The internet is such a part of our daily lives that it’s hard to imagine being totally disconnected, unless that’s the whole point of your travel plans. We’re so used to transferring money online and sharing our photos. But if you’re using the Internet overseas, here are some essential tips to help protect your identity. Before…
How to become known within your Industry: Show Up. Contribute. Share.
People have started asking me how I have made so many connections with other people in IT, especially overseas. When I examined it, it turns out it’s just a by-product of how I engage with other people and get connected into groups of peers and ‘hero’ speakers/writers. It’s nothing I specifically set out to achieve.…
What you need to do before AND after upgrading to Windows 10
Microsoft has announced that a free upgrade to Windows 10 will be available on the 29th of July for eligible systems. This can be applied anytime over the next 12 months and your computer will be presented with a system tray icon and popup showing you how. Note: Eligible computers are those already running Windows 7 or…
HP all in one fails sound driver & webcam driver installation on Windows 8.1
Nothing taunts a systems administrator like a yellow exclamation triangle in device manager. After an HP all in one computer had been worked on to remedy another issue, the only problem that remained was no sound & no webcam. And that stupid little yellow symbol. This appeared after Windows Updates had automatically updated the operating system…
Can’t create a static gateway VPN on a Microsoft Azure virtual network
Ah the joys of a proof of concept. We’re playing with a vendor’s application that has some tricky networking requirements (multi-site VPN support through a third party aggregator) to see if the architecture would work with a server in Azure. The great part is we have a trial version of the software, so we can replicate…
Outlook 2013 changes account from Office 365 to old on premise Exchange server
When you have a problem once and you can reset everything, it’s annoying. But usually it’s quicker than getting to the root cause of exactly why it happened. When the same problem occurs a month later, it’s time to find the root cause.In this case, my Outlook 2013 randomly decides to stop connecting to Office…