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Allow / Prevent access to Exchange Online based on IP and Rules

Author Will Faulkner Date 01/12/2018
It’s been my experience that companies generally embrace moving to the Cloud cautiously –...
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DFH Office – moved in one weekend

Author Will Faulkner Date 15/05/2018
DFH Offices – complete infrastructure move and revamp in 1 weekend I don’t often...
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Remote Powershell to hosted Exchange from Windows 10
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Remote Powershell connection to hosted Exchange (Office 365)

Author Will Faulkner Date 05/08/2017
I don’t know about you, but although I find the Exchange Administration Console OK...
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Best Head of IT Crystal Plaque
Humour, IT

At the risk of sounding pretentious: Best Head of IT – Ever

Author Will Faulkner Date 16/02/2017
I’m not really one for blowing my own trumpet. Don’t get me wrong, I’m...
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Powershell scripting: Keep calm and carry on
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Powershell: File & Folder recursive take ownership and change permissions

Author Will Faulkner Date 08/12/2015
File and Folder permission changes not propagating when ACLs modified by script Some time...
Tagged Powershell, Scripting | 5 Comments |
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Why WordPress Security is important – Secure your site from hackers now!

Author Will Faulkner Date 19/06/2015
Securing WordPress – Basic Steps to protect your site from hackers I’m sure that...
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Inbound SMTP load balancing
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Load Balance inbound SMTP across multiple mail servers

Author Will Faulkner Date 12/06/2015
Simple method to load balance TCP traffic (SMTP in this case) Open-source solution (CentOS...
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Windows 8.1 Hyper-V: 2012 DC, Exchange 2013, CentOS 7 & Windows 10 eval VMs

Author Will Faulkner Date 02/10/2014
Playing with Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 Enterprise Background: After 18 months working without break...
Tagged CentOS, Hyper-V, Windows 10, Windows 8.1 | Leave a comment |
Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation
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Windows 10 Insider Enterprise – Evaluation Build 10074

Author Will Faulkner Date 01/10/2014
Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation Downloaded Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation from Technet Evaluation Center (now...
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Featured, IT

Build a Private Cloud with System Center 2012, Server 2012, Hyper-V and Azure

Author Will Faulkner Date 21/08/2013
I’m a little old-school when it comes to data security & compliance – as...
Tagged Azure, Cloud, Hyper-V, Server 2012 | Leave a comment |
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Monitor Wall – Nagios, Operations Manager & Custom

Author Will Faulkner Date 11/07/2013
To better utilise existing resources the entire IT department has been moved to a...
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Powershell Scripting: Leavers in Active Directory

Author Will Faulkner Date 01/07/2013
How I used Powershell Scripting to clean up neglected Active Directory Domains Recently had...
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Featured, IT

Server 2003 to 2008 Upgrade: Fix PowerShell compatibility error

Author Will Faulkner Date 09/02/2013
Easy fix for PowerShell compatibility error on 2003 to 2008 Server upgrade. Problem Upgrading...
Tagged Powershell, Server | 88 Comments |
Featured, IT

Timer events not firing in Windows Service – VB.Net 2008

Author Will Faulkner Date 07/05/2012
This article does not concern the bug ‘The Elapsed event of the System.Timers.Timer class...
Tagged Programming, vb.net | 4 Comments |
Featured, IT

VMware vConverter and Hyper-V or P2V conversions

Author Will Faulkner Date 03/04/2012
Although I’ve been a fan of Microsoft’s virtualisation platform (Hyper-V) for some time, running...
Tagged Hyper-V, P2V, V2V, virtualisation, VMware | 5 Comments |
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