Give them a reason to stay! Look at you. You’ve got people hanging out in your server and visitors checking it out regularly. I am just so proud of you. You’ve grown up so fast. Now, you gotta be active if you want to keep your fans engaged. Newton’s Third Law of Communities says “Your community gives back what you give to it.” You gotta give love to get love. What…
With Microsoft announcing plans to shutter its Live Mesh service in February, some users are freaking out because its replacement, the SkyDrive desktop application, lacks some useful features, including remote desktop. But remote desktop functionality is already built into . Here’s how to make it work. Note: There are two basic reasons why Live Mesh users use remote…
In addition to local development, Nuclide supports remote development. Using one of three authentication methods (Password, an SSH agent, or a private key), you can connect to a project on a remote machine. This project is then added to your Project Explorer’s File Tree as a remote project where development occurs just it would with a local project. Nuclide Server…
Over the past several months, there has been an uptick in cyber incident reports involving the exploitation of IP ports that are commonly used for remote access. Vulnerable ports are exposed to hackers who can easily find a point of entry and respond with ransomware attacks and other network intrusion activity. The New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration…
Check out How to Troubleshoot Connecting to the SQL Server Database Engine in the TechNet Wiki. Author Rick Byman takes you step-by-step though the troubleshooting process when you get the “Connect to Server” error. I strongly encourage you to bookmark this article and use it for the next time you see this type of error. Additionally, because it is a TechNet Wiki…
If you can t connect to a Windows virtual machine (VM), you can reset the local administrator password or reset the Remote Desktop service configuration. You can use either the Azure portal or the VM Access extension in Azure PowerShell to reset the password. If you are using PowerShell, make sure that you have the latest PowerShell module installed and configured…
If you have a problem connecting to a website, you may see error messages like Server Not Found . This article describes how to troubleshoot problems that cause this error. To begin, try opening a website in another browser (such as Internet ExplorerSafariEpiphany or Chromium). If neither Firefox nor your other browser can load websites, your problem is not in Firefox…
It’s the culmination of months of activity on a vital project. You have one week to create a “Packaging Design” document and send it to everyone in the company. To make it thorough and polished, it needs to go through several review cycles. So you have no time to reconcile assorted email attachments. There’s a much better way: safely share the document from OneDrive…
If you are a web developer, you are likely very familiar with the tools available to you when debugging a web page or web app in a desktop browser, but how do you debug when developing for a mobile device such as the iPad or iPhone? The answer is that you debug remotely, using the same tool as you would on desktop, except connected to your mobile device. If you are…
Over time, most database applications grow, become more complex, and need to support more users. At some point in the life of your Microsoft Office Access application, you might want to consider upsizing to it to a Microsoft SQL Server database to optimize performance, scalability, availability, security, reliability, and recoverability. About upsizing a Microsoft…
I needed some new speakers for my desktop computer system at home. Ive been tolerating JBL creature 2.1 system for a couple of years now and Id finally had enough. The JBLs suffered from a depressing lack of critical midrange detail. This, coupled with the fact that the kids now hog the main system in the front room, means that I cant get access to my iTunes library…
A local ISP hosts our SQL Server, and I haven t been able to see or connect to named instances running on the machine. I know that SQL Server 2 named instances don t use TCP/IP port 1433, and I ve verified that the TCP/IP ports that the SQL Server instances are using are open. Do you have any suggestions? A Many people know how to check which ports SQL Server instances…
