Nov 09, 2020
What is the price of connectivity?
I’d like to relay an incident that occurred recently, while facilitating a course at New Horizons. I noted that some students seem to be checking on their mobiles quite [...]
Feb 19, 2021
PowerShell Profiles – Have it Your Way
Did you know that PowerShell straight out of the box can have not 1 but 8 different profiles (at last count)! These profiles are a feature of the hosting applications – [...]
Jan 21, 2021
Your Future in IT – A “Brave New World” for the IT Professional
I was reading an interesting article the other day called “Major Changes Coming from Microsoft Will Impact Your Career” by Jeffrey Schwartz, and it got me thinking about [...]
Dec 01, 2020
Using the Fluent API with Entity Framework
In a previous blog post we have seen how to use the code-first approach in the Entity Framework. In today's post, we will see how to map the entities to database [...]
Nov 12, 2020
Customise the navigation drop-down in SharePoint
Change the width of the top link bar navigation drop-down in SharePoint. When you have a sub-site under another sub-site, the top link bar will show you a small arrow [...]
Nov 12, 2020
From Rivals to Friends … The rise of a new behemoth – The Red Microsoft Hat.
Yes, our solar system is still heliocentric. Any number multiplied by zero still equals zero. NETFLIX still rocks. Most reality TV is still excruciatingly painful to [...]
Nov 05, 2020
What's new in Skype for Business
Skype for Business is the redesigned and rebranded version of Microsoft Lync. You will be amazed with the power and simplicity of Skype for Business where it is easy to [...]
Oct 29, 2020
What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015?
In today’s blog, I will talk about the new features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015. Accessing records using voice commands Now Cortana is tightly integrated with [...]
Oct 27, 2020
On the Checkout Option in SharePoint
The Checkout option in SharePoint 2010+ serves two purposes. It controls incrementation of versions It disallows concurrent editing of an [...]
Sep 29, 2020
Cascaded Dropdowns in Nintex Forms
Quite often in a form we need to populate a dropdown based on the value of another dropdown. For example we might need to select a value from a States dropdown after we [...]
Sep 25, 2020
Setting up your models in MVC
When we start creating MVC applications, one of the first steps is to create your models. These models are used as the entities we want to work with in our application [...]
Sep 10, 2020
Implementing paging easily
Nowadays when we create websites to represent services or products we need to include the correct media so that it can show case the product to its best. One way of [...]
Sep 01, 2020
Using the WebView Control in Windows Apps
Let's say you are developing a Windows Store App using XAML with C# but you need to display interactive HTML5 content as part of the overall user experience. In [...]
Aug 24, 2020
Multiple Desktops in Windows 10
Whilst support for "virtual" desktops has been around for a while, Microsoft hadn't made it a first-class member of the OS. Now, in Windows 10, you can easily create [...]
Aug 21, 2020
Implementing and administering AD RMS
Active directory Rights Management Service (RMS) is an information protection technology that can protect data while in transit or at rest. Using Rights Management [...]
Aug 17, 2020
Exchange Online Protection and Evolution
So, we all know that Monty Python loved spam, we all know that we hate receiving spam. On average, Microsoft block roughly 10,000,000 messages every single minute of [...]
Aug 06, 2020
"Hey, Cortana"
Cortana is the new voice activated personal assistant that comes with Windows 10. She is there to help make things easier for you and keep you up-to-date on the things [...]
Aug 04, 2020
The Many Flavours of Windows 10
OK so Windows 10 has finally been officially released, so what are we actually getting? As usual, Microsoft has released not just one Windows 10, but multiple different [...]
Jul 30, 2020
Introducing Windows 10!
It has finally arrived! Microsoft Windows 10 originally code-named ‘threshold’ is the next operating system from Microsoft. With this operating system, Microsoft aims to [...]
Jan 23, 2021
5 super cool technology gadgets from the past...
It's amazing how we accept things for the way they are these days. For example, we use the mouse and our mobile phones, without even thinking twice about their [...]
