Adding Roles and Features To an Offline Virtual Machine

A few days ago I restarted a virtual machine and was presented with the message. We couldn’t complete the updates Undoing changes Don’t turn off your computer  Very helpful. The server just sat there for ages, apparently doing nothing. After a brief search I came across a post on the Microsoft forums that indicated an

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Sync Text Messages To Your Mailbox

File this under “I didn’t know it could do that” Using your smartphone to connect to your work email is a pretty standard thing nowadays. They just about all support ActiveSync so your iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry will all do email, calendars and contacts to an Exchange server without much fuss. However, the

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Problems With Sonicwall and Multiple PPPoE Connections

Now there’s an attention grabbing headline if ever I saw one! Just a quick reminder post in case I come across this again or it helps anyone else. We did some work for a client recently to replace their firewall with a shiny new Sonicwall NSA 2600. In the days following the replacement we were

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