Blog du Tristank
Migrating to https://blog.tristank.com/ . And still so terrific that 3 of 4 readers rated it "soporific"
Windows Live Sync Beta “Sorry” Errors
I’m in the process of updating my Mesh-and-Sync empire to the new Sync. On all of the Server...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/27/2010
Office Cheap, Windows 7 Cheaper
Holy ger-burble, splatman! Windows 7 Professional Upgrade for $30 (at the bottom of the block)....
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/23/2010
Ooh, an Alienware M17x
A friend of mine wanted a high-end gaming laptop; I’d just seen an impressive-looking MX11X in JB Hi...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/22/2010
TMG Large Logging Queue: No More SQL Lockdowns?
What you say!? The new logging system in TMG 2010 is seriously cool, and it’s designed to cope with...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/12/2010
More Network Inspection System updates
A new Vuln (vulnerability) NIS definition for Outlook Express / Windows Mail MS10-030 joins the...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/11/2010
TmgAdConfig (aka ADConfig, ADConfigPack)
To avoid you tearing your hair out trying to find it: The tool TMGADCONFIG.exe is included in the...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/11/2010
Slow IO?
(aka IOlwayscallsmethat. OK, horrendous joke based on a bad Dad Joke. Geneva has been notified.)...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/07/2010
Xbox Live vs TMG
Foreword - Added 2011-03-08 As far as I'm aware, nothing significant has changed since the blog...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/06/2010
OneNote 2010 vs Mesh
I installed Office 2010 on my main home machine last night, and on my work PCs today. I love it,...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/05/2010
Bamboo-zled!
From the Your Puns Are Without Peer (i.e. they have no friends) department, I noticed that since...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/04/2010
Are you funny enough? Let us help.
I was forwarded a link to the Education Competencies site. What beauty. What simplicity. What abject...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/03/2010
WPAD via DNS and ISA Server (or TMG, for that matter)
Just a reminder that WPAD is a special blocked keyword after recent DNS Server security updates....
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/31/2010
ISA 2006: Hotfix 520 is out
The Feb 22, 2010 update for ISA Server 2006 is the current high-watermark hotfix level:...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/31/2010
Hyper-V Saved State to Memory Dump conversion
I was wondering if something like this existed to help with a malware infestation I was looking at....
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/28/2010
MicroUSB – a quick “yay!”
The Kindle 2 I bought recently used a new and strange USB cable – one I hadn’t seen before. Then,...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/26/2010
Mental Note
Acer 1820PT. I remember looking with lust at the 1420P given to PDC attendees, and this looks pretty...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/23/2010
Pound’s Law
“The correct number of virtual machines is n+1, where n is the number you currently have set up.”
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/16/2010
Telstra HTC HD2 Connection Settings
The Shiny New Phone I bought an HTC HD2 sight-unseen from the Telstra online store yesterday, and...
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/19/2010
TMG Web Protection In Action
Today, I arrived at my desk to find a link from one of my relatives waiting for me in an MSN window...
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/06/2010
Vista Black Edition comments from the MMPC
Matt McCormack, MMPC Melbourne (that is the most awesomely alliterative signature block I’ve seen...
Author: Tristan K Date: 10/20/2009
ISA Server 2006 TCP Retransmits
Health Checks I perform ISA Server Health Checks for Premier Support (via Premier Field Engineering)...
Author: Tristan K Date: 10/13/2009
My new roadmouse
They wanted me to post about Windows phones. Well, I’m going to fight the power. Buck the trend....
Author: Tristan K Date: 10/06/2009
PL15W2SP.DLL vs Firewall Client
As I possibly misspelled or misremembered it, the PL15ws2p.dll (possible sic) file was installed as...
Author: Tristan K Date: 08/19/2009
Improve Hyper-V Performance With Standard VGA!
Yes, kids, if you’re finding that the Hyper-V performance ain’t what it used to be since installing...
Author: Tristan K Date: 08/04/2009
Blocking Explicit Bing with ISA Server
Mike from Bing posted on some SafeSearch updates to Bing, particularly around image search and video...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/17/2009
ISA Server 2006 on Windows Server 2008: Nup
Update 6 May 2010: Hello! If you're reading this, it's now at least 2010, and the answer to your...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/04/2009
Everything old…
Bing, you say? Odd, I’m sure I’ve heard it somewhere before… Wait! It was me!? I’d like to thank the...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/31/2009
IIS WebDAV Security Advisory
Today, an IIS 5.0 to 6.0 security advisory was released: Vulnerability in Internet Information...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/19/2009
Windows 7 RC n-Trig multitouch drivers are out
Some love for my lil’ Dell Latitude XT! Dell won’t sell me a battery slice for it, but I can still...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/18/2009
Old MPSReports
There’s a new MPS Reports version in town, with new features : new 64-bit friendliness, various...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/11/2009
Max Payne 2 on Xbox Originals
Awesome, in a word. Max Payne® 2- The Fall of Max Payne Wins my award for most heartbreaking game...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/28/2009
Certificate Services Web Enrolment
Spotted: a handy guide, to get your shiny new ADCS Web Enrollment* front end installed and pointed...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/27/2009
On the ISA Server Security Update
Rambling my way to a point One of my most favourite “Favorites” (read: “he snarled”) in recent weeks...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/14/2009
Antivirus software on ISA Server
There are two major classes of Anti Virus software (yes, I know I used one word above, it’s called...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/08/2009
Windows 2003 SP1: Support Ends in Two Weeks (April 15, 2009)
Just following on from some Lifecycle-related musings. 24 months after SP2 was released, Windows...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/31/2009
SMB/CIFS support for File:// URLs in CRL Distribution Points: Nup
According to Brian Komar, CDP and AIA extensions won’t work any more with file://\server\share URLs...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/23/2009
Win2K: 1 Year, 5 months to go
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3071 I just saw the first case for a fair while come...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/10/2009
IAG – now available for Hyper-V
Of all the things I could be doing right now, blogging is the one that won. Feel special?...
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/29/2009
Vista-Stylez File Management in Windows 7 Beta
If you’re finding file management frustrating because the folder pane seems strangely inactive in...
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/18/2009
Shutting phones up with Bluetooth, revisited: musings
I posted a while back that I was looking for some kind of suppression device that could...
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/18/2009
Home Hyper-V Networking Gotchas
Before the holidays, I bought myself an early present: a new quad-core box with 4GB RAM, which I was...
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/13/2009
Back With A Semblance
It’s a new year, I have a new job, and I have new stories to tell*! I had a lovely Christmas break,...
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/13/2009
Don’t Use Office Applications (or GDI+, or System.Drawing, or WinInet) in a Server Application (or ASP.Net)
Johan posted a timely reminder of a long-standing perennial support call generator in his post...
Author: Tristan K Date: 11/06/2008
Site Optimization Tips with VRTA
New and shiny on MSDN: 12 Steps To Faster Web Pages With Visual Round Trip Analyzer
Author: Tristan K Date: 11/02/2008
.HDMP and .MDMP files
Just a quickie – the rule is blog what you know, but I figure my speculation might be good enough...
Author: Tristan K Date: 09/23/2008
What does it mean when there's no "broken page" icon in IE8?
I was just catching up on some of my RSS feeds, and noticed that one of the pages I was at didn't...
Author: Tristan K Date: 09/10/2008
Game Season Approaches
After what seems like a drought of epic proportions, the holiday releases are gradually going to...
Author: Tristan K Date: 08/24/2008
Mesh Gush
Hi Everybody! I've been laying low for a while, in read-only mode, sorting, filtering, evaluating...
Author: Tristan K Date: 08/20/2008
That Memory Leak Revisited
While searching for memory leaking troubleshooting techniques that could be applied to 64-bit...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/25/2008