One of the interesting pieces of work we get involved in are rescue projects. Rescue projects can be thought of projects that aren’t delivering or won’t deliver either to timescales, feature requirements or quality. In a rescue project there are many areas that normally need addressing: Project Management, …

If you are in the BizTalk world, I would recommend reading the BizTalk Hotrod. it looks like Todd has stepped down from BizTalk Hotrod , he mentioned he was moving when we were at TechED US last year. Rajinder has taken over and it looks like he is off to a cracking start. Get it here b.

You may remember that I ended my previous post with about 1.6Gb free on the 8Gb SSD of the Mini 9 after installing Windows 7. I still needed to install Office 2007, or at the very least Word and Excel for the ‘book to be useful. I therefore rummaged out another 16Gb SD card and revisited my earlier vista post about …

There is a bit more information on the the Alt.Net conference now at http://www.altdotnetuknorth.info/ Registration will open next week at noon on Tuesday the 24th February.

In my previous post about getting Windows 7 onto the fantastic Dell Mini 9 I talked about solving things like the driver issues and antivirus. This time I’m going to cover how I installed Windows 7 onto the 8Gb SSD version of the Mini 9. Interestingly, Windows 7 will actually install in about 8Gb. However, when I tried …

We run a lot of virtual machines at Black Marble. Our virtual machines run on Hyper-V and we’ve got things setup so we can connect to them from desktop machines within Black Marble. I was a little perturbed therefore when I got the following error shown when I tried to connect to one of the virtual machines in use: …

On the same day as the Alt.Net event I am organising there is a community event at TVP 'WebDD'09 - With all the latest stuff from MIX 09'. We are spoilt, there is so much choice in the community events at this time of year

I am please to be able to announce that there will be an Alt.net Open Space Conference in Bradford on the 17/18th April this year. I had mentioned my intension of organising such an event at the last London conference, but it has taken a bit longer than expected to get sorted due to problems with getting the venue. The …

Note: The instruction below refer to Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 R2 has an 'allow spoofing' checkbox which should be used instead. When setting up NLB in a virtualised environment, there’s an extra step that you might need to take to get everything working that doesn’t seem to be mentioned very often. …

At todays Azure event I heard a new word for my occasional buzz word posts. Marketechture - an architecture designed by marketing for use in Powerpoint