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How to fix the FTP service in Windows

CraigN.NET — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:17:49 GMT

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Shorewall restart on PPP link change

CraigN.NET — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:28:21 GMT

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SQL Server 2008 and .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 dependency explained

CraigN.NET — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:34:15 GMT

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Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 released

CraigN.NET — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:41:29 GMT

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SQL Server 2008 ships

CraigN.NET — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:16:30 GMT

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Submit to Community Credit 1.0 plug-in released

CraigN.NET — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:08:42 GMT

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Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 released

CraigN.NET — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:01:26 GMT

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What’s New in Silverlight 2 beta 2

CraigN.NET — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:37:59 GMT

The Silverlight SDK blog has an overview of what new features to expect from the Silverlight 2 beta 2 release coming this week. Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 2 beta 2 releasing this week

CraigN.NET — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:32:40 GMT

Bill Gates says Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta 2 should be released this week. Read More......(read more)

How to get Windows Live Installer to work behind a firewall and proxy

CraigN.NET — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:38:54 GMT

A quick howto guide on getting Windows Live Installer to work behind a firewalled network with only a proxy server. Read More......(read more)

When Hyper-V on Server Core actually sucks

CraigN.NET — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:10:22 GMT

After seeing a post that the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V bits are now feature complete in the form of Release Candidate 0 (RC0), I decided its time to get a machine up and running to play with it. I decided to go with a Server Core installation instead...(read more)

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 out now

CraigN.NET — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:40:47 GMT

Just announced at MIX’08, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available for download after the keynote completes. It looks like they’ve added some very cool new features with sites like Ebay and Facebook already taking advantage of them. I kinda...(read more)

Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 is out

CraigN.NET — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:21:23 GMT

Check out this post which details all the download links for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. Yay! Naturally this includes an update runtime, an SDK, the source code to the new controls, documentation, some tools for Visual Studio 2008 and the Expression Blend...(read more)

Silverlight, Nokia and Apple

CraigN.NET — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:43:00 GMT

Well things seem to be picking up for Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. I enjoyed Silverlight 1.0 but detest JavaScript so my attention immediately turned to the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha build that came out last year at MIX’07. Awesome stuff...(read more)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 CTP, February 2008

CraigN.NET — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:27:37 GMT

The latest and greatest CTP of SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai) is now available for download and testing. This is commonly referred to as CTP6 and is the first update since CTP5 in November 2007. You can download the CTP6 bits over here. To find out...(read more)

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 RTM

CraigN.NET — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:09:09 GMT

Both the Windows Server and Windows Vista teams released new builds today. The much-awaited Windows Server 2008, formerly known by the code-name Longhorn Server, was released to manufacturing today, as was the highly anticipated service pack 1 update...(read more)

Linux running under Virtual Server 2005

CraigN.NET — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:43:34 GMT

Recently we decided to put up a virtual Linux server in one of our hosting environments. The host machine is a Windows Server 2003 x64 edition running Virtual Server 2005 R2 x64 SP1. We chose to install CentOS 5.1 which is community Linux distribution...(read more)

The Lone Server

CraigN.NET — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:15:23 GMT

I just have to take my hat off to the Microsoft Windows Server team. If you haven’t seen it yet I suggest you go take a peek at the The Lone Server Story featuring a humourous take on the last Windows Server 2003 server serving the microsoft.com...(read more)

Nasty critters must die

CraigN.NET — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:09:23 GMT

Sometimes Windows can be a complete pain, well Windows XP specifically. Today my colleague presented me with an spy-ware issue on his PC that he needed help with removing. After trying the usual tools like HijackThis it became clear that this little critter...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 released

CraigN.NET — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:15:11 GMT

Yeah its official, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 was officially released today. You can read Somasegar’s announcement post over here. If you have been chomping on the bit waiting for the release then head on over and download 90...(read more)