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It is almost a month since I wrote about this topic. I was able to defer the setup of the RD Gateway that I was previously doing until today when I had to finish it without completing the NAP client setup. This means that for the moment all clients connecting to our server will be…

By now it will be apparent I have not posted any work related content here for a good while. The reason is mostly that we are hideously busy with end of year stuff. Here is a useful code snippet. How to get a ping log with nice neat output, with the time and date displayed.…

Around two years ago I wrote about my trials in changing ISP from Telecom to Slingshot. The experience was bad enough that I ditched Slingshot and changed to TelstraClear and haven’t looked back. In fact I wondered why I hadn’t gone to Telstra in the first place. Today there’s an article in the Herald on…

In amongst the new functionality for Windows Server 2008 is the Remote Access Gateway (it acquired this name in Server 2008 R2 but was introduced as Terminal Server Gateway in 2008 R1) and Network Access Protection enhancements. The latter technology existed in previous editions of Server but was mainly concerned with enforcing protection against remotely…

Earlier this week I wrote about the frustration of transferring Excel data to Access with flaky OBDC connections or drivers. I’m not sure that was exactly the cause but a lot of error conditions were experienced trying to manipulate data with the linked tables which were Excel spreadsheets. Eventually I got the data to be…