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

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