Error when assigning wildcard ssl certificate in iis
While doing an emergency wildcard SSL certificate replacement on a web server farm, most servers would allow me to select the certificate after the import but a handful wouldn’t. It …
Site users web part “add new users” link missing
Recently a customer reported that on some team sites that the “Add new user” link had disappeared off the Site Users web part. Assumptions were initially that the permissions had …
Our technical boundaries
As a business we get a large chunk of our work through partner organisations who are looking to fulfil projects but they either have capacity shortfalls or lack a particular …
Creating a VM in SCVMM 2012 R2 on a cluster
Creating a virtual machine in SCVMM for the first time is easy and so is creating a virtual machine that will be on a cluster, but one little check box …
Office 365 SharePoint Online access by an external user
This blog post covers the process you need to follow to accept an invitation to a SharePoint online site when you are an external user, e.g. being invited to your …
My CrytoLocker cleanup story
Summary There is a particularly worrying piece of malware doing the rounds called ‘CryptoLocker’ – it’s in the ‘Ransomware’ category and sets the standard for what we should expect going …
PowerShell crashes when using start-job in a loop
In one of my scripts I needed to implement a kind of watch dog for part of the script which had a tendency to barf and get stuck. I settled …
How I have my mail view configured in Outlook 2013
Part of what we do as consultants is help people from the ground up with software. Nothing is more ubiquitous than Outlook but it is also probably the least well …
Do you really want to update your software during the working day…?
Only a minor issue in reality, but a reminder to treat our own systems like we treat our customers production environment – plan your changes! Today I was offered a …
[Quickfix] Lync window title “Lync Basic (Non-Commercial Use)”
I’d never seen this before today… Considering we are an E3, Office 365 customer I doubted it was being serious.