Heavy Soil

Although I’ve been working in IT for many years, networking hasn’t been my central focus. The places I worked with more complex networks tended to have dedicated network people. In other places where I have been responsible for the network, the setup has been relatively simple, or has had kit that has nice friendly GUI…

I have had the need recently to dual-boot two copies of Windows 10 on my laptop. It’s more complicated than it used to be, thanks to NVMe and Secure Boot. In my case, I want to have the default Windows install for my work, and a completely separate personal install, without the overheads of virtualisation.…

I got an email recently saying my Exchange SSL Certificate had been auto-renewed. That’s fine, it’s one of the services that GoDaddy do well. I use them for all my SSL certificate needs, but this is the first time I’ve had an auto-renewal. However, installing it wasn’t quite as easy as “auto-renewal” implies. When I…

I recently had to temporarily move to a spare iPhone from my main one, then back again following a repair and restore drama. Because I like to test the latest software where possible, I am part of the Apple beta program, so my phone was running iOS 11.4 beta 4. iCloud backups were turned on,…

I have an iPhone 6 Plus which was locked by a broken touch screen. Unlike the normal lockouts which expire, it was locked without a timeout. This takes 10 different failed passcode attempts in a short time. The screen was saying: iPhone is disabled connect to iTunes However, this isn’t useful advice at this stage.…

Getting Server Manager working for remote management of Windows Server 2008 R2

Getting Server Manager working for remote management of Windows Server 2008