Well, that was convoluted to say the least! This link is where you need to go if you are a Microsoft Partner and wish to access your Cloud Benefit credit for Azure. Its simple because the link is here, but trust me… it took 1 hour and a chat to the support person for me to find it! Read more →
OK, its not like I am going to get any time to play this, but I couldn’t resist at least having it on my PC and ready…. Thank you Steam for bringing back some great memories of the game that first made me want to get involved in computers… albeit game music development (yeah, that didn’t happen) Read more →
About 2 months ago, I got so amazingly frustrated with the iPhone 5S and the troubles with signal coverage and breakdowns that I bailed on Apple and got me some new Android S5’s. I am now eating those words. Today, the SIM card was put back in the iPhone and I wanted to share with you my own reasons why…… Read more →
Over the past month, we have been working with a customer on migrating to Office 365. Unlike all our other migrations, this customer had a large amount of Public folders and public folder data in Exchange 2010 onsite. This turned out to be a major stumbling block for NTES and also Microsoft. Finally today, we are migrated, but the steps… Read more →
It never ceases to amaze me how our friends in Eircom are so happy to pass the buck when it comes to the terrible Zyxel D1000 especially when in Bridge Mode. Its easy for Eircom to say that they do not support bridging, but the reality is that most customer want to avoid a double NAT situation. Bridging should work,… Read more →
I just found this really good Channel 9 interview with Mark Minasi and Mark Russinovich on Cloud computing. Well worth a watch if you are into this kind of thing…. Read more →
As some of you know, Flight Simulator and I have a long history…. Which included a break up right around the time Microsoft axed the team and I had a “bit of a rant” at Steve Ballmer at the MVP summit. Some of the team that remained on after, worked hard to try and build within the limits of… Read more →
About once a month I get this question in my inbox… Sometimes it also contains multiple swear words, but I’ll edit that here 🙂 “Nick. I am in the middle of an cut-over migration to Office 365. My onsite Microsoft Outlook 2013 client keeps connecting back to the in-house Exchange Server even though I have published the autodiscover record for… Read more →
My blog has always been over on msmvps.com but for a myriad of reasons, I am moving it here now. Its about time I gave this thing a facelift anyway! Thanks to Susan Bradley I also now have the majority of the old content, so all I need to figure out now is how to get my hands on the… Read more →
If you have nothing good to say, then say nothing at all. This has been true for anything other 140 characters for me for some time. I really have not had anything good about the subjects you might expect from me and therefore have kept quiet. But then, I rarely listened to my mother.. Microsoft have essentially killed the two… Read more →