“Now we find out if that code is worth the price we paid.” – Princess Leia I wrote an article recently regarding how to create a WCF based C# .NET Windows Service (here). I’m going to build upon that further here by moving from the BasicHttpBinding class to the BasicHttpsBinding class, and from Windows authentication to […]
“I am fluent in over six million forms of communication…” – C-3PO Historically, all of the services I’ve created on Windows (like a daemon from the Unix world), have been written in C/C++. Recently though however, I’ve needed to create a service in a .NET language like C#. There are several ways of doing this. […]
“Great Scott!” – Dr Emmett Brown I recently decided to go back to using a proxy auto-configuration script (proxy pac file) on my Windows 8.1 system. I encountered quite a few difficulties getting the pac file to take effect, so I decided to do some analysis to work out what the requirements were to get […]
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 […]
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 