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Discovering Autism with Microsoft Surface
I met Freena Eijffinger again at this year’s at TechEd Berlin after doing some cartons for her film...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/22/2010
SCE Sunday part 5 – Monitoring
In part 5 of my tour of System Center Essentials 2010 , I have done a tour of monitoring: One thing...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/21/2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory–ADAC
TIn the last in my “What’s new in active directory in Windows Server 2008 R2” mini series I wanted...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/20/2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory–Recycle Bin
With Recycle Bin now available I may now be able to get a job in Active Directory, as it...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/19/2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory - Offline Domain Join
I was in Leeds yesterday at the Virtual machine User Group.. Alan and I were handing out a few...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/17/2010
SCE Sunday part 4 – Computer Administration
If you are following this series especially on RSS, I must apologise as I got the order of the...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/14/2010
TechEd Berlin Day 1
Simon and i are at TechEd Berlin all week, his post on the keynote is here. I didn’t get to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/10/2010
Phone 7
I wanted to wait until I had my own production windows phone 7 device before posting about it partly...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/08/2010
SCE Sunday part 3 – Post setup Administration
In part 3 of my tour of System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) , I have simply left SCE to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/07/2010
Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job
I have spent the day dug in at the Cabinet War Rooms in London for Inframon’s annual War on Cost...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/06/2010
SQL Server spatial stuff on Codeplex
The net is awash with more reruns than Dave and so I try and be brutal about not doing too much...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/28/2010
A cloudy day at EZE IT
I got asked to do a 40 minute slot on Virtualisation and cloud at a partner event to day run by...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/27/2010
Why I use IE9
The obvious answer to this question is I am an evangelist who works fro Microsoft and while that is...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/25/2010
SCE Sunday part 2 – configuration
Last week I showed you how to install System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) and this week I want to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/24/2010
War on Cost 2010
I used to talk to a number of universities about business intelligence, balanced scorecards et al. I...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/22/2010
Microsoft Support Calls
3 basic life skills: You don’t give your car keys or house keys to strangers. You only trust...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/19/2010
SCE Sunday - part 1 installation
Years ago I spent many a happy Sunday afternoon watching the SKI Sunday on the off chance a hapless...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/17/2010
Desktop Security - one size doesn’t fit all
If you follow this blog you’ll realise that every couple of weeks I mention TechNet ON. This one...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/14/2010
Business Intelligence & Cognitive Psychology
One of the most interesting session at the recent SQL Bits 7 was Jen Stirrup’s talk on use of charts...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/13/2010
What Kind of MUG are you?
Whether your thing is windows management or virtual machines there’s interesting user group...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/07/2010
Metadata Databases & System Center Essentials 2010
One of the reasons SQL server can spread through your organisation is that it underpins so many...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/07/2010
Internet Safety for adults
I did an internet safety presentation to the association for retired police officers on Friday, and...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/06/2010
Microsoft is all in
When Steve Ballmer says “We’re all in the cloud” this should be viewed in the same way as...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/05/2010
Content is King?
Many of us in the technical world seem to get caught up in the devices we use rather than what we...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/28/2010
Woodland Trust Part 3–the New Building
In my continuing saga on the Woodland Trust I was lucky enough to go to the formal opening of their...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/27/2010
A worked example of using spatial and olap data in Reporting Services part 2
Following on from my my post on Monday I wanted to show you how to link reports together using the...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/24/2010
The (IT Professional) Apprentice
The old Catch 22 situation of not having experience nor having anyone who is wiling to provide that...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/23/2010
3 clouds and a screen
No I haven’t got the numbers the wrong way round, the three clouds I am referring to are the three...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/22/2010
A worked example of using spatial and olap data in Reporting Services
In my last post I went through a possible approach for showing spatial and olap data that the RSPB...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/20/2010
Spatial and OLAP data in Reporting Services
I spent a very interesting afternoon last week with the IT team at the RSPB to explore what they...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/17/2010
Back Soon
I am out of the office at the moment, but my spies tell me the IE9 beta is here. I’ll be doing a bit...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/15/2010
Remote desktop and VDI
In my post yesterday I showed I gave you an introduction to Remote Desktop Services, today I want to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/08/2010
An introduction to Remote Desktop Services options
I am sometimes confused when things get renamed, but it made a lot of sense for Microsoft to ...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/07/2010
Windows 7 for friends and family
It’s not always Microsoft’s fault… For the last month or so, my mum’s Asus Revo mini desktop PC...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/06/2010
IT Professional vNext
I recently interviewed one of our interns, Jonathan Lickiss (here), about his aspirations to be an...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/03/2010
SQL Server Reporting Services interop part 2
I forgot one thing on my recent post on Reporting services interop, Report Builder. What is...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/02/2010
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, mixing Hyper-V and other applications in Windows Server
I have got the highest respect for Hyper-V. It’s simple to use I don’t need to learn any new...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/01/2010
SQL Server Redundancy
When I saw SQL Server redundancy on a recent internal e-mail I wondered if it was about a...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/31/2010
Windows 7 the Presenter’s friend
I think it takes a lot of effort and courage to stand up in front of an audience and give a...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/27/2010
ROLAP dead but not forgotten
With a catchy name like Relational On Line Analytical Processing, is it any wonder that this...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/24/2010
SQL Server Reporting Services interop
SQL Server Reporting Services is nearly ubiquitous as SQL Server itself, it is in nearly all...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/23/2010
SQL Nugget - Dates are illogical
Whether I am reading Chocky by John Wyndham or the 12 Caesers by Suetonius the illogical nature of a...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/19/2010
The curious case of the Trusted Protection Module
I am keen on insurance and I am more interested in the claims process when things do go wrong, than...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/19/2010
A quick word on Remote Desktop for demos
I use Remote Desktop a lot for my demos and whether this is in person or when making videos this...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/17/2010
Work Life Balance in Office
For me the office is Microsoft Office as my litmus test for whether I am working or not is what I am...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/16/2010