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A break from the summer blockbusters

padd — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:33:46 +0000

Transformers 2 left me feeling amazing and Star Trek did not disappoint one bit. However the build up to these films always leaves me a little bit sad, in Terminator Salvation for example, we were treated with a smashing trailer promising robots, explosions, gripping dialogue and a wicked soundtrack except what we got was a [...]

Exchange Activesync not working on WM6

padd — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:49 +0000

I just had a problem where one of our user’s HTC tytn ii phones was refusing to sync with exchange over the mobile network. I conducted the usual action of veryfying the password but could not find the problem. So I googled for the error code 85010014 which came up with loads of articles about [...]

Some Windows VPN connections through ISA 2006 failing

padd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:57:25 +0000

Having successfully set up our company’s ISA 2006 Server, tested it from home and on a few mobile networks, I confidently distubuted the instructions to the staff of how to set up and gain acces to the VPN. A few days later, I was sitting back and admiring my success, when i recieved a phone call [...]

Setting up WSS3 email support and recieving SMTP error: missing adsiisex.dll

padd — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:21:21 +0000

The time has come to set up our Windows Sharepoint Services installation to receive emails. One of the first things that you need to do is install the SMTP service on the sharepooint server using add/remove windows components. So you go through the motions: Click Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs. Click the Add/Remove Windows Components button. Select [...]

Sky to roll out content on Xbox 360

padd — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:00:16 +0000

According to the BBC Sky have struck a deal with Microsoft to deliver sky content direct to your Xbox without the need for a sky dish. Set to be released in the autumn, Xbox Live customers should be able to receive live sport, programmes, catch-up TV and on demand films through their broadband connection. One of the [...]

Increasing your site exposure through Wordpress Ping Lists

padd — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:11:30 +0000

There is no use writing great content if no one knows that it is published. One way of increasing your wordpress site’s exposure is to edit the ping list. When you publish a post in wordpress, it has the ability to send out a notification to multiple websites designed to track and aggregate posts.The sites that [...]

Edit Sharepoint sites for free!

padd — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:21:51 +0000

A bit late but still worth a post, Microsoft has announced (in April 2009) that Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 is now free! Go over to SharePoint Designer 2007 Download to get your free copy. For those who don’t know much about SharePoint Designer, here is an excerpt from Microsoft: Build solutions faster to enhance team productivity and efficiency Use [...]

Hard times and tightening budgets…

padd — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:01:54 +0000

Money is tight, redundancies are possible and projects postponed. Whilst budget cuts by some degree are inevitable, careful planning for the downturn will impact your business in a positive way. Being forced to ‘do more with less’, forces you to look at problems in new ways and take an approach that you may not have looked [...]

Ebulletin Articles

padd — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:01:02 +0000

I have recently started writing articles for my company’s ebulletin and have made the descision to cross post them to my site too. You can see the ebulletins by visitng http://news.qedconsulting.co.uk

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Warning

padd — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:04:51 +0000

Well I got a new error today other day on one of our domain controllers after doing a restart. A bit of a bug in Windows 2003 SP1 and easy enough to fix. The error is: Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSDTC Event Category: SVC Event ID: 53258 Date: 05/01/2009 Time: 08:23:06 User: N/A Computer: APOLLO Description: MS DTC could not correctly [...]