Whilst doing some project build work recently, I noticed that every time I attempted to build a solution, it’d want to checkout every project, and update it with something. After doing a comparison after it had done it’s update, and before I checked it into TFS, I decided to find out what kept getting [...]

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After having some performance issues with VMware server 1.x, we decided to upgrade to the 2.x release. It wasn’t long after executing the setup binary that I had issues…

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As previous mentioned, I’ve been dropped the lovely project of managing, and automating the build processes for all of our application suites. I’m getting to learn some interesting stuff about automated builds, and finding some interesting quirks, such as the evaluation of ItemGroups.

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I’ve recently been put in control of managing the source control, and deployments in the office. It’s an interesting project, and I’m looking back over some of the stuff we’ve done to get our mass of code to work, build, and roll out to 4 different environments. However, I wanted something more manageable, [...]

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For a while, I’ve been doing a little bit of development work, build configurations, and the likes. I’ve had everything running inside a Virtual PC instance due to issues (detailed in Expanding Virtual PC Disks). We’re looking to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 soon, so I decided to pre-jump.

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How am I supposed to start doing fun development projects with my new toy, if the MSDN site is broken.

On a side note, before it went all pear shaped, I did manage to grab some pretty cool “How To…” videos here. I’m going to be doing some random stuff for both me, and possibly [...]

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I’ve always seem to have some bad luck with Microsoft products. I used to have a rather nice Dell Inspiron 9300, 17″ screen, worked great, until I installed Visual Studio… Then whenever I’d open it, BSOD.

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For an upcoming project, we started moving an external vendor off of a Microsoft PPTP VPN tunnel (per user client), to a fixed VPN tunnel using IPSEC, and handled at the gateway. During this migration, it was decided to remove access to the PPTP tunnel to ensure the vendor was using the proper tunnel. [...]

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We deployed Veritas’ DLO for a manager a few months ago after a laptop rebuild. Mostly because he spent several hours a week making regular backups of his documents folder. A pointless exercise when we have the software to handle backups for him.

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How badly can MS Word 2007 mess up a blog post? I just found this interesting item in Word 2007 that allows you to publish to a blog. This could be interesting, and allow me to do more writing offline (flights, etc). I have tried Microsoft LiveWriter a while ago. It seemed interesting, [...]

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