referenced one of the utility logging functions that I have created for use in my applications/tools. It has certainly made my life a lot easier and I have several derivations of it for various situations. This function is called in much the same […]
Awesome. If you’ve been reading the IT News, you’d see Microsoft released a new RDP client for OS X and IOS on the 18th of October. I started experimenting with the IOS version on the day it came out and was very impressed with the client. I’ve since found time to install the OS X […]
In the last post we examined how to programatically control DNS dynamic registration on DNS clients. Now we’re going to examine the same problem, but on the DNS server itself. The DNS registration configuration for the DNS server can be misleading, which is why this quote is particularly pleasing. Let’s recap. When you don’t have […]
I had someone ask me the other day about an issue they were having with regards to multi-homed Windows servers and the Microsoft DNS Server product with dynamic registration enabled. I created a VBScript file to address the issue, which I’ll explain in this post. As for the quote in the title, this quote I […]
Ever since upgrading my home server from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2, I’ve been unable to RDP to it from my Mac OS X laptop. I use the Microsoft RDP client that comes with Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. There are other alternatives around that may be better – I’ve heard CoRD […]
Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire 