TECH TIPS

Normally you do not need to be concerned about web site identifiers, these are the actual ID's that reference the web site to IIS. Normally we just use the web site description such as Default Web Site or in my case blog.crowe.co.nz or something similar. But if you...

Yesterday, I finished setting up a second instance of TFS 2005 so that I could test the upgrade to TFS 2008. I restored all the databases from the original TFS, ran the Tfs utility to rename the application tier and the data tier, connected with Visual Studios. Then...

I just tried this service and it works pretty well. You need to install a little application on both the server at home and the machine you are trying to connect from, but if you haven't tried it, give it a spin. The free version only allows for remote access while...

Go to Applications > Internet > Terminal Server Client to launch application. Important tip: Enter IP address (server name didn't seem to work) and select RDP as the protocol.

Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but it's easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, it's an essential thing to turn on. To get to the configuration page, you can either right-click the Computer icon...

You may have installed WSS 2.0 using the default configuration only to find out later that to use this for TFS 2005, you need to install it using Server Farm mode. When you use the Add or Remove Programs control panel to remove Windows SharePoint Services from a...