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Each device on your network has a private IP address only seen by other devices on the local network. But your ISP assigns you a public IP address that other devices on the Internet can see. Here’s how that works and how you can find those IP addresses. An IP...

This is one of those silly little things that comes along every so often just to mess with your head, and to cause some issues. Of course it has to happen at a time when you really want to connect to the remote machine and do some work. This week...

Today, developers can use SQL Server in a variety of environments including on-premises, in datacenters, in virtual machines, in clouds such as Azure, AWS and Google, and also as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering with Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse. We recently announced SQL Server...

In this very short video, I walk you through the step by step process of opening the 1433 firewall port for SQL Server. I am doing it because I am setting up a new System Center Operations manager server but the procedures would be the same for any other application...

Remote Desktop Connection is a Windows 7 feature that allows you to access the files and programs on one computer through another computer. This is useful for Windows users with more than one computer. If you have a work laptop and personal computer, you can access your work laptop at...

When you have to copy files from one Mac to another, make big files available to others, or get files from your company’s shared volumes, you need to connect to a server. It may be a file server, a NAS (network-attached storage device), or just another Mac on your network....

Step-by-step instructions for creating a database connection to a remote SQL Server Database, using Visual Web Developer. Go to the View menu item and select Database Explorer. Depending on how you have your Visual Web Developer interface setup, go to the Solution Explorer, and at the bottom you will see...

A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. The computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. These interconnections are made up of telecommunication network technologies, based on physically wired, optical, and wireless radio-frequency methods that may be arranged in a variety of network topologies. The nodes of a...

IP VPN over Internet vs MPLS, there’s a price for everything in this world, and Internet based IP VPNs are no exception. While IP VPNs over Internet are a cheaper alternative to any MPLS network, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re for everyone, as customer requirements always vary. In this posting,...

On the Start menu, choose All Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server and then click SQL Server Configuration Manager. Optionally, you can open Computer Manager by right-clicking My Computer and choosing Manage. In Computer Management, expand Services and Applications, expand SQL Server Configuration Manager. Expand SQL Server Network Configuration, and...